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Is it so important to know this BK fact ?
One of the concepts we mortals are generally brought up with is to "live long and prosper". This applies in Western as well as Eastern cultures.
People strive to be healthy, save money for old age, pensions etc. Something about living long. Spiritual health. Physical health. Mental health. Of course in BK philosophy, this is not needed at your next birth.
Lie Zi, a Taoist sage, remarked that "if one does not cling to life or death, then whether life is short or long does not matter". Hence complete detachment.
If an inheritance (of a long life, riches in the new world, kingdoms in your next birth etc), is supplanted in this your last birth and God says everyone has an equal chance to it, aren't we all going to fight and scramble over it, and hence be attached to a futuristic physical desire however subtle it is, and hence defeating the very thing you're supposed to be which is to be free from desires. Does God need to show us what is in His Will (not that He actually dies but the world does instead by destruction) ?
A true angel is someone who does everything selflessly, but when each morning the Murli pounds you with inheritance issues, then you've set the debate on who gets what amongst the children, e.g a spot in the rosary. Just when things were getting comfortable, hold on, someone slightly purer than me has just knocked me off the rosary
Someone in love with God does not care if there are riches and pomp at stake.
One of the concepts we mortals are generally brought up with is to "live long and prosper". This applies in Western as well as Eastern cultures.
People strive to be healthy, save money for old age, pensions etc. Something about living long. Spiritual health. Physical health. Mental health. Of course in BK philosophy, this is not needed at your next birth.
Lie Zi, a Taoist sage, remarked that "if one does not cling to life or death, then whether life is short or long does not matter". Hence complete detachment.
If an inheritance (of a long life, riches in the new world, kingdoms in your next birth etc), is supplanted in this your last birth and God says everyone has an equal chance to it, aren't we all going to fight and scramble over it, and hence be attached to a futuristic physical desire however subtle it is, and hence defeating the very thing you're supposed to be which is to be free from desires. Does God need to show us what is in His Will (not that He actually dies but the world does instead by destruction) ?
A true angel is someone who does everything selflessly, but when each morning the Murli pounds you with inheritance issues, then you've set the debate on who gets what amongst the children, e.g a spot in the rosary. Just when things were getting comfortable, hold on, someone slightly purer than me has just knocked me off the rosary
Someone in love with God does not care if there are riches and pomp at stake.