Dear Prabhakar, Sri Madhavakkannan (whom I know from Singapore!) and Sri Sukumar have given some excellent explanations. Wrt the question, "Then my christian friend asked me do you know about Re-incarnation ?", one of my friends gave an interesting explanation. If you send a fax, you can get a confirmation for the receipt of the fax by ringing the receiving person and cross-checking. In database and other Information technology (computer science, etc) areas, there are well defined protocols for verification and validation (typically called, handshaking, commit-protocols, etc). Obviously this friend of mine is an IT guy. However, it does not answer the query. He then elaborated as follows: You have different sensors and media for communication, verification, etc. One cannot see a fax being sent, so one uses a different channel for verification. One cannot see microwaves, but rice cooks well in microwave oven also and one feels this through different sensors. The truth about re-incarnation will be felt only by those who have these types of sensors (read, knowledge, wisdom and the Lord's grace). For example, Bhisma knew long time back who Karna was. The hunter who sent the arrow at Lord Krishna's toe did not know who he was, until Krishna Himself told him (that he is the re-incarnation of Vali from Ramayana period). It is said that Thyagaraja (of the sankeertha mummoorthy) is a re-incarnation of Valmiki (and people say that he knew that himself, while he was alive). Indeed, even during the Mahabharata war, Arjuna wanted to see Krishna in His full form - i.e., Vishwaroopa darsanam. With his human eyes, Arjuna cannot see Vishwaroopa darsanam. So the Lord gave him a special visualization mechanism to see Him. (Hum, this also perhaps encourages us to do eye or organ donation!). Does this answer your query Prabhakar? dasan Lakshminarasimhan (Western Kentucky) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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