Death. Man's most mysterious, relentless, and
inevitable adversary. Does death mean the end of life, or does it merely open the door to another life, another dimension,
or another world? If man's consciousness survives the death experience, then what determines its transition to new realities?
In order to gain a clear understanding of these mysteries, man has traditionally turned to enlightened philosophers, accepting
their teachings as representative of a higher truth. But when man endeavors to understand something beyond the scope of
the material senses, beyond instruments of measurement and the faculty of mental speculation, then there is no alternative
but to approach a higher source of knowledge. No scientist has successfully explained through laboratory investigations
the mystery of consciousness or its destination after the destruction of the material body. Research in this field has produced
many divergent theories, but their limitations must be recognized. The systematic principles of reincarnation, on the
other hand, comprehensively explain the subtle laws governing our past, present, and future lives. If one is to understand
reincarnation at all, he must acknowledge the fundamental concept of consciousness as an energy distinct from and superior
to the matter composing the physical body. This principle is supported by examination of the unique thinking, feeling, and
willing capacities of the human being. Can DNA strands or other genetic components possibly induce the feelings of love and
respect one person has for another? What atom or molecule is responsible for the subtle artistic nuances in Shakespeare's
Hamlet or Bach's "Mass in B Minor"? Man and his infinite capabilities cannot be explained by mere atoms and molecules. Einstein,
the father of modern physics, admitted that consciousness could not be adequately described in terms of physical phenomena.
"I believe that the present fashion of applying the axioms of science to human life is not only entirely a mistake, but also
has something reprehensible in it," the great scientist once said. Indeed, scientists have failed to explain consciousness
by means of the physical laws that govern everything else within their purview. Frustrated by this failing, Nobel laureate
in physiology and medicine Albert Szent-Gyorgyi recently lamented, "In my search for the secret of life, I ended up with atoms
and electrons, which have no life at all. Somewhere along the line, life has run out through my fingers. So, in my old age,
I am now retracing my steps." Accepting the notion that consciousness arises from molecular interaction requires an enormous
leap of faith, much greater than that required for a metaphysical explanation. As Thomas Huxley, the well-known biologist,
said, "It seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit, consciousness which I cannot see to
be matter or force or any conceivable modification of either..." Further recognition of the unique properties of consciousness
was given by Nobel laureate in physics Niels Bohr, who remarked, "We can admittedly find nothing in physics or chemistry that
has even a remote bearing on consciousness. Yet all of us know there is such a thing as consciousness, simply because we have
it ourselves. Hence consciousness must be part of nature, or, more generally, of reality, which means that quite apart from
the laws of physics and chemistry, as laid down in quantum theory, we must also consider laws of quite a different kind."
Such laws might well include the laws of reincarnation, which govern the passage of consciousness from one physical body into
another. To begin understanding these laws, we may note that reincarnation is not an alien, antipodal event, but one that
occurs with regularity in our own bodies during this very lifetime. In The Human Brain, Professor John Pfeiffer notes, "Your
body does not contain a single one of the molecules that it contained seven years ago." Every seven years one's old body is
completely rejuvenated. The self, however, our real identity, remains unchanged. Our bodies grow from infancy, to youth, to
middle age, and then to old age, yet the person within the body, the "I," always remains the same. Reincarnationbased
on the principle of a conscious self independent of its physical bodyis part of a higher-order system governing the living
being's transmigration from one material form to another. Since reincarnation deals with our most essential selves, it is
a subject of the utmost relevance to everyone. Coming Back explains the fundamentals of reincarnation presented in the
timeless Vedic text Bhagavad-gita. The Gita, thousands of years older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, provides the most complete
explanation of reincarnation available anywhere. It has been studied for millennia by many of the world's greatest thinkers,
and since spiritual knowledge is eternally true and does not change with each new scientific theory, it is still relevant
today. Harvard biophysicist D. P. Dupey writes, "We may lead ourselves down a blind alley by adhering dogmatically to
the assumption that life can be explained entirely by what we know of the laws of nature. By remaining open to the ideas embodied
in the Vedic tradition of India, modern scientists can see their own disciplines from a new perspective and further the aim
of all scientific endeavor: the search for truth." In this age of global uncertainty, it is imperative that we understand
the real origin of our conscious selves, how we find ourselves in different bodies and conditions of life, and what our destinations
