What is the mystery of birth and death?

Question

What is our related position in galaxy? Are we part of the space? Are we god?

Answer 1

Srila Prabhupada says in one of his class:
Lord Krishna says that if you want to get rid of this entanglement of... What is that entanglement? Now, janma-bandha, janma-bandha. Oh, it is a great entanglement. People do not take it very seriously. Birth. Birth means, as soon as birth... Only the one word has been used here, janma. Janma means birth. Birth means other things. Birth means death. Birth means old age. Birth means disease. Whenever there is birth, the other things are corollaries. They'll follow. Your birth means... A son is born. Oh, you are very glad, "I have got a son." But if you study philosophically, no, birth is not. He is not born. Death is born. Because the growing of the child means he is dying. It is dying. The dying process. The very day, the very moment the child is born, the dying process begins. So we do not know that it is not birth. It is death. This is called mäyä. This is called illusion, that death is born and we are jolly that there is birth of a child. This is called mäyä. So everything, from the beginning of our birth, we are illusioned, illusioned. And that illusion is so strong that it is very, very difficult to get out of it. Whole thing is illusion. The birth is illusion. This body is an illusion. And the bodily relationship, the country is illusion. The father is illusion. The mother is an illusion. The wife is illusion. The childrens are illusion. Everything illusion. Everything illusion. And we are compact in that illusion. We are thinking that we are very much learned and very much advanced and so many things we are imagining. But as soon as death comes, the actual fact, the beginning of death, then we forget everything. We can forget our country. We forget our relatives. We forget our wife, children, father, mother—everything gone. You see? If it is a fact that I am soul, eternal, then it is a fact also that in my previous life I had my country. I had my children. I had my home. I had my father. I had my everything. But can you remember any of these things, what you were in your previous life? Either human, human-born life or either animal life, you cannot... Death means forgetful. We have forgotten everything. Actually, there is no death for the soul. Just like you are... At night, you go to sleep. So that is a sort of death. And again you get up in the morning. So death is something like that. Death is sleeping for seven months. That's all. Without any consciousness. For three, three months without any consciousness. Or, say, seven months. Death means forgetfulness. Just like at sleep, we forget everything, what I am, where I am sleeping, who I am, what is my identity, identification, everything forgotten. Then again, as soon as I rise up in the morning, I remember, "Oh, I am such and such officer. I am such and such father, such and such husband, and I have got to do such and such things." Everything remembered. But during your sleep, you forget everything. Similarly, death means from the time of your leaving this body and entering into the womb of another mother, and so long another body is not developed, you remain unconscious. And as soon as another body's developed within the womb of the mother and the time is up to come out, then again you remember.
So practically there is no death. Death means changing the body. We have already discussed this point. Now... But that janma, that birth, oh, it is stated here that it is a bondage. Janma-bandha. Bandha means bondage. Practically there is similarity in English. It is called bandha. And in English, bond. There is similarity of sound. Janma-bandha. So this janma, so long, so long your mind will be absorbed in the activities of this material world, you are sure to take birth again. So that activities, by intelligence, have to be purified in such a way that it will not affect you. It will not affect you. That is the tactics. This tactic... So we should be very serious. We should be very serious that many, many lives, many, many lives we have passed, but there was no opportunity to get out of this tribulation of birth, death, old age and diseases. Now here is a chance. Here is a chance in the human form of life. So every intelligent man should take advantage of it, and you can get assistance from these authorized books of Bhagavad-gétä and Çrémad-Bhägavata. And also expert advice, knowledge. So we should not miss this opportunity. And then the question is, "Suppose my, after this, after quitting this body, the present body, I don't get janma. Then what is happening to me?" It is al... That is also stated here. Janma-vi..., janma-bandha-vinirmuktäù padaà gacchanty anämayam. Anämayam. Ämayam. Ämayam means contamination. Ämayam, contamination. So this contaminated life, as soon as we give up this contaminated life, then our promotion is in the uncontaminated atmosphere, anämayam. Anämayam. Anämayam means Vaikuëöha. Vaikuëöha means where there is no anxiety. I think about this anxiety we explained to you in our last meeting.
