The Urge to be Young and it's Implications in Rebirth

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2024-09-06 - 18:22

When we desire to be young again. In a way, are we not desiring to be reborn? Doesn't that thought create a subconscious desire to be reborn again?

In Sanatana Dharm, you get the next birth based on your desires and karm. It's a complex math equation that I don't know about, but it's something like this - Your deeds(karm) create a chain reaction, which decide how your next life will be.

And your desires also fuel you to towards the form you will take in your next life.

One example was of a Rishi, who used to live in a forest. Once he meets a baby deer, probably abandoned or lost. So the Rishi takes the deer with him and keeps him so that it won't die in the forest alone. Soon after some years the deer grows up. One day the deer is nowhere to be found. So the Rishi gets worried if something happened to the deer and frantically runs in the forest two look for it. While running, he doesn't see that he's at the edge of a chasm due to the bushes, due to this he falls down. While taking his last breaths, the only thing he is thinking about is if the deer is okay or not? Was it attacked by animals while I was not looking?

He dies and gets reborn as a deer in his next life, because he was so attached to that deer that even in his last breaths he was only thinking about was his deer.

In similar way I can say that, the urge to be young and constantly thinking about our body as we age can lead us to taking another life. And do not confuse this to being healthy, I'm talking about being superficially looking young, coloring our white hair, still thinking about sex and having lust even if your old age.