It is generally perceived that, Garbo Upanishad by Sage Pippalada is a minor Upanishad. But I disagree. The true content of this phenomenal literary work is lost in time and needs to be recovered and processed to fully understand its contribution. For me, this literary work may be holding the key to understand what happens in the Prakruti and for a recently deceased soul when it transgresses from death to another birth, assuming its karmic load is preventing it from ascending to heavens.

I also believe that the consideration as a minor Upanishad should not be made based on the length of the content but on the weight of its true content. This is also true in case of another Upanishad – The Mandukya Upanishad, which too like Garbo Upanishad is considered minor based on its length, but when read by an intelligent mind, behaves like a bolt from the sky - releasing enormous amount of grandeur. These contents may shock us for a long time!

There is another reason why the true contents of the Garbo Upanishad and any similar related ancient texts should be recovered if possible. They try to also solve the purported social issues related to the acceptance of same sex couples in the society by dropping essential hints on the natural processes related to the (human) soul entering a womb.

I would like to mention that I am a straight heterosexual person. But I like to have an unbiased mindset. I constantly lookout for universal truths and righteousness to being in peace and bring acceptance to my mind.

From the above-mentioned texts, that too in incomplete parts, I understand, and I try to connect the dots and complete the logical picture about what happens to the soul looking out for a new womb. The following is considered to be true:

• In humans, only the gross physical body (Sthula Sharira) has the sexual organ. And the mind, considered to be part of the dimension-1 universe, takes the identity of a male or female based on the predisposition at birth.

• The astral body or ghost body (Sukshma Sharira) is transient body and will not support the basic functions of eating, sleeping and fornicating. Hence ghost assumes the identity as male or female only based on the legacy status of the mind when it was hosted still in a living body.

• The Soul (Karana Sharira) is asexual. It only stores impressions, and these impressions can be from any of the past lives, in which the soul might have born as a male or female or anything else.

• A soul can have an overwhelming sense of masculinity and hence will have the tendency to be born as a male. Similarly, a soul can have an overwhelming sense of femininity and hence will have the tendency to be born as a female. Similarly the soul may have no overwhelming sense of masculinity or femininity and may have the tendency to be born as anything that it wants to be at the time of fusion to the egg/embryo.

• Super souls and advanced souls try to be born in the same sex as when they were existing in the higher realms or in their previous births. They also do not change their preference about their natural sexual orientation when they appear as avatars.

• Sometimes, overwhelming karmic loads can make a soul to be born as a male or a female.

• Sometimes, the surrounding group karmic influence (say a soul being born in a society that prefers male child), or some remnant past boons/curses/rules etc., can make a soul to be born as a male or a female.

• Some super souls may have personal preferences to be born as a male or a female or anything else based on the planned goals and objectives of the intended avatar.

• For some souls, they may have a slightly majority inclination towards masculinity and for some souls, they may have a slightly majority inclination towards femininity. In either of the case, and at the time of fusion to the egg, the Garbo Upanishad says that they get a glimpse of the male/female pairs that are/were in sexual union intending to cause the fusion of the soul to the egg/embryo (there is still some confusion around the time of fusion of the soul to the egg/embryo). At time, the soul may show a preference or likeness for either the male or the female. We have to note that for some advanced and super souls this preference is preset due to their legacy preference of sexual orientation.

  • Based on the above context, the following, but less probable, outcomes may happen:

    
    

    1.      A soul which is to be born as male may have a liking for the male of the fused pair and hence, they may end up as a male having gay sexual orientation.

    2.      A soul which is to be born as female may have a liking for the female of the fused pair and hence, they may end up as a female having lesbian sexual orientation.

    3.      The other states of LGBTQ+ can be explained based on the degree of liking that the fusing soul may have on the male or female or both, that caused the fusion.

  
  

• But what we have to be looking at in these outcomes is that these cases have slightly lesser probability of occurrence as nature seems to prefer heterosexuality.

• Also, IVF is a relatively new procedure and I believe that the soul may still witness the involved male and female, at some stage while fusing with the embryo.

• I have no issues with accepting this natural process induced sexual orientations and the society should accept them for their natural tendency and extend equal rights and other perks that a normal citizen of the state receives. There cannot be any persecutions for their natural preferences.

• But if the sexual orientation is set through some artificial process, say for instance by a sub-culture existing in places of gathering such as dorms, it takes a poisonous propensity. It leads to an abnormal state of the society where, say for example, more men may become gays while the women stay normal! Then this state of the society becomes a silent and gathering storm leading to decadency and other untellable problems.

  Let us have the highest respect for the natural processes and let the natural tendencies stay natural and let us not let anybody/any-group mess with that through artificial and abnormal sub-cultures!

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbha_Upanishad

Swami Sarvapriyananda: Mandukya Upanishad, 1 of 6  -(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scLipiyG6ns&list=PLffj4m28VxZCbPl9erWwV3wNBhfbkjOI7)

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