Does the soul choose its parents in its next life?
So does the soul choose its own parents at the time of birth? Not exactly soul chooses rather the soul is allocated based on the choices it has made in its previous life.
It's more like based on our choices based on the way we have lived in our previous life. Now we have developed a particular level of consciousness and in our next life by divine arrangement karmana daiva netrena jantor deha upapadye that as per one's karma, daiva netrena under divine supervision the process of transmigration happens jantor deha upapadye the soul gets a new body so it is by our choices but not by it is the choices which we have done throughout our life that develop that shape our consciousness and based on our consciousness we get a particular body in the next life, a particular parents so it's not exactly that the soul before dying thinks oh I am going to be born in this parents, it's not like that but the soul's choices shape the kind of parents that the soul will get in the next life. The whole arrangement is done by divine supervision our choices are definitely the determiner but it's not just our desires it's also our karma so basically getting a new body is like getting a new house so we get a new house but it's not just our desires our desire and our budget also is important so our choices are in terms of what we would like to have but also what our karmic budget is so based on that the divine will the evenitra then decides what kind of body we will get.