Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 Question from Mary: Could you help in clarifying the concept of reincarnation. Swamiji's response : The subject is a little difficult to resolve via email, but essentially we can suggest that our eyes and other sensses have never seen anything perfectly equal. Things approach equality, approximate equality, but we know that they are not perfectly equal. Diversity is the rule of creation. Now the question is, How did we know that that they are not perfectly equal? In oder to make such a judgement, we must have had some experience of perfect equality in order to say that this is not it. Since we have had our senses we have only perceived relative equality. We have had the senses since birth. Therefore, our experience of perfectly equality must have taken place sometime before we had the senses, i.e., sometime before taking manifestation in the body - before birth. Thus we must have existed before birth. And this is what is meant by reincarnation. We were without a body, and then we took birth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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