![]() What gender or form you take is determined by the type of longing that you create. When they were longing for the women’s ability to love the Buddha and connect with him emotionally, they unknowingly aspired to become women. It was their tendency, their longing for what the women were having. Depending upon your tendencies, to fulfill those tendencies, what kind of body would assist you best, that is what you get. Nature is not thinking in terms of punishment or reward. People think it is a punishment to come back as a pig. The next time, you may come back as someone’s pet pig, really well-fed. Let’s say you long to eat continuously and you happen to die at that time. The next time, you may come back as someone’s pet pig.ĭepending upon your longings, depending upon your tendencies, nature gives you an appropriate body. They were shocked, “We did so much sadhana – did Gautama abandon us? Why didn’t he make us monks once again? Now we are here with our children, our husbands, and this whole drama.” This happened because they had envied the women. After a certain period of time, they realized who they had been, and that now they had become women. Because of that longing, a lot of those monks came back as women in their next birth. Somewhere within them, there was a longing to be connected with the Buddha like the women were. They loved him and the Buddha looked at them gently. These men were sitting and meditating hard, but these women were just looking at the Buddha, and tears were flowing down. This was because it is very natural for a woman to make a very deep emotional contact. So the monks who sat there as men, noticed one thing – the female monks’ contact with the Buddha seemed to be better than that of the male monks. In those days, a woman could not renounce when the children were below a certain age. When they had sat with the Buddha, the male monks greatly exceeded the women in numbers – mainly due to cultural reasons. It so happened that a lot of monks were reborn as women. It happens to people, it happened around certain yogis, and it definitely happened around Gautama Buddha. All this could be determined by your tendencies. Gender, even species, need not necessarily be the same. I have a very immediate experience of this in many different ways with quite a few people. There are people around me who are of a different gender now than what they were in an earlier life. Question: When someone reincarnates, does one usually come back as the same gender? Sadhguru answers a question on whether one’s past life can affect their body and form in their present life. ![]()
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