Frustration Getting the Next Body

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 6 years before Dec 11, 2018

MiBeloved 6 years ago

On the astral level, during the night and early this morning, I had some conversations with Arthur Beverford, who is now deceased. His concern was with rebirth, how a person cannot find suitable parents who would foster a steady yoga/meditation practice during the infant years.

Beverford said this:

During the life of my last body, I took rebirth for granted, meaning that I thought it happens in one’s favor no matter what and that it did not require pre-planning. This view was very out of place. In fact it was a child’s view of the reality.

For one thing as a child one makes many assumptions about one’s parents and one just does not understand when they are struggling to make a living, to satisfy the status quo, when they are disagreeing with one another and passing through various emotional crises. As a child one just thinks that the world is just happening without anyone exerting anything to make circumstances favorable.

As an infant, you might be living in a luxurious house but your parents might be in knee-deep anxiety about paying the mortgage, one the verge of foreclosure and still one has no idea and one lives in an idyllic world in the mind which is not the reality.

I had supposed in my past adult life that my rebirth would be facilitated and would just happen in my favor anyway. Now I know that is not necessarily the case. Every so often, one out of a million men might win the lottery but that is as far as luck goes. The remaining 99,999 men are stuck with the ordinary economy and must meet the challenge set by providence for the society.

Finding a body, finding new parents who are yogis, and who would coach me from the very beginning of my life is a daunting task. Even if one finds a couple like that, one has to qualify for birth in that genetic line. And some persons who are yogis are not begetting children for one reason or the other. It is a luck and chance manner with the odds in favor of one getting a body in family which has no yoga/meditation interest.