Day 13
Our life is not just 60, 70, 80, 90 years. Our life is eternal. You have heard this. Whether it comes to our experience or not is another question. But at least you have heard about it. Have you ever thought about people who have died and gone?
Those people who have been living, walking, talking, conversing with you, what happened to them? They have gone suddenly. Where did they go? If life is imperishable, where did they go? Where will I go after another 40-50 years? Is life so impermanent?
We have heard "I am permanent". "I am there forever". If I have been forever, I should know what I was before and what I will be in the future. Life is not limited to just 80-100 years. It is much older than the sun, moon and all the planets around us.
Our brain is just a frequency analyser. Our brain is tuned to one frequency and so it is able to receive only this input. People with schizophrenia, with bipolar disorder, who are considered mentally ill by doctors, have access to another world, another reality.
We say they are hallucinating and we label them. But today scientists have started walking on parapsychology, almost every big institution in the world has a parapsychology department. They are probing into the existence of the previous birth. 50, 60, 100 years ago it was a myth but today, past life regression is a therapy.
Now nobody questions past or future lives. This question is not asked anymore. If someone asks, they are not well informed. Well-informed people today have come to the acceptance, which this country or the ancient people in the world have been saying that life is eternal.
So, without self knowledge what happens to these people? Only a few people come to this self knowledge or ask a question "What is the purpose of this life?" What about the billions of other people who are living on this planet? What happens to them?
The Upanishad says they are in their world, which has no centre. Asurya means a person who has no centre, no direction in life, no vision.
