Religion is the context of GOD to establish peace and justice in
this world. In this context, you must control your bad qualities so that you
will not disturb the peace and justice and will not harm any good person in
this world. If you disturb the world by your bad qualities, God will punish
you. But, in this context, it is sufficient if you control the bad qualities
since you cannot remove them. The Religion ends here. Some religions strictly
end here without any spiritualism.
The spiritualism is the context in which you have to make
efforts to reach God. In this context, you need not even control your bad
qualities because, God has no personal objection towards your bad qualities.
Then, for what, our effort should be made? Our effort should be concentrated to
achieve ‘Bhakthi’ which is the love on God. ‘Bhakthi’ is achieved and is grown
by the knowledge of God.
For example, you came to know that Bombay City
exists. This is the knowledge of existence of Bombay. By this you want to see Bombay. As you know the
details of Bombay
more and more, your desire to see the city becomes more and more. Knowing
details about the Bombay
City is again the further
knowledge. So, knowledge is directly proportional to desire. First Rukmini
heard that there is Lord Krishna on this earth. As she heard more and more
about Lord Krishna from Sage Narada, her love on Krishna
increased enormously. Narada means he who gives knowledge. Therefore, `Jnana’(knowledge)
generates and develops ‘Bhakti (devotion)’. Due to Bhakthi, the Lord is
attained. Gita says the same `ONLY BY BHAKTHI I AM ATTAINED' (`Bhaktya………').
Regarding the query on re-birth, in Hinduism also Sankara says
that again human birth is almost impossible (Jantunaam Nara Janma
Durlabhamidam).Hindus misunderstood the concept.The human rebirth is only for
Yoga Bhrashta i.e., the soul, which has reached Brahmaloka and fell due to some
slip. Such a soul is suspended from Brahmaloka and comes down to the earth and
takes rebirth as a human being only.