Ramana Maharshi explains how jivas are reborn

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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?

 

M: 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.

 

Source: Maharshi’s Gospel BOOKS 1 & II

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram