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A: Yes. They consciously chose. I was once healing an autistic child in America. The child was born and brought up in a Telugu speaking family. When I put my hand on the child to heal, the child started talking to me in singular Tamil, a child who is 4 years old! He spoke to me, 'Remove your hand.' I slowly asked him, 'Why are you telling me not to heal you? Don't you know that I am here only to heal you?' He replied, 'Yes, but I don't want to get healed. I am the owner of this body. I have consciously decided to take such a body.' I asked him why? He replied, 'I am not interested in taking the responsibility of going to school, going for a job etc. I hate this civilization. I just want to rest and relax. I don't want any so called civilized life. That is why I chose autism.' I told him, 'But your parents are suffering. They are such nice people. They are suffering because of you. Why did you decide to take birth with them?' He replied, 'Only because they are nice people, I took birth with them! They will take good care of me.' Remember: he is answering all these things logically in Tamil! The whole family is looking baffled and troubled because this boy is talking in Tamil so fluently! Not a single person among them knows Tamil. I don't want to reveal the identity for privacy reasons, but this incident actually happened.

Your birth is your conscious decision, your conscious choice, the reason for which only you know. Sometimes, a particular part of the body might have been involved in some activity which you did not like, so you will renounce that part of the body when you take birth the next time. Just because of hatred towards that activity, you renounce that part of the body itself! It is true!

Q: Even if we do the mistake just once, will we renounce that part of the body?

A: If that one instance created a strong memory, then yes, you will renounce it.

You see: when you leave the body, and you are about to chose the next body, all the cards will be in front of you. Naturally, you will pick up only the Master Card. You will say, 'I have played with all other cards like Visa Card etc....now I want to play only with the Master Card. You would have gotten tired with all the other types of cards. So you decide, it is time to pick up the Master Card. That is why Ramakrishna says that even seeing an enlightened Master casually is a blessing! It is a blessing.

Never take an enlightened Master's darśan for granted. Working with him or knowing that he is enlightened is secondary. Just understand that getting a glimpse is a blessing. The entire planet Earth does not have more than 2000 enlightened Masters. When I say 2000, I am also including all those persons who are claiming that they are enlightened also. If there are 2000 enlightened beings on Earth, what are your chances of meeting one in a single lifetime? Half a million is the maximum number of people you might see in your lifetime. In 6.5 billion population of the world, half a million is about 10%! So understand: you are clearly blessed to be a part of that 10%. Don't take yourself for granted. Don't think that having darśan of a Master is a casual thing. Further, in that 10%, probably only 0.1% will work with him – like going to his mediation camps, sitting around him etc. Even setting your eyes on him for a brief moment, puts you in the 10% category! Just imagine! So don't take yourself for granted. It is a very dangerous attitude. Be very clear: you are blessed.

Choosing an Enlightened Physiology

When you choose the next body, you will sit and try to recall the best physiological structure that you have seen in your entire life. You will analyze the best physiological structure possible and naturally, the enlightened physiology is the best! Human beings are the best physiological structures as of now. And naturally, out of whatever human structures you collected in your lifetime, the best will be the enlightened physiology. It is the physiology that does not bother much about food, eating, outer world; that which is established in bliss and ecstasy. You see all this, and naturally you say, 'O God! This seems to be a very strong and beautiful physiological structure. Let me choose to work for this.'

Either you may choose the enlightened physiology for yourself, or you may choose to live around that kind of an enlightened being, to be in the same space as that being. But your next decision, the decision of your next birth, will be very strongly towards enlightened physiology. So Ramakrishna's words are true. Even casually seeing an enlightened Master is a blessing. At face value, it may sound egoistic. Only if you look inside logically and understand, you will know, that it is a blessing. When I read this before enlightenment, it looked egoistic. When I got enlightened, I clearly understood what it was! Either you are on this side of the game, or on that side of the game. But blessed are those who understand the real inside view of this game, who understand the ideas or truths underlying the game.

Start Now – Clean and Reprogram Yourself!

You don't even have to wait till death to create an enlightened physiology. If you are seeing me now, now itself you can pick up the Master Card! You see: every night you sleep is actually death for you. Every day you get up is a new birth for you. If you look a little deeply, every ingoing breath is birth and every outgoing breath is death. Every moment, you are actually dying and taking birth. If you understand this, you don't have to wait till death to create an enlightened physiology. You can start right away!

You can create the enlightened physiology NOW. How to do it?

Two steps to create an enlightened physiology: the difference between your physiological structure and enlightened physiology is that he does not carry the samskaras from so many births; he has burned everything. So, you, also, can renounce all the samskaras brought from animal body to human body. Basically, the samskaras that you bring from the animal bodies are violence and greed – that gives rise to sex and fear. Because animals don't have a mind, they don't have intelligence, they have only instinct. But they have true instinct. They can save themselves from any survival threat. Also, they can reproduce themselves through physical relationship - sex. They don't do anything else. Your body, the base material for your body, is basically made up of these two engrams – fear and greed. If you can enter into the animal body again, and release these two engrams, your body is will be ready, purified, to be programmed for enlightened physiology.

Understand: there are two steps. One is throwing away the engrams you brought from the animal body and other births. The second is, programming your body to have an enlightened physiology - a more positive and energetic physiology. The first part is cleaning, and the second part is programming. Cleaning, you will do. Programming is my part. I will do it. I always do my job in the best way, so don't bother! I will do my job. Programming is my job. You just do the cleaning part.

In the first part, become the same animal that you were. How will you know from which animal you took birth, from which animal you took this jump? In Bharat, they have a technique based on your time of birth. They will predict the animal from which you took birth! It is part of the science of astrology. How many of you have studied your own horoscope. If you have, you will know your animal. There are 27 nakshatras or planets. For each planet, there will be an associated animal. Usually, only from the 5-sense animal, you will take a jump to the 6-sense human form. So among the 5-sense animals, they very clearly categorize and classify the animals. But now, how do you to tell from which animal you took birth? Just close your eyes, and start visualizing; whichever animal comes spontaneously is the animal.

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