Dr. Datta Harkare
Indian texts such as Upanishads, Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Gita etc. have written extensively on the world after death and rebirth.
On birth, death, rebirth, our ancient sages have repeatedly written mystical knowledge based on self-experience. Since the ancient times were the Vedic period, the rituals of this knowledge were regularly performed on the Vedic human beings. According to this, human beings also had divine experience of this in the form of Sadhana. However, in the later period, human beings gradually started to ignore the Yog-sadhana and today it is a situation that humans not only forgot the Yog-sadhana but also started treating this Indian divine knowledge as a myth. Some cultures are trying to erase this Indian knowledge. It is the duty of every Indian to strongly oppose such non-Vedic cultures and bring Indian knowledge back to the world.
Yogi Manohar, the great yogi of the 20th century, has once again brought this entire Indian knowledge to light through his many books. An attempt is made to present his own thought system through this article. While narrating the Gita to Arjuna, God gave the knowledge of the entire universe. In it, he explains the mystery of birth, death and rebirth, explaining why we take birth again and again in this world.
"बहुनि में व्यतितानी जन्मानि तव चार्जुन तान्यहं वेद सर्वाणि , न त्वं वेत्थ परंतप"
Of course, O Arjuna, you and I have taken many births before this. You don't remember them but I do. Here comes the secret of birth, death and rebirth. According to the deeds of a man he gets speed after death and according to that speed he knows that he will be liberated or he is reborn! Gita tells about that speed and that experience:
"धूमो रात्रिस्तथा कृष्ण: षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम तत्र चांद्रमसं ज्योतिर्योगी प्राप्य निवर्तते"
Of course - everyone has some mystical experience after death. Those who after death see smoke and darkness everywhere and see light like moon somewhere far away, have to be born again. This is called Dakshinayana.
Also about Uttarayana the Gita says:
"अग्निर्ज्योतिरह: शुक्ल: षण्मासा उत्तरा यणम तत्र प्रयाता गच्छंती ब्रह्म ब्रह्मविदो जन:"
Of course - those who after death see Jyoti Jyoti and Prakash only Prakash everywhere are not born again. They themselves become Brahmamaya and become liberated. This is called Uttarayana.
This means that after death there are only two motions. Shukla speed and Krishna speed! Shukla gati means light i.e. liberation and Krishna gati means darkness i.e. rebirth! So the Gita says:
"शुक्ल कृष्ण गती ह्येते जगत: शाश्वते मते एकया यातत्यनावृत्ति मन्यया वर्तते पुनः"
After death there is a vast universe. Death does not mean that everything is over. At death this body dies and a subtle body emerges from the body called Lingadeha or Jivatma. How is this soul? Gita says:
"नैनं छिंदन्ति शस्राणि नैनं दहती पावक: न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुत:"
Of course - Jivatma or Lingadeha is a transparent entity which cannot be cut by weapons, which cannot be burnt by fire, which cannot be soaked by water and which cannot be dried by air! This soul can move anywhere in the entire universe in just a moment just by mental speed. In a moment on Earth, in a moment on the Moon, Mars can go anywhere. Because there is no body. After death, this soul remains in space for some time according to its karma, and then it is drawn from us into the womb of a mother, in the womb of such a mother, where a fetus is formed, a body is formed. In the sixth to seventh month of the pregnant mother when the fetus is fully developed, this soul is drawn very rapidly along with the sixth sense, the mind.
"मन: षष्ठाणिंद्रियाणी प्रकृती स्थानिं कर्षति"
After being drawn into the mother's womb in this way, the soul gets that new body and then the fetus comes out of the mother's womb after two to three months. This is the rebirth of that soul. All this is very divine, mystical and profound science. Gita says:
"वासासि जिर्णानि यथा विहाय , नवानि गृहणाति नरोपराणी तथा शरीराणि विहाय , जिर्णान्यान्यानि संयाति नवानि देही"
In other words, just as a person puts on a new garment after discarding the old one, so this soul discards the old useless body and holds a new body. This is called reincarnation. This is the great theory of reincarnation told by the Gita!
Even this great scientific theory of reincarnation is being forgotten by man today due to his ignorance and ill will. Due to the frequent false propaganda of some non-Vedic cultures, man today tries to understand this as false concept. But Gita is the root of all scriptures, the basis of all scriptures. Then how can this theory of Bhagavadgita be false? It is very true, completely scientific. A theory in India goes to the foreign country, the scientists there do research and prove it, and then the people of India start believing it to be true. How unfortunate this is for India.
Nowadays the unfortunate question "Is reincarnation real" is being asked by the new generation and some Indians too. What is more unfortunate than to falsify our own Indian knowledge? Other atheist cultures are ready to erase this divine knowledge of India. Do you want to support them?
Rebirth is a pure scientific and eternal truth that depends on karma. Good karma means good birth and bad karma means bad rebirth! If a person remembers this principle, good deeds will be done by him. Because there will be a restraint on him, there will be a curb. Otherwise, if we consider that there is no such thing as rebirth, human beings will be free to commit evil deeds. If there is no reincarnation etc., then how do you do this karma, because of the feeling that who is going to watch (no one), more bad deeds will be done by him than good deeds. But if he remembers the connection between rebirth and karma, he will remember that if he wants to have a beautiful rebirth as "I will be beautiful", then I will do good karma. With this spirit only good deeds will be done by him. This good deed will give him a good rebirth. That is why the theory of reincarnation stated in Gita, Upanishads etc. is a very scientific theory and if a human lives his life according to it, he will attain salvation. The Gita Upanishads are repositories of knowledge and have been composed for the welfare of the entire human society.