Death. Mans most, relentless, inevitable and mysterious adversary.
Does death mean the end of life, or does it merely open the door to another life, another dimension, another world?
Or another death?
The succession of birth and death is viewed as an endless continuity, an eternal wheel rolling on forever. Only time stands between one face and another.
All major western religions have definite threads of reincarnation throughout the fabric of their teachings.
The first Law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Consciousness is the expression of energy, the soul with in the body.
Nobel laureate in physics, Niels Bohr, has said "We can admittedly find nothing in physics or chemistry that has even a remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all of us know about consciousness, because we have it ourselves. Therefore consciousness must be part of a different nature."
Wolfgang Von Goethe has commented that as long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark earth.
Socrates said that he was confident that there truly is such a thing as living again.
Carl Jung questions, "Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution? "
Ralph Waldo Emerson states it clearly, "The soul comes from without into the human body and it goes out again.... the soul is immortal."
According to the type of food taken the body is developed. In the same way the material personality develops according to different experiences, both in this life and in past lives. The influence of past experiences in past lives is reflected on the present.
Death means to forget. Forgetfulness is our nature, but forgetting something does not mean that it did not happen.
Reincarnation means that the eternal living entity transmigrates from one material body to another, even on another planet or dimension.
From the Vedic understanding we can know that it is a mistake to think that you are the body and possess a soul. You are the soul, and you are covered by a temporary body.
The soul takes one of 8,400,000 forms and, once embodied in a certain species of life, evolves automatically from lower to higher forms, ultimately attaining again a human life.
The Supreme Lord is situated in every ones heart and dictating the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of material energy (Bhagavad-Gita 18.61)
There are several subtle channels called "nadis" in which the soul can leave for the next body. However, the Lord knowing the destination due to past and present activities, illuminates the correct one.
Many people believe in reincarnation, but few really understand the need to get out of this endless cycle of birth and death and return to ones eternal original nature which is full of eternity, bliss and knowledge.
The Bhagavad-Gita describes another nature which is eternal, transcendental, never annihilated and is known as the supreme destination, a place from which, having attained one never returns.
The Lord says, " One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take birth again in this material world, but attains my eternal abode." (Bhagavad-Gita 4.9)
Comments