TRANSMIGRATION

Lord Krishna unveils the secret of self soul attaining different bodies in eternal transmigration cycle.

Once an eternal self soul identifies itself with any mode of material nature, it walks into trap of transmigration.

The entire divine play is that of Supreme Consciousness who is seated in the hearts of all beings as their witness.

Krishna tells in chapter thirteen of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:

parkritam    purusham    ch vidhianadi ubhavapi I

vikaranshch guranshch vidhi parkritisambhwan II

karyakarankartitve         hetur   pakritiruchayae I

pursha sukhdukhanam bhoktritve heturuchayte II

purshah parkritstho hi bhunkte parikirtijan gurhan I

karnam   gurh   sagoas sadasad  yonijanamasu II (13.19-21)

Material Nature (Parkriti) and Eternal Nature (purush) know both these as beginning less. Superimpositions and three modes are born of this Material Nature (Parkriti).

Material Nature (Parkriti) is said to be responsible for bringing forth the evolutes and the instruments; while the Eternal Nature (individual self soul) is said to be the enjoyer or sufferer having undergone the experience of joys and sorrows.

Only the Pursha (Eternal Nature) situated in the Parkriti (Material Nature) sense objects- of the three gunas evolved from Parkriti and it is this contact with these three gunas that is responsible for the birth of an embodiment as per the quantum of attachment with the three evolutes.

Material illusion and Lord are so interconnected that it is not possible to differentiate them.

As body, mind, senses (Material Nature) and eternal soul

are said to be distinct from each other, yet ordinarily an ignorant person cannot see the difference.

Since the illusion is the power of all mighty himself, he cannot be seen different from it.

But the Material Nature is manifest and is visible and invisible too. All the manifestation, one sees all around is nothing but an illusion.

The Parkriti manifests the   equilibrium of its gunas in projection of this universe.

Of this universe, the Parkriti transforms into causes and effects, assumed through these gunas, the condition of such modification.

But the Pursha, unmodified merely looks on. The consciousness in being is onlooker. All actions and reactions are resultant of resultant of three modes of material nature.

Since the self is the source of every thing. Material Nature working in    its direction, always is blissful and continues its play with the Parkriti.

He is beyond the world, yet he holds the worlds by entering into them. He transcends time, becomes time. Being infinite, he shines as finite, even being formless assumes forms.

He is one and single, he is neither held nor holder, these are all names 

The self is the consciousness and it consists of pure consciousness alone, full bliss.

This consciousness in creatures have never done any deed yet its identification with the sense objects, the resultant of the churning of three gunas of Parkriti put this Pursha in the circle of birth and death.

But in these three stanzas, the cycle of birth and death has been explained by Lord Krishna.

The accumulation of past deeds decides nature of species.

Actually onlooker being the part and parcel of the same super consciousness has never been a subject of decay nor now it is, nor will it ever become so.

Embodiment decays whenever consciousness departs from it. The attachment or identification of self/soul./finite with the infinite is the root cause of incarnation again and again

Lord Krishna explains in following verses of chapter two as to how the self soul changes bodies:

Nainam chhindanti shastrarhi

                                             nainam dahati pavakah I

Na chainam kaladyantiapo

                                             na shoshayati marutah II

Achhedyoayamadahyoayam

                           akaledyoashoshay ev ch I

Nityah sarvgatah

                     sathurachaloayam sanatanah II (2..23-24)

Weapons cannot cut it, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it nor can air dry it.

Soul is incapable of being cut; it is fire proof, un receptive of water and undriable as well.

This soul is eternal, omnipresent, immovable, constant and ever lasting.

The self can not be wounded by weapons, burnt by fire, moistened by water or blown away by air.

Soul is eternal, omnipresent, immovable, constant and everlasting.

The inanimate nature consisting of ether, earth, air, fire, water, mind, intellect and ego can not affect its cause ‘the self.

Any weapon, fire element, water element, wind are form of material nature.

Consciousness is beyond their reach.

These elements are empowered by the presence of self i.e. consciousness or a living entity.

A dead wood cannot affect the self soul. Omnipresent, supreme, constant, everlasting Supreme Soul is all bliss and sublime. Same present in every being.

Self Soul is made to change bodies as per karmic reactions being encaged by illusory power of Lord Krishna:

   Vasansi  jirnani yatha vihai

                                             navani gerahrhati naroaprarhi I

Tatha sharirarhi vihaye

 

                        jirarhanianyani sanyati navani dehi II (2.22)

As a man shedding old clothes, wears new one, like wise the embodied soul, casting off warn-out bodies, enters into new one.

This is eternal message for mankind whereby Lord assures the eternity of soul which is consciousness.

Living entity, consciousness, that is spirit, (self soul) never ends, it only changes bodies that too not as per its desire and wish but as per its quantum of attachment with each of three modes of material nature.

Due to its attachment and identification with particular act and modification of embodiment caused by nature, it binds the self effulgent soul.

It attains body after body till it realizes itself to be eternal self soul. Soul is an eternal fragment of supreme eternal self. (15.7)

Soul is beyond material existence and decay, life and death, never changing, timeless, beyond the reach of qualities of nature.

It binds itself like a monkey putting its hand in a bottle or a pot having squeezed entry hole (specially made by monkey catchers to catch monkeys) at neck to pick up small quantity of grams kept in it, to catch it.

But after laying hand on grams, it grabs some of them in its fist, tying to free its hand from instrument.   By not unfolding its fist and being caught in trap of monkey catcher.

This is the material situation of the self soul. Despite being free it is tying itself with all non existing dreamlike material relations.

It is so easy to realize yourself.

Separate your self from body and its relations, mind, senses with help of analyzing intellect.

Every verse of this text is message for salvation.

It is message of Supreme Divine spirit.

One may ask how to separate from body. The answer is simple. As you identified yourself with material body, so you have to identify yourself with the spirit, a servitor of Lord.