Guest guest Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Disciple: Does not death dissolve the individuality of a person, so that there can be no rebirth, just as the rivers discharged into the ocean lose their individualities? Maharshi: But when the waters evaporate and return as rain on the hills, they once more flow in the form of rivers and fall into the ocean; so also the individualities during sleep lose their separateness and yet return as individuals according to their samskaras or past tendencies. Even so it is in death; and the individuality of the person with samskaras is not lost. Disciple: How can that be? Maharshi: See how a tree whose branches have been cut grows again. So long as the roots of the tree remained unimpaired, the tree will continue to grow. Similarly, the samskaras, which have merely sunk into the Heart on death, but have not perished for that reason, occasion rebirth at the right time; and this is how jivas are reborn. (From Maharshi's Gospel, published by Sri Ramanasramam and available for download from http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/ ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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