means sleeping for seven months

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This was recommended by Srila Pariksit Maharaja, the king. He said that this Krsna consciousness is bhavausadhi. Bhavausadhi means bhava. Bhava means this repeated birth and death. Bhava means you be, and again you not be-not be for few months. Our death means a sleeping for seven months. That is the description we get from the sastras. Just like you go on sleep every night, so death means to sleep for seven months, unconsciousness, very deep sleep in the womb of the mother. Then as soon as another body is grown up by the ingredients supplied by mother's body or nature, then we get back again consciousness. Just like when we sleep deeply, there is no consciousness. There is consciousness-this is called susupti, unconscious. And again, as soon as the body is complete, then we get back our consciousness. Then we become in sleepy condition. Then again, when we come out of the mother's abdomen, that is awakening state. There are three states of conditions: jagara, susupti and svapna-dreaming condition, awakening condition and unconscious or deep... Actually, we do not die. Na jayate na mriyate va kadacit [Bg 2.20]. There is no question of death. It is simply sleeping or deep sleeping, like that. (More...)

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