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 of the worst things that can happen to us, not because it is bad, but because we do not know what will come next. And that is the reason why we are afraid of rebirth. But there are many people amongst us who are so cocksure about their next life, that they do all wrong things now, hoping for the best. I do not want you to take either course. I believe we have a future. I won't say future birth! And if there is a rebirth it need not be in this particular condition again. It may be possible for us to go beyond, and not come back to this earth consciousness, and move towards the Divinity as He is in Himself, for, all that we get in the yoga today is the Divinity as He is for us here. And that should give us a large amount of aspiration to find out what He is in Himself. That curiosity should come to us. Yes, He has come to us. He is so kind, so gracious, so much of everything. He gives us peace of mind. He has put us into contact with the universal consciousness or universal unconsciousness, it doesn't matter which.
But what is He in Himself? Has any one asked this simple question, what God is in Himself? All of us speak of God as He is for us and what He ought to be for us. Have we ever asked ourselves what He is in Himself and for Himself? Now that is the way of a higher evolution. When you leave this body, or even when you are in this body, if this curiosity or an aspiration to know God as He is in Himself comes to us, we find that we are led up to the higher and higher consciousness till finally we reach the Ultimate - the Divine as He is in Himself, and not as He is for the last term in evolution, namely ourselves.
Now, at that point, as Shri Ram Chandraji puts it very clearly, you need not come back to this earth once you have taken the human life and gone beyond. There are many speculations whether man will be born as an animal when he dies, or can be born as an animal and it all depends upon the aspirations and love that man has for animals or others. If a man loved his animal, then he may be born as an animal, and the story is of Jadabharata in our own scriptures. So we are asked not to have too many pets about us, and to devote our whole time for the upbreeding of those things. They are very good, no doubt, some of them. They may be some of the human beings who have taken that birth, and be domesticated with us; but that is not an ideal which you should have before you. Now if you drop that point and you seek man in his higher evolution, as one who is
































































































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