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Harsha: I saw the following message from Barry Kauler a while back and

thought it made interesting reading. Many people on other lists might find

it thought provoking so I am forwarding it without any comments.

 

"Barry Kauler" <b.kauler

 

A very interesting and fundamental point is raised in the posting,

regarding reincarnation. Ramesh is a "disciple" of Sri

Nissargadatta, the latter being famous for his book "I am That".

I am extremely fond of that book, but later publications show

changes in his oulook. Forgive me, but he almost seems to

have become slightly senile in his old age. One of those changes

is that reincarnation simply does not exist.

Of course we have the Advaitin viewpoint that nothing really exists,

but Nissargatta did not even assign a dream reality to reincarnation.

I have studied his reasons for this with extreme attention, and

believe them to be fallacious.

Unfortunately, Ramesh is continuing with this.

 

Ramana Maharshi would have to be "the" authority on non-dualism,

and he stated, many times, that reincarnation is a fact, though he

always emphasised that it is as real as our bodies are.

Poonjaji, one of the greatest disciples of Ramana Maharshi, saw

all of his past lives flash before him, covering thousands of lives,

but he saw it all in a second. In his last life he was a bhakta, a

devottee of Krishna.

 

However, it's not just the testimony of so many realised

beings and of the Hindu scriptures, and of many cases of

ordinary people remembering past lives.

I have a book of Nissargatta's that are talks given when he was

very old, and I also have a book of Ramesh's.

Both make statements about reincarnation, but do

not answer the questions logically when challenged. They are

evasive. It is not the evasiveness of trying to express profound

concepts that cannot be expressed, rather it is simply evasiveness,

because they cannot properly justify their viewpoint.

 

Perhaps others will not have my scalpel-like intuition, to determine

faults in these people. After all, Nissargatta is a realised being,

right, to he must know all the answers? Wrong. I learnt this the

hard way. I'm a Jnani, my Kundalini is alive, and intuition is very

strong.

Perhaps this will start a lively thread of discussion!