🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 8🌀
~ The Veils Of Misery ~
🌀DAY - 68🌀
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" सतिमुले तद्धिपाको जात्यायुॅभोगः "
" Sati mole tadwipaako jaatyaayurbhoigaaha "
Patanjali explains a little more about the genesis, and how we gain our birth. As long as this root is there, the fruit of its tree will grow again and again.
जात्यायुॅभोगः Jaati means the body in which there is birth. The birth may be as a chicken, or a monkey, or a human - or a male or a female. Your birth and the length of your life is determined. What you will get in your life, your enjoyments or suffering are also determined. Why is someone born in Ethiopia and someone else in Switzerland? Why is one person born in one place and another is born somewhere else? Why is one person miserable? Why is another, who has done nothing wrong, suffering? No logic can give you any understanding or explanation.
Patanjali had an insight into this phenomenon. He said the current birth of a person is due to past karmas - जात्यायुॅभोगः It comes to you in different forms. If a person dies with memories of chicken and if the strongest impression at the moment of death was chicken, he will be reborn as one. The strongest impression in the mind at the time of death persists. At night, just before going to bed, think of something. Think very strongly about it. And as soon as you wake up in the morning, that will be your first thought. And at night, it will be dreamt of, too. And if you practice it for some time you will assume those qualities in you. You may think that, as soon as you wake up, you should shake your head like your dog. In six months, you will begin to do it and it will be out of control because it influences you so deeply; because that karma, that impression has become so strong. If you keep watching a dog and that image keep coming in your mind all the time. Your mind and consciousness gets stucked into that type of body when you die. So it is said that last days of life are much more important than the whole life.
There are so many stories in India to emphasize this. Usually an old man is very attached to his children. They name their children after the various gods.
There is a story about a King Ajamila. Ajamila was a king who was an atheist to his birth. At the last moment when he was dying, he thought of his son and called out for him. His son's name was Narayana. It seems God thought he was being called, so Narayana came and liberated him. It is an exaggerated way to say that the last impression carries much weight.
There is a similar story about a saint who was very enlightened. One day, he was meditating on the bank of a river which was in flood. He saw a baby deer being carried away in the flood. So he jumped in and saved it, like any human would do. He bandaged its wounds and cared for it. He got very attached to it. And it is said that after he died he became a deer in his next birth. It is said that it is almost impossible for a liberated man to go back into an animal body. This example is quoted just to indicate that the last impression is very important. This happens when you go to sleep. If children see horror movies before going to bed at night, they have nightmares. How do you get rid of this?
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