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Human Body - For Enlightenment Power of Samskaras

It is you who decides your birth. Before taking birth, you sit with all the engraved memories, the samskaras in front of you. Somebody asked me the question, 'What do you exactly mean by samskaras?'

Samskaras means the experiences which you gain through all the five senses and through your mind - what you see, what you listen, what you smell, what you taste and what you experience through touch and the mind which develops it.

For example, you might not have seen an elephant with 4-5 trunks but you can visualize and develop it through your mind. That is also samskara. Whatever you receive through the five senses and whatever you develop based on that material through your mind is called samskara.

In front of you all the samskaras, engrams, which occurred will be there before you and you decide what kind of engrams you want to experience and go through. Why you decide I also don't know. I don't know. You just decide. What kinds of engrams you want to leave and what kind of engrams you want to go through and what kind of engrams will give you fulfillment, you choose your body according to that. According to those desires, you choose your body.