Shrimad Bhagvad Gita
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Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

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Causes Of Rebirth

"Om namo bhagavate vasudevayah"
 
The present life of a living being is just one among many. A soul passes through countless bodies, taking birth again and again. As discussed in an earlier post, every soul is a part of the Supreme Soul, the Supreme Purusha—Bhagavan Shri Krishna.

This brings up a natural question:
If the Purusha (Ātma), which originates from the Supreme Purusha and is destined to reunite with Him, then why does it get caught in the cycle of birth and death?
The answer lies in attachment—to the body and the material world. The soul, deluded by material pleasures, begins to identify with the body and forgets its true spiritual nature. It starts believing that this material world is its home. As a result, it becomes bound to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

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Today's Shloka

Ch 13 : Sh 15

सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् ।
असक्तं सर्वभृच्चैव निर्गुणं गुणभोक्तृ च ॥

Illuminating the functions of the senses while unconnected with the sense organs, detached and yet supporting all, free from the Gunas and yet experiencing the Gunas;

Purport

The last shloka described how is the great Brahman present everywhere enveloping the entire spaces. It is present in entire universe in such a way that it can receive all visual and verbal inputs from everywhere. The last Shloka also mentioned how the Brahman is an active and dynamic force and not an static one. This Shloka describes the 5th characteristics of the Brahman.

Everything a living being senses or experiences is caused and supported by this very force Brahman. This gives another understanding of life and that is that life is not a centered phenomena in a living being but life exists in entire body and senses. Every cell has to have the life force working. And the force which let the life in every cell function indeed is the Brahman. But after Brahman is causing life in every cell, it is yet not bounded or attached with the senses or anything in physical body. When body stops functioning the Brahman is not affected. But whatever actions been performed by the living being, whatever behavior a living being generated while living as a living being hence is stored by the Brahman and the same is transferred to the new life the soul gets. This also explains the continuity of the Karma and the rebirths. Many things a living being has in this life is decided by what he has done in previous life. Whatever he is doing now will decides the future. Brahman plays the central role in maintaining the continuity of Karma.