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Question 47
How do we
deal with rebirth or reincarnation? How does it reconcile with
Adwaitha? What exactly is rebirth, if only God exists?
(19.01.2003)
How do we deal with rebirth? We
cannot deal with it because it is not in our hands. None of us
submitted an application to God before our birth to be born as a
human being. Really, had application forms been given to us before
our birth, we would probably have filled in volumes of columns at
least, to make sure we’d be born as a millionaire. (Laughter)
“Oh God, at least see that I’m full
of joy, fun and frolic forever. (Laughter) See that I won’t
die next time.” (Laughter)
These would have been our
expressions. So there is no question of dealing with rebirth
because it is not in our hands. But, how do we reconcile it with
Adwaitha? Adwaitha means, as you know, non-dualism -- only
One exists, not two. As Baba says:
Ekam Eva Advithiyam
Brahma.
Ekam Eva
means ‘only one, not two’. So, how do we reconcile this with
rebirth?
My friends, as long as I feel that I
am separate from God, I have to be born again and again. Once I
understand and experience that God and I are one, there’s no
rebirth. So birth and rebirth are due to separateness or due to
the feeling of a separate identity, due to one’s identification
with the body, mind and intellect. Because of this separation from
the Divine entity, one has to be born again and again. Once you
experience and deeply identify with Divinity, it cuts short the
chain of birth and death.
© Anil Kumar Kamaraju 2004 - Here
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