Dear All,

I heard from a Swamiji that after the human death, the soul departes as "Sukshma Deha" (Micro body) and will start it's journey towards other worlds (lokas) and depending on the KARMA the Soul may go to better world or a bad world and that soul after experiencing the other world for the time decided ( good or bad karma, once the karma is attached soul would not reach the PARABRAHMA) will be reborn. I also heard that " It will take three life time for a departed soul to take rebirth on earth"

My questin is

1) Will the Soul be in the form of "Sukshma Deha" untill it is reborn on earth again as per his KARMA?
2) Is there any significant reason for the soul to take 3 life times before being reborn ?

Kindly explain
Thanks
SuBrahman

<< 1) Will the Soul be in the form of "Sukshma Deha" untill it is reborn on earth again as per his KARMA? >>

a soul is in pure sat-chit ananda- state.
when it has deisres to enjoy and control teh material workd independent of krishna, then it get bundeled woth these desires, and is called ajiva or suksham deha.
untlil the jive ives up all the diseres except to sever krishnam he will have suksham deha.

<< 2) Is there any significant reason for the soul to take 3 life times before being reborn ? >>

this i have not heard. i am inclined to not believe it at this time. but garuda purana must have the full information about this. i have not read it yet.

hope it helps.