The human body is constituted of five things (the five forces of earth, air, water, fire and ether) and is of six shelters (like the physical, ethereal and so on). Look deep within you as you read these words, do they ring a bell? Do they sound true? Ask yourself! Your SELF will reply! गर्भोपनिषद् Arjuna in the Bhagvad Geeta asked Krishna, what happens, if man dies while putting in his effort to learn about Spiritual truths in one life? And Krishna answers, as it is very heartening to note, that a jivatman, takes off, from where he left off, in his spiritual efforts. But alas! When the child is born, a force called the ‘Vaishnava Prana’ touches him, and he forgets his thoughts and prayer. The Garbha Upanishad states that, the fetus promises God, that he will not repeat his evil deeds. The reason is that while in the womb, the fetus is not distracted by the senses, and its connection with the attractions and distractions of the outside world. So now the soul, impregnated and imprisoned within the mother, goes through physical and emotional turmoil. He now realizes the fact that he is going to incarnate once again to go through trials and tribulations, whose main objective is that he learns through pain, to become, what he intrinsically is: An image of God! You will find this entire treatise in a question and answer form which is the actual form of every Upanishad. When the brain of the fetus forms, its active mind is more active than that of children and/or adults. It expounds the details of what human consciousness goes through, while it still resides in the womb, in the form of a fetus. Garbha Upanishad is an Upanishad or a treatise which has been told by a Teacher to a student (Upa + Nishat = to the one who is sitting, from a higher plan to the one which is learning). Let there be Peace in the forces that act on us!
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