During the holidays, I finished reading the five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom and quite enjoyed it. I'm to keen to view the movie version that was released in 2005 and starred Jon Voight as Eddie, the central character who dies and meets these five people in heaven who explain certain things about his former life. They have all touched his life in some way although he only knew two of the people directly. There's been lots of movies made about the after-life over the years. I watched recently relaeased one tonight called Passengers starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. I found it very moving. Books and movies like this attempt in different ways to depict the experiences that a suddenly discarnate consciousness undergoes in the immediate after-death state. A little research in Lord Meher about sudden death turned up this interesting quote from Meher Baba:
If a person dies by a sudden accident before his natural death, he immediately takes birth again and completes the remaining time of his past life, after which he dies. Some live for one, two, three, four or five years; and after finishing the remaining period of their past life, they take another body according to the sanskaras of the life which ended suddenly by accidental death. However, they cannot live longer than it takes to complete this remaining time. This is why some children die – some in a few days, some in a few months, and some after a few years. Generally, children up to the age of seven do not incur sanskaras. Their life until seven years of age is passed through according to, and depending on, the push of the sanskaras in their previous life. They are happy or miserable in accordance with the push being smooth or violent.
This makes perfect sense when you think about it. For example, in the tsunami that devastated Aceh in Indonesia, the lives of at least 120,000 people were suddenly expunged in a matter of minutes. It would be unlikely that all these people had simultaneously worked out their sanskaras and were ready for their natural death. However, I found another reference that suggests that this unlikely gathering of ill-fated individuals does indeed take place.
God is not kind, he is the ocean of mercy. But it is all according to law. And law is not complicated, it is simple. You sow a seed, you water it, you have a plant that grows - it is so simple. Law gives you all this from one seed, because all this was latent in the seed. Law deals individually, and also in multitudes of the same type. Your taking birth at a certain time, your giving up the body at a certain time, is all according to law, which shapes your actions. You are not responsible. But what about those who all die at one and the same moment, like thousands in an earthquake? Law gathers all of the similar types in one country, and ends it in one time.
I suspect that the majority of those who die in natural disasters have been gathered in the one place by the Law of Karma but a minority do die before their appointed time simply because of the indiscriminate nature of the disaster.
If a person dies by a sudden accident before his natural death, he immediately takes birth again and completes the remaining time of his past life, after which he dies. Some live for one, two, three, four or five years; and after finishing the remaining period of their past life, they take another body according to the sanskaras of the life which ended suddenly by accidental death. However, they cannot live longer than it takes to complete this remaining time. This is why some children die – some in a few days, some in a few months, and some after a few years. Generally, children up to the age of seven do not incur sanskaras. Their life until seven years of age is passed through according to, and depending on, the push of the sanskaras in their previous life. They are happy or miserable in accordance with the push being smooth or violent.
This makes perfect sense when you think about it. For example, in the tsunami that devastated Aceh in Indonesia, the lives of at least 120,000 people were suddenly expunged in a matter of minutes. It would be unlikely that all these people had simultaneously worked out their sanskaras and were ready for their natural death. However, I found another reference that suggests that this unlikely gathering of ill-fated individuals does indeed take place.
God is not kind, he is the ocean of mercy. But it is all according to law. And law is not complicated, it is simple. You sow a seed, you water it, you have a plant that grows - it is so simple. Law gives you all this from one seed, because all this was latent in the seed. Law deals individually, and also in multitudes of the same type. Your taking birth at a certain time, your giving up the body at a certain time, is all according to law, which shapes your actions. You are not responsible. But what about those who all die at one and the same moment, like thousands in an earthquake? Law gathers all of the similar types in one country, and ends it in one time.
I suspect that the majority of those who die in natural disasters have been gathered in the one place by the Law of Karma but a minority do die before their appointed time simply because of the indiscriminate nature of the disaster.
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Hi Sean, I read all your blogs with interest. It helps to keep up with a little of whats going on up there. I seem to have lost your email address. I'd like to keep in touch still.
John.
Good to hear from you again John. Are you still using your fastmail account? I've sent an email to that address.
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