Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Thoughts on Abi'l-Khayr
I liked this reading. I thought it was interesting the way it said explained that before God created bodies, He created souls that He kept beside himself, and He shed a light upon them, and that "the souls remained all that time in the light, until they became fully nourished." and that "Those who in this world live in joy and agreement with one another must have been akin to one another in that place." I've never thought about our souls like that, but its very interesting. Maybe that's how we sometimes feel like we've known each other before. But who know's really exactly for sure where our souls came from or how we were really created and all of that. I still like that idea though. I was watching a re-run of Silvia Brown on the Montel show, and she talks a lot about reincarnation... i dont know but just makes me think. I mean, as a Christian, i wasn't really brought up to believe in reincarnation, but who knows. Who really knows? So i try to be open minded to a lot of different religions and beliefs.
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What an awesome concept to think that we feel as though we sometimes recognize other people or bond with them because we all were in one place once and knew each other there. I didn't even think of it that way when I read the passage.
ReplyDeleteI also think reincarnation is a really interesting idea. My parents always joked that I was "an old soul" and was named after the Hindu goddess Kali (consort to Shiva I believe) so I was brought up thinking that reincarnation wasn't taboo. However, there are so many manifestations of multiple lives - a prelife, life, and death; mulitple lives to reach nirvana and so on.
Nice blog. :)