Given a choice at the gates of the heavens would you prefer to be born again

Birth - Do you like this place?
By Bala
@balasri (26537)
India
August 25, 2009 4:51am CST
in this world or rather prefer not to visit this place ever?
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20 responses
@kitty42 (3923)
• United States
25 Aug 09
Hi balasri What a great question , I think I would rather not return if given the choice , once it is over let it be over, I will relax and watch others , maybe I should think about this some more lol, I did think about this before and at that time I wanted to come back, so I may change my mind lol
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Thanks for the appreciation Kitty.And will the heaven will be as interesting and vibrant as ourown world?
@kitty42 (3923)
• United States
26 Aug 09
Hi balasri I am hoping it will be a whole lot better than this place, nothing but peace and serenity
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
I know.I just wanted toget it out from you.
@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
25 Aug 09
Hi balaji...How are you.......after long time ... what a question....... Well!!!if this world is going to remain as it is today....full of crime and injustice, with no peace, then I don't think I would ever want to come back here to suffer and to see our children suffer. Unless God offer me special choice that if I am born, then Bala will remain with me whole life speaking and singing Hindi.....
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Hi Apsara,where were you all the time.I kind of missed you.How is everythig? And thanks a lot for wishing to remain with me.I am thrilled and honored friend. "Roj naya khaab de de jinadagi, aisi hasin saja de jannat jaha, jannat yaha"
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
It is my pleasure Apsara. Do visit as whenever you can. This is a great place to unwind.
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@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
26 Aug 09
wow...what a high standard shayeri...wah wah.......Btw....yeh tumko Shayar kisne bana diya... I miss you too Bala, infact I miss mylot and those old days when I use to be here regularly. I don't know why I have suddenly lost interest in everything...,but friends like you do bring me here from time to time..I will try to come more often as it will be my loss if I loose contact with such good friends that I have found here on mylot. Indeed if friends are like you....jaanat yehi hai........Thanks a lot for everything.
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I would prefer to be born again. I've had a good life and would like to continue on again later once I've left this world. I have alot to do yet and also want to see our grandkids grow up to be fine adults just as kids have done. I did have a rough start since I was adopted. Would like to start my life over around the age of 16. Those were the good years.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
That is so nice to listen to Carolbee.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
26 Aug 09
Why thank you.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
25 Aug 09
Hi Bala! Given the choice, I would like to be born again on the planet Earth, may be in a different avatar from the present one. What about you?
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@balasri (26537)
• India
25 Aug 09
If I could be able to be born in the same family and could have the same kind of wife and daughter I would like to be born again Alok.
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Nothing but the last letter in your name Deepak "K".I might have played trick with my eyes and mind.Age is catching up Deepak.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
25 Aug 09
Hi Bala! I hope our dear Bhabhiji and sweet little princess would be very happy to read your declaration, but what made you write Alok, at the end?
• United States
26 Aug 09
Absolutely. Born again, is something that i would hope everyone would want. We go through two births during our time. I was baptized several years ago, but would gladly go through it again.
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
I like the way you like the life friend.Quite exiting and refreshing to listen to what you say.
• United States
26 Aug 09
Thanks very much. I do enjoy life. I work hard, study hard, and live quite a full life, yet, i think there is more that i need to be doing.
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
25 Aug 09
Honestly, Id really rather not be born again either as a person or an object or animal. Id prefer to be in that state of "Nirvana" so to speak. I sure wont mind visiting this place and perhaps observing what has become of the people in general. Observe their actions, their thoughts, their feelings and their reactions. But I really would not want to become one of the participants again. However, whether my preferences are met, I really do not have the power to choose. It will still be up to "Him" if he deems fit if I have to go back to the earthly world and live again.
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Hope and wish that He would take the right decision.
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@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
29 Aug 09
I hope so too.LOL
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I would choose not to be born again if given the choice. The only way I would want to come back, is if I can be with my same family again and if they were still living with me also. I would not want to start over alone.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
You just cannot start all over alone.Atlease you got to have two people.Your mom and Dad.
@2babita (1072)
• India
26 Aug 09
Well,if i get a chance to be born again,i obviously come back.In this beautiful world i want to spend more time bucz once i enter into the gate of heaven i won't get chance to enjoy earthly enjoyment.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
That is the spirit Babita .No pun intended.Let your spirit fly back from heavens to this beautiful earth.
