Incarnations
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​     Once upon a yogi time, there was a very rich man. He had everything for which a person could want or wish. Now there was only one thing wrong with his life. He had poor health.  No amount of money spent, no number of specialists could improve his health.
Now on the day of his death, he prayed very, very hard to God that in his next life he would have good health; nothing else was important, just good health.
Now, in his next incarnation he had a robust body with excellent health. However, he was very, very poor. He never complained. He was happy to have good health.
​​However, after many years of being very poor, he began to die of starvation.

 Now on his death bed he prayed to God again, saying, “In my next life I would like good health and also money to buy food to keep the body strong. 
​Thus, in his next life he was born healthy and rich.  However, as the decade passed, he thought, what is health and riches, if there is no one to share it with. Thus, on his death bed he talked to God again and say, "In my next life, let me be healthy, rich and give me a wife.”

     So it was that in his next incarnation he was reborn healthy, rich and in time he was married to a woman who was very beautiful, but who was a shrew. Thus, his life was awful. Thus on his death bed, he prayed, “Lord in my next life make me healthy, wealthy, and with a wife with faithful, warm and humorous personality.”

     Thus, in his next incarnation he was born healthy, wealthy, and at a very young age married a warm and faithful wife. Kim was most happy; happy beyond belief.  But after just a few years of married bliss, his wife suddenly died of a heart attack. Kim went into a deep, deep depression and never recovered.  Thus it was on his death bed that he again called upon God, and said, “Lord, in my next life, make me healthy, wealthy, and married to a faithful wife, who will live as long as me.”

     Thus, in his next life, he had that which he wished. However as the years pass his wife lost most of her youthfulness.  Now, Kim became attached to younger women, and although he dearly loved his wife, he needed, so he thought, a younger woman. Divorce came, re-marriage came, and the new wife stayed with him just long enough to obtained all his wealth, and then left him for a younger man.

     Depressed that he lost his faithful wife, and his wealth, his body slipped into poor health. On his death bed he called upon God and rather than asking for a specific life, he began to meditate seeking to find that which would give him the happiness that he had been seeking all those incarnations. In that meditation the Lord appeared and said to him, “
    In your first incarnation you asked for wealth, and you attained it, but you did not find happiness.
In your second incarnation you asked for health, and you attained to it, but you did not find happiness.
In the third incarnation you asked for health and wealth, and you attained to them, but you did not find happiness.
In the fourth incarnation you asked for health, wealth and a wife and you attained to them, but you did not find happiness.
In the fifth incarnation you asked for health, wealth and a faithful wife and you attained to them, but you did not find happiness.
In the sixth incarnation you asked for health, wealth and a peaceful wife and you attained to them, but you did not find happiness. In the seventh incarnation you ask for health, wealth and a peaceful wife, who would live a long time, and you attained to them, but you did not find happiness.
In the eighth incarnation you asked for a health, wealth and a peaceful wife, who would live a long time, and you attained to them, but you did not find happiness."
Then the Lord asked Kim,
"What do you want in your next incarnation?”
Kim replied, “I don’t know.”
With this the Lord asked,
“What were you trying to do by asking for the designer-made incarnations?”
Kim answered saying,
“I wanted to be happy.” to which the Lord answered,
“Then why not just ask for that?”
To this question, Kim answered,
“Lord, in my next incarnations, and all incarnations thereafter, I wish to be born wise, so that I might be forever happy.”  
And Kim attained to wisdom, and he did find eternal happiness.