YOU CHOOSE YOUR BODY, YOUR BIRTH
If you have lived a restless and continuously worrying life, the moment you leave the body, you will feel so restless that within three kshanas, you will take the next body. You cannot be without a body because you are so dependent on the body and mind to survive. You must quickly get another body so that you can continue to try to fulfill desires.
See, all along your life, your ten pillars, your foundation, were in the outer space of the world. Your attention was always directed outwards. So naturally you are dependent on the body to survive. You can't be without a body. What will you do? You will be in a great hurry to take another body. It is like this example. You wait in the railway station just to get into the first train that stops. You will not be bothered about which train is coming, which way it is going, which platform, etc. You will simply jump into it, that's all. If you have lived a simple life, a peaceful life, if you have had one glimpse of consciousness, a single glimpse of this turiya state, then when you leave the body, you will leave it beautifully, and you will have a VIP lounge there to wait in. There is no hurry and you take another body at your leisure. You will not be pushed and pulled by desires, guilt and painful experiences of your life. You will not be forced to take whatever next body is available. You can have a beautiful and relaxed way of living. You can wait and decide whether to take a certain available body or to wait further. It will all be your choice. All you need to do is work towards one conscious glimpse in this life and in this body.
If you have learnt to live without your body and mind for even a moment, that is what I mean when I say 'thoughtless awareness.' You will have the same thoughtless awareness at the time of leaving the body also. If you master the art of living with the body and mind, then, you will have the maturity and experience to know that whatever is taken away from you will not be you. You will have your inner space safe all the time. It is clear and there is no suffering. As of now you don't have that inner space. As of now, all we think as 'we' is based on the outer space only. Our inner space is simply corrupted with everything we encounter in the outer world. We never protect our inner space, our greatest treasure. That is the problem.