Maharshi's Gospel - 33

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D. 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 .

 

D. How can that be ?

 

 

M - See how a tree whose branches have been cut grows again.

So long as the roots of the tree remain 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 that

is how jivas are reborn.