Jain Center of America NY 2005 06 Pratishtha

SR No.: 528692
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Center of America NY
Publisher: USA Jain Center America NY
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 190
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, USA_Souvenir Jain Center NY New York, & USA
File Size: 14 MB

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previous life and that is why you do not accept it as a fact; then I ask you, “Do you remember the fact that you stayed in the womb of your mother?" Were you not delivered from the womb? Or where you dropped here on the earth from above?
All of us, who are born, are delivered from the mother's womb. If a man could remember what he experienced in the mother's womb, he would not choose to return to the same place. But he forgets all this and takes care of his new life. Our life is like a bridge connecting both the banks of a river. One of them is birth and the other is death. In fact, there is no distinction between the two. One for the entry and the other for the exit. We celebrate birth and subsequent birth dates with festivals and music, and we regret and lament after death for days together. These two, passion and prejudice are our great enemies which keep us wandering in this world through series of death and birth.
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Let us discuss about the argument of remembrance. A man does not remember the incidents of his life, when he was two years old. It does not mean that this stage of childhood did not exist. A child in the womb has no company. Still among the four siblings, one is cruel, the other is kind, the third is greedy and the fourth is generous. They bear very often quite contrary nature to that of their parents. Why? The only answer is that the child has entered this world with good and bad karmas of his previous births. When a soul transmigrates from one body to the other, he carries along with him two types of bodies called Taijas and karman. These bodies are very subtle and no one can obstruct their path. Therefore, they accompany the soul everywhere, until the soul is liberated.
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Now let us consider the actual experience of human beings in this connection. You might have read in the newspaper that some people had the knowledge of their past lives. Let me quote a case which I read in the Indian newspaper. In the village Chanasma near Patan (India) one boy remembered his past birth. He used to say, “I stayed in a such and such locality in Patan in my previous life. My name in the past life was Kevalchand". For verification, the boy was brought over to Patan and he led the people to his house by the road he claimed to remember. He identified his house of the previous life. He pointed out many secret matters and could recognize his grandson Manilal. Thus, actual experience also supports the contention of rebirth which is established beyond doubt.
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