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December 2008 
Secrets of Life and Death
Sharma
How life was created on earth and what is its objective, we don't have any definite clue about it. Science and mythology both have different views on it. Why I am what I am, why can't I be you or you can't be I. It was I before, it is I now and it shall remain I in coming future. With time my mind, intellect, position in life, even body changes, but its still I.
Earth is full of life. There is no part of earth without life. Volcanoes have extreme temperatures, but bacteria are also found in it. Countless bacteria or virus are always present in our body. Virus is unique, it's symbolic of survival. Though harmful but it has an uncanny capacity to carry on. It acts dead in unfavorable circumstances and jumps back to life when finds something to cling on. Plants also have life. I believe in theory of reincarnation and theory of karma (explanation of cause and effects of our deeds). Based on our doings we reincarnate in a specific form. These two theories together can explain the complexities of life. People do good but don't get good or do bad and still get good, the reasons can best be explained by these theories. All living entities have soul. The soul can transmigrate to different species. Even in human form all have got different stations in life. Some are rich, some poor, healthy or diseased, beautiful or ugly, lucky or unlucky, happy or sorrowful. Theory of karma can explain the reasons for these differences. In life we either pay or get. When we do something for others we get paid, when we get others to do something for us we have to pay. We get paid for all the positive doings and pay for negative ones.
All things in universe have a life cycle. Milky ways, stars, planets all are completing their age. There should be some reason to as to why they are created and get destroyed. They have a cycle of life and death. If they have life and death, they should also have consciousness. There consciousness can be very much different from human consciousness. There is always an aim of creation, whether we know it or not. Heavenly bodies must be living out their life for some reasons. Their symptoms of life are different from the symptoms of life we know and recognize. But the basic symptoms of birth (creation), death (destruction), old age (wearing out) and disease (deformity) are same. There must be a link between the human consciousness and universal consciousness. Aim of human life is not just living but we are also expected to break free from all bondages and progress towards a better and higher life. The heavenly objects may have a similar objective and they have seemingly endless lives to live out. Life on earth is short lived. Most humans die before 100 years. Thus human life is like a blink of eye when compared with the grand universal lives. Now there is a possibility that universal objects get reincarnated in some life form on earth and achieve their goals in a very short period. So do we have a part of universal consciousness, ye surely we have. I feel some affinity with the sky, may be the stars twinkling in dark sky are part of my family.
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