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Death
lives before being born as a human. Sometimes it may even be for
as little as five minutes in the animal form before he returns into the
human form. There are some organisms that in a span of one
minute will change seventeen life forms. Therefore not everyone
will spend the maximum time of two hundred years in the animal
form.
One Can Tell Where He Has Come From
Questioner: Give us a scientific proof that will convince
us that a human will take birth into an animal form.
Dadashri: Have you encountered anyone who appears to
be barking like a dog when he speaks? People will say that he is
always barking. He has carried forward these traits from his
previous life as a dog. Some even behave like monkeys, so they
have been monkeys before. Some sit quiet as a cat, ready to
pounce at the slightest opportunity. One can determine where a
person has come from or where he is headed, based on his
characteristic traits. Even so it is not a permanent thing.
People of the current time cycle of Kaliyug do not know
how to sin and yet that is all they do. So what will the fruit of their
deeds be? At the most, they will spend fifty to a hundred years in
the animal form. They will not spend thousands of years there
before they come back as humans. Many even return after
spending just five years in the animal form. So do not consider
their actions as a crime, because these poor people immediately
return back into the human form. It is because their sins are not so
grave.
The Law of Growth and Destruction
Questioner: The human population has continued to
increase, does that mean that the population of the animals is