Acharya Shree, does a soul choose its own parents?
This question is totally relevant these days, society.
Because everybody has doubt why I am choosing this kind of parents.
Because when they are babies, when they are in childhood, 
 they think that their parents aren't good enough. 
Maybe I could have, could have chosen different parents.
When they say that his friend or her friend have a good parents...
they assume that...doesn't mean that their friend's parents are good.  
 It seems good because you don't live with them.
Anyway, this is the one way, but in the real sense  - yes.
The soul has that freedom to choose its own parents.
Sometimes they have freedom, sometimes the karma - they take you there.
You don't have any choice.  
But it works both way.  If karma is very bad, suppose, 
A person who collected very bad karma by having a profession of criminal 
Did lot of crimes, killed lot of people, hurt lot of people, 
 hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people, if he hurt...
And it can be done.  You can hurt billions of people. 
  And you are  one person, how can you?
So then you don't have choice to choose your own parents 
 because now your karma is very heavy on you.
They will lead you somewhere wherever they want.
Because you have accumulated very very bad karma.  Very very heavy karma.
Like if a superpower country, suppose, and...
the superpower's country's president became a dictator.
And provoke a war. 
When it is, the war is provoken, what happen...
That even it is not...you cannot justify the war
But it still attack on the other country...
So billions of people can get hurt.  But if it is not justified.
If it is justified, maybe less people can get hurt.
So that kind of accumulation of karma doesn't give 
 you any choice to choose your own parents.
Because they are very heavy on you and they will 
 lead you to wherever they want to take you.
Maybe they will take you with the very bad parents.
Maybe alcoholic.  Maybe drug-addicted parents.
Maybe when you are born you are not born as a normal child.
Because of your karma.  So I will suggest to 
 you never have that criminal actions in your life.
Even though you're on the highest post, you have to ((video skips)) any 
 kind of statement which can hurt or any ((video skips again))
Millions of people.  ((Video skips again)).  ...sort of bad 
 karma into you...((skips))..when you are on the right path. 
Suppose...((skips))...begin to believe in power or some sort 
 of  religions and they are good...((skips))...
((Video skips a lot here...))  But unfortunately in this world they are 
 not good religion.  Count few of them are good religions.
So you cannot trust religion either.
But if you are lucky enough to get a good religion you are 
 beginning to walk on the right path to collect good karma.
So now you are the leader.  You become better and better 
 in your life.  A good person in the society.
But if an enlightened master like Buddha or Mahavira, 
 who is enlightened can guide you fully.
How to be the best person in the society.
Then you attract those karma, very good karma. 
And that force will not interrupt you.
It will help you to choose the right parents. 
  And now you will have choice.
Once you will have a choice, you will always choose the good parents.
I think that's what I can advise you. 
  You just be a good person.
Collect good karma.  
Be always positive.
Be less and less negative.
And negativity will be gone one day.
So, when you are in that state of being, your soul 
 allows you to choose what kind of parents you want.
And those parents will be very good.  You will 
 have that kind of environment in your childhood
in your life all the time.  That's what you need to know.
Be good.  You can be the leader!
Because you're collecting good karma and good karma helps you.
They help you, but soul is the leader - the leading force.
Once soul is the leading force, good parents, good environment, since 
 your childhood you will be in touch with those people
who can teach you even more and you will 
 always be on the right track. 
