REINCARNATION

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C

 

Nice posting about mother india.

 

<<musing in "D">>

 

Is that a musical note? <-O<<<<

 

According to vedic music D is the note Rishava for Mercury. High D is for

Gemini and D flat is for Virgo.

 

best wishes

natabara

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Re: the previous thread from Rick, "We in fact do not know if

reincarnation is happening, and if it is, how it is, or even if it

follows a pattern. We in fact know nothing at all about this

subject, but we have lots of inference and built up belief systems

around it."

 

As we know, there are references to reincarnation in the

_Upanishads_, the _Puranas_, the _Bhagavad-Gita_, both the Old and

New Testaments of the Bible, and in the Buddha's teachings.

Countless other enlightened sages whom some of us trust to be "in

the know" have told us that reincarnation "is happening."

Contemporary travelers of the inner realms, like Robert Monroe and

William Buhlman, along with slews of ordinary people recounting near-

death experiences, have also shared direct experiences that seem to

confirm reincarnation. This is about all we have to go on in our

present unawakened state of being.

 

P.D. Ouspensky wrote in _The Fourth Way_ that "If you think you

can be convinced [about theories of reincarnation], it will just be

belief...And we cannot have evidence because of our state of

consciousness...Only essence can remember [past lives], and since in

ordinary man essence is unorganized and not separated from

personality, we do not remember."

 

Meanwhile, I choose to trust what the awakened masters tell me,

maintaining a posture of faith, all the while seeking inner

liberation and the direct experience of truth that will allow me to

transcend the need for "belief."

 

Love and LIGHT,

Juliana S.

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Reincarnation - a big topic in eastern philosophy. I agree with Rick

that we can not 'know' if it is happening. In this context - I think

he means 'know' like to see or experience. Normally we cannot -

there are some exceptions like people who under hypnosis claim

things that seem true etc. But, those are exceptions (like persons

with physical or mental exceptions etc.). The beauty of nature is

that it specializes in exceptions also. Anyway, normally we cannot

know.

 

The real question is reincarnation of what? Clearly, not of the

body, or the brain, or even the mind. So, the question is what is

reincarnated. If it is reincarnated, then I should be seeing

(knowing) it right now because it should be here. So the real

question becomes - what is here that will be reincarnated. The

question comes down to what is the soul? That is where all religions

begin. That of course is the holy grail. Whatever our understanding

of the soul - the belief of reincarnation will be tied to it. So its

a big big topic.

 

Personally, in my understanding the question of reincarnation is

best explained by the story of the 18th elephant (from veda). If you

ask a wrong question, and insist on an answer, then you will be

given a wrong answer. I understand what Gaudapada Karika says on

this matter.

 

Those are my 2 cents.

 

Regards

Meghna.

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To understand reincarnation it requires a little bit of intelligence.