So we are, we are getting promotion. We are getting promotion to a life where there is no birth, no death and no disease, no old age. And that means we come to our normal life. Normally, we want. Nobody wants disease. Nobody wants death. Nobody wants old age. Nobody wants to suffer the suf..., I mean to say, the miseries of birth. Oh. There are great miseries when you are in the womb of the mother, all tightly packed up and in a bag, suffocated bag. We do not (know) how do we live even. And if we put again into that position, it will be very difficult. You cannot live for a few seconds. But by the arrangement of nature, or God, we live within the womb of our mother for ten months in that position. But we have forgotten. But just imagine in how much trouble I was. That is, these things are to be thought. That is intelligent thought. Now, here is a chance that you can get rid of these, all these miseries—the miseries of birth, the miseries of death, the miseries of old age and miseries of, I mean to say, disease.
Lord Sri Krishna points out them: açraddadhänäù puruñä dharma, dharmasya asya [Bg. 9.3]. This principle of religion, those who do not accept it as authority, so the result is that they can never have any connection directly with Kåñëa, and, as the, as such, apräpya mäm, because they do not have any access to Kåñëa, therefore nivartante, they remain... Nivartante means remain. Where does, do they remain? Måtyu-saàsära, måtyu-saàsära-vartmani, this life: birth, death, birth, death, birth, death. Vartmani means this life: birth, death, birth, death. Go on like that. And that birth, death, does not mean that next birth you'll have similar facilities or similar life, human being. No. Birth-death means you have risk also. You can get your next birth not exactly a human being. You... Not exactly in America or not exactly in India. Oh, you may be transferred to any other country or any other planet or any other species of life. There is no certainty. That will depend according to your work. So this is the... This is called the path of birth and death. Måtyu-saàsära-vartmani. Have your birth, remain for some time, enjoy or suffer. Then again give up this body and enter into the womb of another mother, human being or animal. Then prepare your another body. Then come out. Then begin your work. This is called måtyu-saàsära-vartmani.
If anyone wants to avoid this path of birth and death, this risk, then they must take to this Kåñëa consciousness. It is not my version. The Lord says Himself. If you want to study Bhagavad-gétä seriously, then here is a point. Here is a point. If you read Bhagavad-gétä as a matter of relaxation, that is different thing. But if you want to take benefit out of Bhagavad-gétä, this instruction is very much important.
açraddadhänäù puruñä
dharmasyäsya parantapa
apräpya mäà nivartante
måtyu-saàsära-vartmani
[Bg. 9.3]
Måtyu-saàsära means this path of regularly, as we are passing on...
ahany ahani lokäni
gacchanti yama-mandiram
çeñaù sthitam icchanti
kim äçcaryam ataù param
Yudhiñöhira Mahäräja, he was asked, "What is the most wonderful thing in the world?" He replied... He was very learned king. "Yes. The most learned thing, most wonderful thing in the world..." You, you have heard seven wonderful things in the world. So Yudhiñöhira Mahäräja said: ahany ahani lokäni gacchanti yama-mandiram. Yama-mandira means "the temple of death." Every minute, every second, we are experiencing that living entities are going to the temple of death, either man, animal, ant, so many. This world is called therefore måtyu-loka, "the planet for death." "The planet for death." So Yudhiñöhira Mahäräja said, ahany ahani lokäni gacchanti yama-mandiram. Ahani, ahany ahani means daily, every day, every moment. At least every day we see so many death list. If you go to the crematorium ground, you can see. So ahany ahani lokäni gacchanti yama-mandiram, çeñaù sthitam icchanti. But those who are still alive, they think, "Oh, death will not take place. I'll live. I'll live." He does not think that he... You are also subjected to this principle of dying. But he does not take it seriously. This is called illusion, mäyä. He thinks, oh, that "I shall live forever. Therefore let me do whatever I like. There is no question of responsibility." Oh, this is very risky life, very risky life. And this is the most covering part of illusion. One should be very serious that death is waiting. "As sure as death." If there is any surety in this world, that is death. Nobody can avoid it. And when there is death, oh, there is no more intelligence, no more your puffed-up philosophy. You are under the grip of nature.
Consciousness is the main principle, either for conditional life or for liberated life. We are therefore proposing Kåñëa consciousness, which means liberation from the repetition of birth and death. Unfortunately, people are so dull in this age that they have no idea how birth and death can be stopped. They think that birth and death cannot be stopped; even famous scientists admit this. However, in Bhagavad-gétä Çré Kåñëa says that we should always keep in mind the four miserable conditions. These are birth, old age, disease and death. When we are able to put an end to these, we are liberated. This simply requires that we clear our consciousness by thinking of Kåñëa. The purpose of this Kåñëa consciousness movement is to keep our minds constantly on Kåñëa. Kåñëa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He is a person. When He was realized by Arjuna, He was addressed as puruñam. God is puruña, male, not female. puruña means "the enjoyer," and prakåti means "the enjoyed." Everything is enjoyed by the supreme puruña. It is also stated that we are actually prakåti, not puruña. The human dress is simply mäyä, illusion. We are thinking that we are puruña, the enjoyer, but actually we are the enjoyed. A man, thinking of enjoying himself, tries to imitate puruña, but actually he is