GUIDANCE FOR THE SOUL TO CHOOSE NEXT BIRTH WISELY

 


SUMMARY OF GARUD PURAAN

GUIDANCE FOR THE SOUL TO CHOOSE NEXT BIRTH WISELY

We have been listening to stories about SWARAG (Heaven)and NARAK (Hell)since childhood, I used to think these hell or heaven are some institutes constructed somewhere up in the sky or down under the earth, where one room is having boiling oil, the other having hot poles, one room for hitting, a room full of snakes and so on.

For satisfying my curiosity I tried to understand everything. Then I came to know that these are metaphorical, just to make people understand. Not everything is physical or geographical in this world. A hell or heaven on this earth, is a state of mind, a state of surroundings or a place where you are living or are forced to live in. For example, People living in brothels, mental asylums and places where human slaves live are an example of hell, no one wants to stay there, but one has to. People fighting with one another, one killing the other person or persons is examples of hell.

Imagine a place where one has to live: eat, sleep and defecate at the same place, we have not seen hell as such but the Torture room in police station is not less than a hell. We can see most of the punishments described in Garud puraan are executed in the police stations. Jails are a perfect example of hell, we can think and collect in memory so many places around us which are a hell. A person who is depressed a lot, staying in a very untidy home is a perfect example of hell.

Here I would like to add, that I am not a judge here but from my study on mental status of these people, their relation with certain planets and the energy of the place they are living in, I take this opportunity to add that this is mostly the result of their unfulfilled and subsided desires (Vasans)which do not let them come out of this hell. Even when we try to help them they deny the help and act adversely.           

We can see everything written in these 28 Narak is occurring around us. One can suffer from any punishment in any of 84 lakh species; it is not that only human beings are to be punished. In Garuda Puraan it is written as Jeevatma, so one can suffer in any species, it can be fish, sheep, deer, chicken, turkey or lion.

We always say “pata nahi kaun se karmo ki saza mili hai”, we have to suffer at any time or any place, but surely need to suffer.

What I could understand is that, this is not the end of a journey of life, but GARUD PURAAN is a guide to give path to a new life. As nothing can be repaired while going to past, but we can transform our future if we purify our mind and soul.  Our sacred books teach us a lot about life and how to live without hurting someone.  The type of punishments written is the consequences one has to go through if some wrong deeds are done. Any one going out of syllabus of his own nature or we can say disturbing his default setting has to suffer.

HEAVEN is a place or a situation in which one stays happy. Sometimes a person is always happy with whatever he has been provided. He is happy without any reason. He has reached a stage of fulfilment of desires, which is again a state of mind. One has to experience the result of his Karma on this earth, if he has done good to others then he is in a state of heaven and if someone cheats others, kills someone, hurt someone then he is surely going to be punished by the universe.

The need of the literature is to guide people that we should maintain the law and order of the universe as well as the society, so some rules are to be followed. Every institute need some rules to maintain discipline, same way our huge universe also need some rules. But, there are always some people who have negative approach to everything, they do not want to follow rules. Since childhood, we have been listening to there has always been a fight between GODS (Devta)and DEMONS(Asura).

When a person accumulates negative karma, he has to suffer in hell. Every Karma generates a positive or negative impact on the universe and the people living here directly or indirectly. E.g. killing one or two fishes for the sake of food is not a problem, problem is when we accumulate. Same way killing animals for sake of your luxury and fashion are not good for the ecology, the greed of earning from them is a problem. I have never seen a bird eating more than his capacity. They have faith on god that I will get it tomorrow also. Human are the most selfish who have disturbed every food chain and ecosystem. It is not that we need something and we cannot take it from mother earth, but the greed (vasana) of accumulating it for the sake of self-interest make it a sin and then we has to suffer consequences.

Now the universe has started draining from human. Every now and then new diseases erupt and kill millions of people. Mountains are getting disturbed, the solar system has been disturbed a lot, rise in temperature and melting of glaciers is an example. Life on earth has begun so many times and vanished many times. We read about so many civilisations from our past and it will continue as it is…..

Dr. inderjit kaur

 

 

 

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