Souls and Memories

This post is about something which had created a deep thinking in me during my early college days. My thoughts transformed into a form after I started having so many discussions with my friend Suriya, who used to speak more about science and spirituality. I had planned to write this article in detail as a book relating the souls and our memories and the way the communication happens. This article was written after my graduation.


Purpose of Life
 
"What is the purpose of life on earth? What is the reason of my birth here? Is there anything special in it? Every people born, lives and then dies, but they wish to live a happy life while they live. Few able to succeed in that while few faces the failure. The same applies for me too. So is this the purpose of my birth? Or are there any other reasons for every living thing born?" These are few question and thoughts aroused in my mind when I was 19. These thoughts started floating through my minds after my schooling.

No living beings can survive and live the whole life without any help from other livings. Hence everyone at some point of time would need any help from others. I would like to quote the following words which I have read somewhere by some unknown author.

"No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too. No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help. Even if it's just a compliment, you can give that.

You never know when you may see someone that appears to have it all. They are waiting on you to give them what they don't have. A different perspective on life, a glimpse at something beautiful, a respite from daily chaos, that only you through a torn world can see".

The above words explain that every being are loaded with problems and need help to solve it. Also every being has the capability to help others, but the range of help differs.

This gave a solution for my previous questions. The purpose of my life here is to help someone, so that they can have a peaceful and happiest life. The purpose of life on earth is to help others and so they can/will help other and this cycle continues. If this is the purpose of our life then why should we hesitate to help other for solving/minimize their problems? Hence we should try our level best to solve the problems of others so that our problems will also be solved (by the cycle of help). If anyone hesitates to help others then, according to me, they are violating the purpose of their birth.

These thoughts directed me to another interesting thesis about knowledge, yogis and rebirth of athma.


What is Memory?

The data and information which we get from our birth is stored in our brain. Some person gets their previous birth memories. If it is true, then how and from where do they get those memories as this birth is completely independent of our previous birth? Though it seems to be independent, it is not completely independent. There is one common thing present in both the births, the soul, which is the real thing which chooses the body for its rebirth, to attain its goal. If some person can retrieve their pre-birth memories then where those information are stored? It is nowhere, but within ourself. Our soul contains all those pre-birth memories. If it has all pre-birth memories, then why not this birth's entire memories? Then, the real information which we get from the surrounding environment from our very birth or even from when we are in the early stage of fetus, are really stored somewhere else which only our soul can able to recognize and get. Then what is stored in our brain? What type of information our brain has? Might be the brain is storing only the information which are currently needed. To be clear with this, let us take the soul as similar to a permanent storage medium such as a Hard disk which stores all information from all births permanently. Our brain acts like a RAM in a CPU, which keeps the information needed for current running program, our present birth, as a temporary memory. On death the temporary memory may be lost from the brain, but the permanent data are stored somewhere else which can be interpreted and retrieved by our soul.

The ultimate goal of the soul might be to reach a birth less and deathless state.
 
Purpose of birth and rebirth
 
Why birth and rebirth happens? What this soul expecting, why it is taking new births again and again? The reason may be to know the TRUTH and to get into a state of birth less and deathless. To submerge itself within the mother soul (the mother of all the souls, PARAMATMA), who is the creator of all. He is the programmer, who programmed the life of each and every soul. All the souls behave in a preprogrammed fashion*. The soul chooses a body for its new life. The new present birth's life is preprogrammed and the hints are coded in every birth's body itself**. These hints reveal the secrets such as the life of the birth and also the life cycle of the soul.

* Every person's life is preprogrammed before his/her birth. This program fashion acts in a regular path with very slight deviations. These deviations are happened as a result of the type of activities we perform in our life. That is it is somewhat similar to a switch case program. According to the type of activities performed, the result is changed. However the final destination point of the birth may not be altered, which is a predefined climax. But only the life may find some deviations from its regular path.

** The hints are coded in the body reveals the secret of the life and soul. These hints are coded in palms, forehead, hands and fingers, and more. The positions of the planets during the birth time are also a type of code which reveals some secrets of the life.

Whatever happens, happens for a reason. We are incapable of perceiving the truth behind every event (or most events). What is the truth? The truth that, Gautama Buddha found under the tree Bothi. His life is destined to find the truth, but not others. May be there someone who is alive or already died or going to born who may have realized or will realize the truth. We are destined to do some other work (is it our duty?) while the truth will someday, eventually reach us.


Encoded Secrets
 
The nature plays an interesting role in creating the world. The nature (the mother soul/paramatma) has destined every Humans (is it only Humans?) life at the time of their birth (or may be before their birth) itself. Their destiny is not only known to the creator but also encoded in the materialistic world itself. If we are capable of deciphering these hidden information of life from the sources, then we can understand what exactly life is and what for it is destined for. Through thorough study, we can be able to modify the life path. It is like reprogramming the preprogrammed life. But there are many entities which hold every persons destiny from changing which is preprogrammed on his birth. To overcome all the hindrance, these entities also has to be identified and modified. It is like doing some parigaram to overcome some difficulties in life.

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