A yogi Travels

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 7 years before Jul 12, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

Recently during travels, I got the opportunity to realize that if I took another body, it would be compliance again in terms of confirming to someone’s way of doing things.

As an adult with one’s own residence one does whatever one wants to do and arranges things for one’s convenience. This may amount to total chaos or fanatical organization. In either case one sets up an environment the way that is natural for oneself. A person who is innately disordered will demolish the most neatly organized place in quick time. While a person who is ordered will bring the most chaotic place into what might be considered the most natural state of high order.

As a child one has to get the approval of parents and so one is circumstantially limited in how much one can do to set up a place in an ordered or disordered way. A disordered child will catch hell if it is born in the home of ordered parents and an ordered child will find itself into much hot water in a disordered parental environment.

As a visitor it is similar since one has to confirm to the likes and dislikes of the host unless one thrives on being disagreeable. This guest position is reminiscent of and is precursor of what one will face if one has to take another body. As an infant one is little more than a little pet animal in the house of one’s parents. A little dog in one of the homes where I visited was locked in a little pen at certain times. It was restricted in where it could urinate and defecate. Its barking was quelled with strict objections. The little guy was kept indoors most of the time.

Its food was limited to whatever the owner provided and even though it could eat to its heart’s content, it was a limited diet of little hard pellets manufactured by a dog food company.

In terms of the temperature, it may be said that the little dog had it made in the shade, living all day in an air-conditioned building which many human beings in undeveloped countries cannot enjoy. But that advantage was offset by the disadvantage of having no choice in the matter.

So what will be my lot in the next life as a little infant which is little more than this little doggy?

Who will be my mother? Who will be my father?

How large will be my little crib?

How long will I be cooped in a temperature controlled building?

What sort of manufactured food will I be eating?

Will there be direct mechanical or electronic feeding of infants in the near future?