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Rebirth and Past Live

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Volumes have been written on ghosts and spirits and haunted houses. People have reported seeing apparitions and shadows and have heard their near and dear ones who have died long back. I am sure the reader would have also seen TV programmes or heard such stories. Some of you may even have experienced such happenings in your own homes.
All this is not just in the mind — it is real. Our scriptures talk in detail about the afterlife and ghosts and spirits, and also explain the reason for their existence.
On leaving the body, the spirit hovers around the physical remains for a period of 13 days. This period can become longer or unending depending upon the spirit’s attachment to its body, house, property or near and dear ones. The spirit may also stay on because of your thought — if your thought is very strongly attached to the departed soul and you are not releasing it, then that can also tie the soul to the place of its physical existence or to you.
The spirit has no relations, no friends and no home. It is free and needs to take birth as per its karmas and desires. That is why there are ceremonies across cultures to release it from the bondage of its latest life and existence. If it is unable to take birth due to lack of releasing ceremonies, its own desire or your thoughts, then it remains suspended bodyless, and becomes a ghost. How many of you wish your near and dear ones looming in the house as troubled bodyless souls?
So it is best not to live in avidya (falsehood) and assume the body to be the finality of life. It is best to listen to your Guru and do away with your bodily attachments and ego and release the departed soul.
Yogi Ashwini is an authority on the vedic sciences and the author of ‘Sanatan Kriya—The Ageless Dimension.’ He can be reached at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com.

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