Yogi and Friend in the Next Life

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 6 years before Aug 31, 2018

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Last night I had another death premonition, where a friend from childhood met me in the astral world and wanted to discuss the way in which we were growing up. This person has wished that he could exchange fortunes with me when we were teenagers, even though he has a much better childhood than mine. He saw some benefit in my childhood when around 14 years of age I moved from the north coast of South American where our bodies were born to Trinidad, an island off the north coast.

He failed to see that he got good fortune since he grew up under the care of his mother and father, while I did not live under the shelter of my parents but was under the shelter of the mother of my father instead. While my father was an irresponsible young man after marriage, his father was responsible and came home every night to the same house in which his children and spouse were in. My father did no such thing.

As the saying goes, the cow is likely to consider that the grass must be greener on the other side even though in fact that other field is dried up and the one in which the cow is feeding has a sprinkler system operating in it.

Such is life.

Of interest in this story, is that some years after we had this friendship in high school we came to realize that our fathers were school friends just as we were school friends. There is no telling where one will be in the next birth, with what advantage and what disadvantage, because the winding curvy road of destiny has many surprises and some of them are unfavorable. Sometimes the road is smooth and the tires are new and treaded. Sometimes the road is bumpy and the tires are bald and deflated.

This friend who met me in the astral is of the mind that we will again meet up as kids in the next life but I did not interfere with his ideas since he would be disappointed to find out that I have absolutely no interest in being his friend again in any life in any material body ever. Nothing personal but the material world is just not my cup of tea.

If I have to do it, I will have to do it, but it is not that it is desired.

Little does he understand that material nature was very friendly to him in this life and will perhaps be friendly again in the next life, since material nature does have her favorites. And for me, it will probably be the same thing a hell of an infancy and childhood with misfortune stalking every chance it could get. So for him another body is right up his alley and for me it is the last thing I would desire.