prakåti. As a consequence, he is cast into this material world. Because the living entity wants to enjoy the material world and is attached to the three guëas, he receives different types of bodies. One who is in the mode of goodness receives the body of a learned brähmaëa. This is somewhat elevated, for he can gradually understand what is God. In the modes of passion and ignorance, no one can understand God. Also, from the material point of view, if one is situated in the mode of goodness, he can be elevated to higher planetary systems. Nonetheless, even if one goes to Brahmaloka, the highest planet in the material atmosphere, one is not actually perfectly situated. There is really no benefit because even on Brahmaloka the four miseries of material existence are found: birth, old age, disease and death. Lord Brahmä also dies and takes birth. From Vedic literatures we understand that Lord Brahmä took birth from the lotus flower generated from the navel of Viñëu. Thus he had his birth, and when Lord Brahmä dies, the entire material cosmic manifestation will be finished. Just as Lord Brahmä undergoes birth, old age, disease and death, so also a small ant or insect undergoes the same process. The point is that the living entity has to be free from this bondage because he is by nature eternal. According to Bhagavad-gétä, the living entity never actually takes birth, and he never actually dies. Na jäyate mriyate vä kadäcit: "For the soul there is never birth nor death." (Bg. 2.20)
It is the body that is destined to die, whether the body be that of Lord Brahmä or of a small ant. One should not think that one is liberated because one can live millions and millions of years. The life of Lord Brahmä covers millions of earth years, yet he is also subjected to birth and death. That is the way of conditional life. We should take advantage of the perfect knowledge given by Vedic literatures, by the great åñis and Bhagavän Kapiladeva, as well as by Bhagavän Çré Kåñëa, in order to attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
Receiving Kåñëa consciousness means receiving light. People are exhausted with the materialistic way of life, especially in the West. Now the Kåñëa consciousness movement is giving new life to Western society. By nature, we living entities are liberated. There is actually no question of birth, death, old age and disease. Since we are part and parcel of Kåñëa, the Supreme Lord, how can there be a question of these things? Kåñëa is sac-cid-änanda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], and being part and parcel of Kåñëa, we are also of the same nature. We are equal in quality, although not in quantity. Why, then, should we suffer the pangs of death? Therefore in the previous verse Kapiladeva instructed: yoga ädhyätmikaù puàsäà mato niùçreyasäya. The soul is entrapped in the body, and the process of perfect yoga is the process of saving the soul from bodily confinement and the four miseries that plague the body. How can this perfect yoga be attained? That is explained by Lord Kapila in the next verse: rataà vä puàsi muktaye. If our consciousness is simply attached to Kåñëa, we will be liberated.
The great souls are always chanting about Kåñëa. Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare. They are also endeavoring with great determination in their devotional service. For instance, in the Kåñëa consciousness temples the devotees rise early in the morning, at 4:00 A.M., and they immediately bathe. Then they go to maìgala-ärati at 4:30, and after maìgala-ärati they study the Vedic literatures. These are the processes by which we can awaken our dormant love for Kåñëa. Because we are part and parcel of Kåñëa—just as a son is part and parcel of his father—there is a natural love between us. However, somehow or other the son leaves home and forgets his father. The father, of course, never forgets his son. He thinks, "Oh, my son has left. If he would only come back!" Kåñëa thinks in this way. We are all sons of Kåñëa, and Kåñëa is more anxious to get us back home, back to Godhead, than we are to go. Therefore Kåñëa comes and says, "You rascal! Give up all this nonsensical material engagement. You have manufactured so many religions and dharmas. Just give them all up and simply surrender unto Me." Kåñëa comes Himself and leaves behind His words. His words are also Himself because His words are absolute. Presently we do not see Kåñëa, but if we actually advance, we will see Him. When we see the Deity in the temple, we think, "Oh, this is an idol. It is not Kåñëa." If we think in this way, we have not seen Kåñëa. Kåñëa is also present in His words, in Bhagavad-gétä. That is kåñëa-väëé, the message of Kåñëa. The stage of awareness of Kåñëa can be attained when one is advanced in Kåñëa consciousness. Then one can understand that Kåñëa is present in the Deity, in Bhagavad-gétä, in the taste of water, in the sunshine, in the moonshine and in all sound. Kåñëa is present everywhere, but one has to acquire knowledge in order to know how to see Kåñëa. That is mukti, liberation. That is Kåñëa consciousness. That is also the process of bhakti-yoga-çravaëaà kértanaà viñëoù smaraëam... [SB 7.5.23]. Deity worship is arcanam, chanting is vandanam, and däsyam is working for Kåñëa and spreading this Kåñëa consciousness movement.
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we are not god,we are part & parcel of god.Supreme personality of Godhead sri Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita clearly about this.You may refer.

