Desire to Live: Binding Rope

Sage Vasishtha
After the creation of the world-appearance, it became like a water-pot in which the living creatures keep coming up and going down into the blind-well, with the 'desire to live' as the binding rope. These living beings that arose in the ocean of infinite consciousness like waves and ripples entered into the physical space; and when the elements like air, fire, water and earth were evolved they became involved in them. Then the cycle of birth and death began to revolve.

The jivas come down, as it were, riding the rays of the moon, and enter into the plants and herbs. They become the fruits, as it were, of those plants; the fruits are ripened by the light of the sun. Then they are ready to incarnate. The subtle notions, ideas and mental conditioning are dormant even in the unborn being; at birth, the veil that covered them is removed.