" The supreme Being is present in everyone's heart, Arjuna", says Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. " He directs the comings and goings of all living beings. It's as if they're strapped into a spinning machine. That machine is the material universe".
Imagine a gigantic Ferris wheel. Only the top half of it is above ground. It rotates upward from beneath the earth: a child is born. It reaches its zenith: full adulthood is attained. It starts to turn downward: old age kicks in. It disappears beneath the earth: death.
The cycle doesn't stop there, It continues through afterdeath expriences that those of us still standing on the surface of the earth can't see. Then it swings back up again from beneath the ground: the soul is reborn in another body.
We meet a person we've never laid eyes on before and instantly we feel like we've known her forever. We meet another person and immediately we distrust him. Why?
Some of us are born with exceptional talents. We may be gifted singers, musicians, scientists, business people. We're attracted from early childhood to fields in which we already seem to have notable abilities. How can this be?
This Western scientists answer would be that at some point in our embryonic development the molecule in am unidentified enzyme shifted slightly and shaped our brain chemistry a certain way. Hindus offer an alternative answer that makes at least as much sense as that. They say we're attracted and repelled by new people we meet because we've met them before, and at some level of our awareness, we already know whether they're friend or foe. We have skills in certain areas because we developed them through plain hard work in previous lives.
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