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Giver of Human Form In order for a human being to be born, it requires the interaction between the father and mother. An astral body enters the father and stimulates a desire for contact and intimacy (via intercourse) with his wife. Once the intercourse takes place, the astral body then moves from the father into the womb of the mother. Once the child is born, the love and bond between mother and child solidifies. Every human life starts this way. Everyone has a father and a mother and we must love them enormously because they are the ones who provide us with the genetic makeup for a human form The necessity to have the human form is immeasurable, because this is the only form that is able to perform and accumulate merit and to pursue Perfections until we attain Nibbana. Celestial beings and Brahmas (higher spiritual beings) are beings that enjoy the fruits of their past wholesome deeds, while animals, hungry ghosts, demons and hell creatures are doomed to suffer in the unhappy realms and certainly cannot perform merit. Our parents gave us the greatest gift of all - the human form. They endured the overwhelming task of raising us until we grow up. They provided us with education, advice, encouragement and gave us moral support when we were disheartened. It is through this human form that we are able to practice meditation, cultivate and purify our minds and to pursue Perfections in order to reach the ultimate goal of liberation through Nibbana. These virtues are beyond description. They deserve to have our unconditional love, loyalty and respect. Attracting the Soul Prepared for Birth The child that is going to be born to a father and a mother needs his or her own merits as well as those of the parents' as the driving force for their birth. If the parents have accumulated merit while making an earnest wish to conceive a worthy child, the power of their merits will attract a soul with equivalent merits to be born. This is a kind of 'selective process' where likes attract. Worthy parents will be blessed with a worthy PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com