Rampa Lobsang Feeding the Flame

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they decide they cannot be a drop-out from the school of
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Earth, they must go back, do their lessons properly and pass
the examinations.
They make their decision known and then they are taken
to a special group of people who have vast experience and
some very, very remarkable instruments. It is determined
what the person has to learn, it is determined how best he
may learn it go to a poor family, will that help? Or should
he go to a rich family? Should he be a white man or a
colored man, or should he be a woman, colored or white?
It depends on the sort of mess he made of his last life, it de-
pends on how hard he is prepared to work in the coming life,
it depends on what he has to learn. Anyhow, the advisers
are well qualified to help him, they can suggest - and they
suggest only the type of parents, the type of country, and
the conditions. Then when he has agreed to the conditions
certain instruments are brought into play and the necessary
parents-to-be are located. Alternative parents are located as
well, and these parents are observed for a short time. Then,
if everything proves satisfactory, the person who is ready to
reincarnate goes to a special home in the astral world. There
he goes to bed, and when he wakes up he is in the process of
being born into the Earth. No wonder he makes such a com-
motion and lets out wails of despair!
Many people, entities, decide they do not want to return
to Earth just yet, and so they stay in the astral worlds where
they have much work to do. But before discussing them let
us deal with a special class of people who have no choice;
suicides.
If a person has willfully ended his or her life on Earth
before the allotted number of years, then that person has to
return to Earth as fast as possible in order to serve out the
unexpired time, just as if they were a convict who had es-
caped and had been recaptured, and had had a bit tacked on
as an extra punishment.
A suicide gets into the astral world. He is met, received,
just as if he were an ordinary legitimate person coming back,
no recriminations, nothing of that type at all. He is treated
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precisely the same as other entrants. He is allowed a reason-
able time in which to recover from the shock of leaving the
physical body probably violently, and entering the astral.
When he has recovered sufficiently he has to go to the
Hall of Memories, and there he sees all that has ever hap-
pened to him, he sees the flaws which really made him
commit suicide. And so he is left with the awful feeling, the
awful knowledge would be a better term, that he has to get
back to Earth and live out the unexpired term.
Possibly the suicide is a person of poor spiritual caliber,
possibly he lacks the intestinal fortitude to go back on Earth,
and he thinks he is just jolly well going to stay in the astral
and nobody can do anything about it. Well, he is wrong
there because it is a law that a suicide has to return to Earth;
and if he will not return of his own free will, then he is
compelled to go.
If he is willing to return, then, at a meeting with special
counselors, he is advised of how many days or years there
are remaining to him on his Earth sentence . He has to live
out all that time on Earth, he also has to live out all the time
that has elapsed since he committed suicide and before re-
turning to Earth again. So, perhaps it took a year to
straighten him out and get him to decide that he had to go
back to Earth, thus he gets a year added to his life on
Earth.
Conditions are found on Earth so that he can return and
encounter substantially the same type of conditions which
caused him to take his life before, and then at the appointed
time he is put to sleep and awakens to the act of being
born.
If he proves recalcitrant and just will make no move to go
back to Earth, then the counselors decide for him on con-
ditions which would meet his case. If he will not go freely
then the conditions are a bit tougher than if he did go freely.
Then, again at the appointed time, he is put to sleep without
him having any choice whatever in the matter, he is put to
sleep and when he wakes up he is back on Earth.
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It is often the case that a baby who is born and dies
perhaps a month or two after is the reincarnation of a person
who committed suicide rather than perhaps face two or
three months of agony when they were dying from in-
curable, inoperable cancer. The sufferer may have taken his
own life two or three, or perhaps six months or a year before
he would naturally have died. But he still has to come back
and serve out all the time which he tried to short-circuit.
It is sometimes thought that pain is a useless thing,
suffering is a useless thing. It is sometimes thought that it is
good to kill off a human who is incurable, but do these
people who advocate such a course really know what the
sufferer is trying to learn? His very suffering, the very nature
of his illness may be something about which he desired to
learn.
People often write to me and say, Oh, Dr. Rampa, with
all your knowledge how is it that you have to suffer so? Why
don't you cure yourself and live for ever? But, of course, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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