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There are three different pathways for a soul, after the human body dies. First pathway is for a spiritually evolved soul. Second pathway is for a soul which has done good deeds, but with selfish motives. The third pathway is for souls which has done wrong activities. Each and every activity and thoughts of ours create Samskaras ( impressions ) in our mind. When the human body perishes, the sum total and cumulative effect of these Sanskaras is taken into consideration, and then accordingly one of the three pathway is decided for the soul.

In the current times, we are intrinsically and continuously bombarded with the notion of hundreds of religions, and even millions of Gods. For instance, in Hindu religion, we are said to have 33 crore deities, pertaining to each aspect of the nature and cosmos. Are not these Gods supposed to be eternally free souls, with no notion of attachment towards living forever – this is one thought which comes in the minds of all spiritual seekers, initially. First, to confirm, we are talking in terms of the Gods here, and not referring to the Supreme God.

I always wondered since my childhood that we cannot have such a transient life of 80 years or so. This very thought invoked feelings which tended me to dig deep down within. Basically trying to unlearn what has been wrongfully learnt over so many births. But things are becoming so much clearer with each passing day. The most beautiful news that I get is that “I” am immortal. I never die. I am always in a state of eternal being, which never started and which will never end. In fact, “I” belong to that ultimate self, which was the beginning of the first resolve. I am no less than God, and I am no more than the smallest of creature.

We are all provided with so much in life, that however and whatever is the magnitude of our thankfulness to God is less. We need to be thankful for all that we have and all that we are. We tend to take so many things for granted, but never visualize what would happen if we were all not blessed with so many beautiful things. We should be thankful for the beautiful sun that rises every morning for us, giving us new hope in our life everyday. We should be happy for the wonderful organized way the nature and the cosmos works. Everything is so beautifully arranged and planned. There is a 24 hour day. Our solar system has nine planets. The trees grow in their exact defined way. There are four seasons, which keep changing as per their schedule without fail. We should be wonder struck with so many things that happen to us in such organized ways. The most beautiful part is the way the human body works involuntarily. Imagine our state of being, if we were to wake up every morning and had to instruct our lungs to start breathing, or to instruct our stomach and intestine to start digesting food after eating, or if we had to instruct our ears to start listening each time we listened to anybody – imagine, all these things happen so very seamlessly and involuntarily. There is so much beauty in this organized activity. We have so many reasons to be in a state of gratitude in our life, all the time – at every moment.

Remember, it is within ourselves that lies the problem and the solution. We may be going through the worst phase of life. Things may seem to be very topsy-turvy, and we may seems to think that the nature and God has been ruthless on us. We may think that we are the most unfortunate people in the world. But, we should not forget the fact that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Similarly, the way we articulate the occurrences in our life, so is the way we interpret it, and so is the way we start feeling about it. We may feel some remorse for something, we would have done, and there can an uncanny feeling of being let down by one’s own self. We may seem to blame the entire world for it. We may seem to think that others have had inflicted the problems on us.

This article is an extension of the fact that what we think is what we become. Whenever we think or rather whenever make our mind think, it creates a formation of cloud, which is transmitted to the atmosphere. These cloud always remain in the cosmos, even if we emit and then forget it. These mental formations create an independent existence of its own. It is then, that it becomes separate from the being who generated it. It is like for example – the supreme being created humans and then human start thinking and acting like an individual separate entity. The strength of the mental formation depends on the source of the thoughts and how clearly it is defined.

Today is 1st Jan 2010 – the new year day. I sometimes think that how come one day is so different from the other. Everyday the nature behaves the same way. But somehow we classify some days very differently. Be it our birthday, our anniversary, special holidays, or any other special occasion. The very nature of the day makes it so special, even though we all know that everything in the world has remained same. Even on the most special day of ours, the sun continues to rise from the east.

We have the phenomenal power of living our dreams, provided we can develop a full proof belief system. Faith is giving divine a chance to act, similarly belief  is about providing a platform for our mind to manifest our thoughts. Our mind is like a receiving station, where in millions of thoughts come to us in a day. Now it is up to us to shoo them away, or to welcome them with open hearts. We have to realize the power of abundance of our mind. The mind has a limitless power to manifest our thoughts. The only thing it needs is clarity of thoughts and the back up of our belief in those thoughts. The way it works is very simple – if we ourselves dont have clarity over our visions, and we dont know where we are headed, then the mind is bound to reflect this thought in terms of its manifestations. Most important thing we need to do it to have a purpose driven life. A life without purpose is like a boat without the radar.

The other day I had been to a doctor’s place with one of my relatives. The doctor was very methodical in explaining the problem. She drew pictures and explained the whole functionality of the body organ, and she also explained what can, and what has, gone wrong with that organ. I could easily make out that she had complete mastery over what she was telling, and had real life experiences of dealing with similar cases. I was in awe for this doctor.

We humans are a social animal. Everyday, we come across innumerable interactions with known and unknown people. Everybody has their own opinion about how things should work. We, also, as part of society, have to play different roles in every moment of our life. These are certain things which is completely unavoidable in the present era, and that is how it is going to remain. We have a tendency to get influenced by our surroundings, and we allow our surroundings and daily happenings to rule our mind and our thoughts. We allow others thinking to influence our own thinking. As a matter of fact, if you take statistical figures, surprisingly you will find that 99.9% of our thoughts are all about our surroundings, and about our daily chores. No wonder, we never give time to our mind to think the way it should and it is ought to think.