• United States
26 Aug 09
Can I just go to heaven? I've always been scared of the idea of reincarnation where you are reborned as a different person without the memories of the life I had. When I was little, I would imagine being in an accident and being reborned into a neighbor's house and not recognizing my family. It was a scary thought. I would choose not to be born again
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Strangely or by coincidnece I too have that same fear.What if I am born again without the same comfort and as a stray dog or something that has been chased and stoned all through it's life.God a gruesome thought .Isn't it?
25 Aug 09
Hi bala, Knowing what this world is like now and know what it will be like in the future, I don't think I would like to come to be reborn and if I do I'll come back as a man, they have life too easy, lol!! I'll just be a ghost instead and scare the living, lol!! Tamara
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
That sure is another great option I have not thought of.Neither there nor here.Perfectly in limbo as a ghost.Wow.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
25 Aug 09
Hi balasri! Excellent question! I have had a pretty unpleasant life for the most part. I don't think I would want to take the chance of returning if it could mean having another miserable one! So, I think that I don't want to return to the earth the way it is now with all the crime and suffering. When I leave here I hope that I will finally find some peace!
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Wish all your dreams come true Opal.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
26 Aug 09
I would choose to go into Heaven because unless I was able to come back to my loved ones I could not think of anything worse than coming back to a new life and all its hassles! I hope that I will learn as much as I can while I am here and will not have to return!
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Once seems to be more than enogh for you Paula.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
25 Aug 09
Hi Bala! I guess it would depend on if they were going to let me in or not..lol..I know I could do a lot better the second time around but if they were going to let me in..no way I would want to come back. It might be tougher for me then.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Well no harm in trying Jen.
• United States
27 Aug 09
Thank you for a very thought provoking question. I think I would return the this world if given the chance but I would also like to keep my knowledge so I could live a life better than the last and repeat this for an eternety untill i know everything (which of course would never happen :) )
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@balasri (26537)
• India
27 Aug 09
I am with you.I think that we belong to earth as human beings than anywhere else. Thanks for the appreciation.
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
29 Aug 09
Bala, no matter what life is such a precious thing, be it the good or bad i think it's a must go through. Now whether we choose to remember the past life is another matter.So if we don't then does it really matter ?
@balasri (26537)
• India
30 Aug 09
To be frank you are so philosophic that I could not read your mind on your desicion.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
25 Aug 09
I do NOT wish to be born in thsi world ever again Bala. THere is no guarantee as to how life would be .THere is so much of poverty, misery and difficulties in the world. I have been very fortunate this time and GOd has blessed me with His grace and bounty ; I wish to attain the Lord's Lotus feet in this birth itself and never be born again.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
Your response is reeking with honesty.True God has been kind to me too.There is no guarantee that I will make myself worthy of His blessings if I am born again.Chances are that I may be born as a rich politician or a thief.I do not want to take any chances Kala.
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• India
25 Aug 09
Quite an interesting question, Balasri. I have gone through the other answers,and none of the people are interested in coming back to this useless world. As far as I am concerned, I want to get out of this world immediately.So given a chance, I am certainly not going to come back.
@balasri (26537)
• India
25 Aug 09
Count me in too Ramesh.
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I would prefer to be born again only if there is no more crime in this world. Imagined a world with only kind and compassionate people.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
If our worold becomes a place of your wish and imagination there won't be a need for a heaven up there.God will srap that heaven the day jour world becomes the place of your dreams.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
25 Aug 09
Hi bala, Another imaginary question and the preference are giving between heaven and earth. I won’t prefer to born again instead I will prefer to stay in heaven.
@balasri (26537)
• India
26 Aug 09
And if the preference is between the hell and earth?
• United States
25 Aug 09
That is a tough question! I dont know what i would choose I dont even think that I can choose On one hand I know there is more that I can learn here and that I would benifit from another life on Earth but on the other hand I am very excited and curious about what is beyond this plane of existance I would probably have to flip a coin Do they have coins at the gates of heaven?
@balasri (26537)
• India
25 Aug 09
Yeah they have the real gold ones.But I am not sure whether they are double headed or not Zu.