Answer 2

See, scientifically there is no mystry in Birth and Death. A person comes into this world because he has a biological father, whose sperms help his mothers eggs to fertilize. This egg, then turns into the embryo and then he comes into the world. On the other hand you can see it as the outcome of chemical energy of the fertilizing organs of male and female that converts into matter. This matter is the Human form. A new born baby, with all the processes of life like metabolism becomes old in years. This is the same that happens when somebody dies, The energy of his body gets dissolved in the atmosphere.
You may be knowing the fact that everything in this universe possesses energy, so do we. And that is our related position in galaxy, and we are very much a part of the space. But we are not god, if you think it with a religious perspective, since god is the one who has created all that one can see and imagine.

Answer 3

No body dies only the body dies and soul is there What ever we did will be answered to us or reverted back to us so only it says that do good. Why the karma of the previous birth have its effect on us in this birth its because its the continuation of the life so its clearly proved that there is no death even U can defeat the death so death and birth is also not a permanent one to our soul we can defeat both the death and the birth. Even lord Krishna says that the birth and death is not for the soul only to the body in his Bagavath Gita.
Even Quaran says that the soul is belong to the god and it will reach the god and it will be sent back by the god as in the other form of living being. Body belongs to the earth so it goes to the earth.

Answer 4

Birth is the end of a previous cycle, and death is the beginning of a new one. We are a tiny part of the galaxy, galaxy is a tiny part of the universe, universe is a tiny part in the creation of the One True God. We are too ignorant to claim any position higher than one of His created beings.

Answer 5

Mystery of birth & death lies in different cycles we daily come accross.We have experience the change of weather,water cycle occuring in the nature & a lot more.Day & night are two faces of the same coin. Hence, birth & death are nothing but different faces of the same coin.
Our position in galxy is certainly superb and we are part of the universe. A man can be certainly termed as prototype of universe/God

Answer 6

Its Hard to tell if the snails are male and female. Thats why they sell the snails as "mystery snails" which is a combo if apple snails that they have in the tank. Chances are that you could of bought a female snail that was prego already. To breed you will need to have a male and female snail for the Mystery snails. The reason your blue mystery snail had died was because of your less frequent water changes. These snails make a ton of bio load so filtration is needed as also a 25 to 50% water changes depending on your tank size. It is normal for them to float in the water. The female snail will lay her eggs, which will look white or pink, on the sides of the tank, at the top where the water has air/ water

Answer 7

There is no mystery of birth or Death. Death is the truth and we should not forget this. With the Birth in mankind we should try to free us from the cluthces of Death. We can only win over death by freeying us from the Birth. Spritually.

Answer 8

Basically what you asked is very difficult to answer as its not a one line answer any more. It has become a science. I will suggest you to read the book ' Life after Death' by Swami Avedananda of Sri Ramkrishna Mission.
I am sure you will get your answers there as it is the best book I have ever read on this topic.

Answer 9

It is the favourite play of Almighty God. Human being tries very much to survive but final decision is His. Weare not God but only His toys.

Answer 10

Birth is when a new life comes..it's arrival is birth..it's a joyful moment
Whereas, death is very sad and painful moment...it takes away life..
so,there's a deep mystery..
you know you'll die one day still u pray to live longer and longer..

Answer 11

hey dere

Well we come in this life to do good deeds to please our lord up above. To be thankful for his blessings. and to do good to others.
its like the lord up above has given us a chance (birth) to prove ourselves and to prove ALlah that we are good by doin good deeds. And if ALlah is pleased with us He will grant us paradise after we die (because death is inevitable) however if we do bad deeds then he will put us hell ( Allah forbids)

So its quite simple u see... dont make it complicated. Try to read the Holy Quran. Dont read it as if its a book of muslims or a book of islam. Read it as if its a message from Allah. Try to find out what happened in the past. Try to follow the teachings of Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Try to feel the difference. Quran is filled with peace. Once u start readin it ur gonaa notice the difference.