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My dear friends and like minded persons,

 

Most of you are in touch with me, perhaps for over three decades and receiving

my mails/news from time to time on different subjects. I really do not know

what messages I could convey and in what way they are helpful to most of you in

day to day life or for self realization. One of my friend has put me a question

which is reproduced hereunder and may I request you to kindly through some

attention and support me to answer the gentleman in a convincing manner?.

 

I have always wondered how the soul begins its journey on this planet (of course

keeping in mind at the background about the Maaya that always explains this

universe). I have tried to explore for a scientific Mechanism and fuse it with

our philosophy.

 

Sperm and ovum both are living cells, but, do not have their own souls because

they represent two different individuals. When they fuse and form the zygote

that represents the third individual. I suppose a soul enters that zygote as

soon as it is formed by fertilization. How that soul enters that zygote, who

determines which soul has to enter that Zygote and according to what priorities

is a mystery. Probably, millions of souls would be waiting to take birth to

undergo the results of their praarabdha karma. Those souls which have completed

their karma attain moksha or nirvaana.

 

Probably, there is a natural order which is determined and set by the almighty

that keeps functioning in a self regulated fashion. Probably, these waiting

souls have to follow a discipline in taking rebirths and if they violate the

discipline or the order (I do not know if this happens), then, they face

consequences. I am inclined to think this way when I look at the millions of

spontaneous miscarriages and congenital Abnormalities, neonatal and childhood

deaths that take place in this world. The other example is of those one or two

survivors in earthquakes or other such calamities where hundreds and thousands

perish.

 

I have also wondered how some people can remember about their previous births.

I think if a soul enters a zygote almost immediately (or within a short

interval) after it has exited a mortal body, probably, it can remember the

previous birth. That is a very difficult thing because we can not remember what

we have eaten only three days ago! But, we can Remember certain incidences from

our childhood vividly and there must be a mechanism. Buddha said the bundle of

memories(soul according to Hindu philosophy) keeps acquiring new memories and

keeps taking births and that probably explains how a soul can remember the

past(although we do not still know the precise mechanism).

 

Probably, the day may not be very far off, when with the help of the genes; we

may be able to predict even the future of an individual (not just the medical

facts). But, that may still not solve the mystery of Our life.

 

I look forward to your reply eagerly when I may sum them up and reproduce the

text for your convenient reading.

 

Affly Yours HARA HARA MAHADEVA

DR P V SESHA SAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI

13th July 2006