Is Next birth birth with the same relatives possible? Clear details!
A woman devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Some karmic relationships we have will be compensated in our next birth. So do we meet those souls in another birth. Also soul mates concept is it completely baseless? Hare Krishna.”
REPLY:
It is not always possible to meet the same relatives in next birth or births. It is not at all in the system of karma system.
I have seen this type of discussions whenever a child takes birth in a family (You too would have heard):
“Oh, surely, this child should be the rebirth of my father/ grandfather who died last month/ year”
(How to know whether we have taken many births or just fallen from Goloka? READ HERE!)
If it is the female child, they will consider that child as the rebirth of deceased mother, grand mother, etc.
Some persons declare like this: “Don’t worry if I die. I will marry you in my next birth also and birth after births. Even the death can’t separate us permanently.”
Is such rebirths in the same family is in the System of karma network?
Sorry, it is not the system of karma network.
Moreover, it is not always possible, because the rebirth may take years, decades and even centuries if he had plenty of punya or papa (good or bad deeds) that gifts him a certain period of life in the heavens or hells.
If you like to meet the same relatives in the next birth, you and he should take birth at the same period and place. But, for that, you and they should face similar period of hell or heaven term. You may take next birth within ten years. If your relative takes rebirth after 100 years, you would have died again by then after living with some other relatives.
You may remember the deceased person. But, the deceased person will not remember you after taking a new body.
He can remember you only till he is allowed in the heavens or hells for a few years and allowed to stay/ wait in the Pitru Loka for a few months or years in a special body given to him. After that, he has to take rebirth.
(How long will it take for the rebirth of a deceased person? READ HERE!)
To facilitate the rebirth, the temporary body given to live in hells, heavens and pitru loka are taken back and he is left as an individual athma along with the sukshma body (invisible/ subtle body made up of mind, intelligence and ego of his previous body).
That means, the athma is allowed to spread out above earth or any other material planet along with the previous attachments recorded in the sukshma body.
He falls on ground with rain, enters into the vegetables body and reside there. When a man eats that vegetable, the athma enters into his body and mingles with his blood that is converted into semen later. Thus the athma enters the male body’s semen.
When he leaves his sperm cells into a woman’s uterus, the athma is now given a new body inside the womb.
(I have also explained the leaving and entry of athma from and into the bodies in THIS POST)
Now, it forgets all the memory of its previous births, his life in pitru loka, heavens, hells, etc.
The new father whom the athma has got may be a new person who was not be related to him in his previous birth. In case he happens to be the athma’s relative in the previous birth, it must be accidental, not intentional or preplanned.
Because, the person may take birth even as an animal or bird or insect or as a human being.
What the karma network ensures is that THE ATHMA GETS A NEW BODY BASED ON ITS DESIRES AND PREFERENCES WHEN IT WAS IN ITS PREVIOUS BODY. That’s all. The relation of that athma with the previous body ended even when that athma left that body.
(If karma decides our next birth, how did we take first birth without karma? READ HERE!)
The actors, i.e., relatives in this new life are new. Only the script, ie, nature of next life is written by ourselves in our previous birth itself. Same actors are not compulsory to act in the new life drama also.
So, we can’t meet our present relatives in our next birth. If we meet, it must be a coincidence and we will not know that he was our relative in our previous body.
Are you clear now?
You asked about soulmate. That means, can we have the same spouse in the next birth(s) also. I have explained that in THIS POST in detail. Read that.