will be at the time of death. This essential information is comprehensively explained in Coming Back. Chapter One shows
how reincarnation has profoundly influenced many of the world's greatest philosophers, poets, and artists, from Socrates to
Salinger. Next, the process of reincarnation as expounded in Bhagavad-gita, the oldest and most respected sourcebook on the
subject of transmigration of the soul, is presented. Chapter Two, a lively dialogue between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada and noted religious psychologist Professor Karlfried Graf von Durckheim, clearly shows how the material body
and the antimaterial particle, the spirit soul, can never be the same. In Chapter Three, a famous heart surgeon urges systematic
research into the soul, and Srila Prabhupada cites the Vedic version, thousands of years older and strikingly more informative
than modern medical science. Three fascinating narratives from the Vedic text Srimad Bhagavatam constitute Chapter Four. These
accounts stand as classic examples of how the soul transmigrates through different types of bodies under the control of the
precise laws of nature and karma. In Chapter Five, excerpts from the writings of Srila Prabhupada clearly demonstrate
that the principles of reincarnation can be easily understood in terms of ordinary events and common observations that regularly
occur in our daily lives. The next chapter describes how reincarnation embodies a universal and infallible system of justice,
wherein the soul is never banished to eternal damnation but is constitutionally endowed with a permanent opportunity to escape
the perpetual cycle of birth and death. Common misconceptions and chic notions about reincarnation form the subject of
Chapter Seven, and the concluding chapter, "Graduate Samsara: End the Cycle of Birth and Death," presents the process through
which the soul can transcend reincarnation and enter realms in which it is finally freed from the prison of the material body.
Having once achieved this status, the soul never again returns to this endlessly mutable world of birth, disease, old age,
and death.More...Case Study On Rebirth Reincarnation(A True Story)
SAYINGS OF SRI SRI YOGANANDA ON REINCARNATION
There are two kinds of births & deaths:
the breath way & the astral way.Human birth is accompanied by the presence of breath , inhalation & exaltation of
the airborne cosmic currents.Earthly death is marked by the absence of bodily breath.The breath-marked births & deaths
are peculiar to the earthly plane of existence.The astral way of birth & death has a deeper meaning.In the physical world
the soul is encased in a fleshly body made of 16 gross elements.After death he soul is rid of its heavy overcoat of
flesh but remains encased in its two other subtle garments---the astral body of 19 subtle principles & the casual body
of 35 ideas or thought forces.(body signifies any encasement whether gross or subtle which surrounds the soul). When a devotee
by divine ecstasy completely identifies himself with omnipresent spirit,he goes out of the three bodies & attains omnipresence.But
when a man leaves the physical body in ignorance,he awakens in an astral world,encased in his astral body.In accordance with
karmic law,he lives & develops in the astral world for some time,working out some of his past tendencies.A the timing
of the cosmic law,man again experiences the death-disintegration of the astral body & is reborn once more in the physical
world. At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh & becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral
world.Thus physical death is astral birth.Later,he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness
of dark astral death & awakens in a new physical body.Thus astral death is physical birth.These recurrent cycles of physical
& astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.
A truth seeker realizes by introspection
& self analysis & by study under god realized guru that the universal laws which governs the phenomenal world ordain
that the karma pursued man must undergo this series of births & deaths.The wise devotee does not grieve over his dire
fate & difficult future experiences rather he concentrates his utmost powers to destroy those evil karmas by identifying
himself with the omniscient SPIRIT.Births & deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which
he thinks he is body & cannot exist without it.Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the
nightmares & delusive dreams of births & deaths & the fanciful miseries & limitations attending them.A man
through persistent wrong living may suffer from continual nightmares that he is being suffocated & murdered.Only
by right living may he disgorge his subconscious mind of those evil impulses which are the sole cause of his nightly halluniciations.A
man with an extreme fear of the cycle of births & deaths may dream every night that he is being born as a baby & then
that he dies after he becomes an adult.These dreams may continue indefinitely with us until by wisdom the man becomes free
from the harrowing fears that are motivating his dreams.The same truth may be applied to the soul,if a man through delusion
experiences births followed by deaths,he must inexorably continue to do so until wisdom, meditation, discrimination &
ecstatic communication with god he identifies his soul with spirit.A man awake in omnipresent spirit loses all delusive nightmares.
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