Most people feel that reincarnation, even if it is a reality, has little or no relevance to their lives. And even most of those interested in reincarnation study it out of idle curiosity, treating it as a mysterious subject meant for titillating their mind and intellect. But reincarnation has a great and immediate relevance to our lives.
Have you seen poor goats, standing in a queue in a slaughterhouse, being chopped one after another. Though these goats are about to be killed, they are satisfied simply with a little green grass being fed to them. .
Similarly, the whole world is like a slaughterhouse where everyone is being killed one after another. Yet, like the foolish goats, most people get intoxicated simply by getting a little sense gratification, and do not think about how to escape and go beyond their impending death. They pay no heed to the spiritualists.
Only an intelligent person tries to understand the meaning of life by asking questions like – If reincarnation is a reality, can I decide my future body? And most importantly, if I am eternal, do I have to keep dying and being reborn again and again, or can I attain eternal life? If yes, how?
Perhaps one day scientific investigation will come up with answers to these questions. Isn’t there any immediately available way to know the truth, and to avoid all this suffering? There is.
Suppose you are faced with an unfamiliar but complex machine. You can observe it and try to figure out how it works. But the sure way to understand the machine is to learn about it from the person who built it.
Similarly the vast universe around us is like a massive machine. The direct way to understand the machinery of the universe - including the subtle mechanism of reincarnation - is to learn about it from the person behind it - God. One should therefore learn the truth from the authorized scriptures, which are directly the word of God.
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