When trying to understand PLR (past life Regression) Buddha’s journey to enlightenment can answer some questions. Because it was disease and death which prompted the prince to forsake all the luxuries of the palace. Life was much more than life itself! There was a deeper truth, a truth most of us shy away from.
King Gautam Siddharth despite his apparently complete and fulfilling life continued to feel the lack. He did not stop till he did not have his answers, wandering about in search of his answers, without food and water. The desire was so overpowering, nothing else mattered nor made sense.
The search shifted from external to the internal. When he realized that everything is within him and there is nowhere to search, undeterred he dived within himself, plunged in again and again peeling the layers. Sitting under the famous Bodhi tree, he waited, patiently, day after day, night after night. He sat there with this determination, "Either I must see the ultimate nature of my existence now, or I will sit here and die. I will not open my eyes till I know this."
The misconceptions or fears attached to the topic of dying, and past life stem from the lack of awareness. Also, the fact that when one is busy trying to build a life, to think or prepare for death seems a little morbid! I have not been educated to think of death as the beginning of a new life. In fact, the fear of death is instilled in me. I am encouraged to tick the right boxes, complete my pending tasks, because death is end of life, and not ‘beginning of a new life’ the way Tibetan monks or PLR practitioners want us to think!
If we were a little better educated about karmic laws, cycle of life, death and rebirth, and how Nature looks to balance we would live more consciously, maybe? The fact that each lifetime is a chance to improve, to pay off a debt needs to be taught to us. Every life can be lived optimally keeping the focus on the real goal, and the attempt to achieve this real goal is an ongoing one.
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