"d) How long is the next journey after reincarnation ?
Madhava: While commenting on Garuda purana my teacher
told me that
birth is
swift and immediate. It takes four months (to be a
part of a rice plant)soul enters in to the human body
as the food consumed. It is difficult to
explain but definitely nobody hangs in the ether or
sky. They are born within no time. Droped as rain
and sucked by roots, or breathed from air
through plant leaves, it starts with vegitation. At
the lowest level of nature"
I am with sri Raghavarao in most of what he said.
But,it takes atleast one year for the soul to find a womb, and reincarnate.
that's why, religious rites are prescribed for one year, so that the soul settles its mind, recognises it's soul form and tne need for rebirth, then chooses it's parents.