- The Gita says that you will carry with you to your next life what you think at the time of your death.
- King Bharata left his body repeating, ‘Deer, deer.’ So he was reborn as a deer. If you think of God at the time of death, you attain Him, and then you don’t have to return to this world.
- If a person thinks of God at the time of death, the mind is purified. Such a mind does not get another chance to become attached to ‘lust and greed.’
- Perhaps while contemplating God, he suddenly develops a desire for enjoyment. This craving makes him fall from yoga. In the next life he will have the same spiritual tendencies.
- The Gita says, ‘A man is reborn with the same tendencies he had at the time of his death.’ King Bharata was born as a deer because he was thinking of his deer in his last moments.
- As long as you don’t realize that God is the Doer, you will have to return to the world again and again – you will be born again. When you realize that He is the Doer, you won’t be born into this life again.
- As long as you do not say, ‘Tuhun, Tuhun [only You],’ He will not liberate you. You will die and be born again and again and you will not attain liberation. So what’s the use in saying, ‘My and mine?’ The servant of a proprietor says, ‘That’s our garden. This is my cot.’ But when the proprietor dismisses him, he can’t even carry away his mango-wood box.