QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

QUESTION & ANSWER WITH GURUDEV

POSTED ON: FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022

Q: Before being born in the human form, what other forms of birth does one have to go through?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

It is after 84,00,000 births that one is born in the human form. Why look behind, into the past? Look into the mirror. If you find that you resemble a monkey, then it could be a past monkey birth of yours. Or if you find yourself like a horse or a donkey, then maybe you went through those births. You could have been any animal.

I remember, once one of our teachers in school told a boy he was an ass. So I said, "Sir, he isn't just an ass but a complete zoo". Each individual has an element of all beings. All the creatures are there in oneself, the parrot, crow, owl, peacock, everything.

It does not matter what forms of birth you may have taken, now that you are in the human form, live in bliss. And when you are on your deathbed, please don't think of these creatures, the chicken for instance. You might just end up in the poultry farm in your next birth (laughter). If you think of an egg, that's what you will find yourself as.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar