Is reincarnation real and How population growth be reconciled with it?
Is reincarnation real – Reincarnation is real undoubtedly, also, population growth can be reconciled with reincarnation theory.
To know the answer you must know the exact answers to the following questions:
- What is the meaning of reincarnation?
- Who is reincarnated again and again?
- What is the meaning of Soul?
- What is the meaning of the supreme soul?
- What is liberation or Mokha?
- What happened after death?
- Life after death
- What is the cycle of reincarnation?
- What is reincarnation or rebirth?
- How is reincarnation work?
- How do I know if I was reincarnated?
What is the meaning of Soul and Supreme soul?
The soul and the Supreme soul are not two separate elements.
Both are synonyms of Ishwar, God, Paramatma, and Supreme energy present everywhere.
Supreme energy or God is absolute consciousness. The soul is the name given to the same consciousness when one refers to an individual living being however soul is exactly the same as the supreme soul.
There is no division or discrimination between the soul and the supreme soul.
Therefore there is no question of reincarnation of the soul at all. The soul or supreme soul is always present, all-powerful, and omniscient.
Now the question is, who incarnate, again and again, one life after another life infinitely.
To know the answer first you should know the answer – what is the meaning of being a human?
What is the meaning of being a human?
A human being is a composition of two bodies:
- Physical body
- Subtle body
Physical Body and Subtle Body
The physical body is made up of five elements water, fire, air, sky, and earth.
The subtle body comprises of energy body which is a flux of energies.
This flux of energy consists of various kinds of energies:
- Fruits of past life actions or Karma
- Curses and boons
- Desires or wishes to do and not to do something
- Feelings of revenge, thoughts, and ambitions
- Past life debts related to money and love,
- And much more similar things
Collectively you can call it “Karmashya” or subtle body. This subtle body makes your ego or “I”, So, we call it “I Energy”.
What is life after death? Is reincarnation real?
At the time of death, only a physical body dies. The energy body leaves the physical body and starts its journey according to energies that reside in the energy body.
Before physical death, if a person wants to take revenge with someone, then after the death his or her energy body remains involves in taking revenge.
A true story of a person, who takes revenge after his death, Read….
If a person is very curious to find ISHWAR before the physical death, then after the physical death also the person reaches the higher planes (Lokas) to continue his journey or may come again on the earth to continue his journey.
It all depends on his collective energy stored in the energy body.
To know it detail read what higher planes above the earth are.
Sometimes due to very bad Karma, accidents or curses a person has to live in lower planes also called Hell. As seen in the case of spirits living in the Bhangarh Fort.
Read about mysterious spirits of Bhangarh Fort….
Everything occurs in the level of consciousness whether you enjoy heaven, hell, or physical plane.
You are on the physical plane in the physical body just because of your present level of consciousness.
The mystery of Physical Body
The physical body is the most important body among all the bodies. You can reach any height while living in the physical body.
You can achieve the highest level of consciousness through the physical body.
A human being is equipped with all the tools needed to reach the highest level of absolute consciousness as seen in the life of Yogies and saints such as Ram Krishna Paramhansa, Sai Baba, Jesus, and Lord Buddha, etc.
Now the question is what the relationship of the soul with human beings or living beings?
The soul or supreme soul is absolute consciousness. It makes your energy body-conscious and also your physical body-conscious.
The world is conscious because it is a direct manifestation of God. We call it universe but it is God. We call nature but this nature is God itself.
Now it is clear that there is no birth or death of the soul. It is your energy body who takes birth, again and again, one life after another life.
When your energy body gets a physical body it is called birth. When you leave the physical body it is called death.
What happened between the time period of life and death is called spirit life or ghost life.
Read a true story – Real Ghost Soldier on Duty in Indian Army Harbhajan Singh
Now the question is why the population is growing?
So, the main cause of population growth is the deep attachment of a person with his belongings and relations.
No one wants to die. Everyone wants to enjoy delicious food items, wants to attract their beloved, and wants to love their children, wish to earn more and more in a lifetime, wants to enjoy with friends and so on similar lust and pleasures.
This enjoyment is only possible through the physical body on the physical plane. No one wants to leave an attachment from the physical world.
Hence, come again and again in the world in the form of a human being. This is the only cause of population growth in the world.
As you can plant so many plants from the seeds of a fruit similarly so many children born from the seeds present in a man.
There is no limit to this. And every person who comes on the earth becomes attached deeply with the pleasures of the body.
What is Liberation or Moksha?
If a person leaves all kinds of attachments while living in the body then there is no more birth of the person.
Leaving all the desires while staying in the physical body is called liberation or Moksha from the world.
The ratio of such people is very less on earth. Hence, the population is increasing day by day.
The energy body is totally a temporary body. It is not a permanent element.
With the grace of God if somehow a person is attached with the supreme soul then supreme soul sends a physical divine guru for the person to awaken the person, to give him or her self-realization and only then this liberation is possible.
Self Realization Process
During self-realization, a person realizes the soul (supreme soul) present inside him or her and in the end, receives the liberation.
During the self-realization, the energy body dissolves automatically and the person receives the Moksha.
The person understands clearly that it is the supreme soul who resides in him. After self-realization, the person is unable to find his or her “I” or “Ahankara”.
This energy body has temporary energy. With the grace of God, it dissolves automatically. No energy body no rebirth.
During the process of life cycle subtle energy transforms from one species to another species in accordance with the actions or the law of karma.
What is the cycle of reincarnation?
After completing the whole journey of one life a living being (a flux of temporary energy) leaves the physical body, goes into the subtle realm, and lives in the form of spirit (temporary energy without a physical body) until calm his or her energy.
How much time the energy will take to become calm, depends on your present life and the energy collected in the present life.
The human being who pass their life in good Karma, calm easily after death and get a new body soon.
But a human being who passes life with anger, revenge, jealousy, etc take more time to become calm after death.
This time can be very short means few days to very big means in so many years.
After becoming clam the energy searches the father first and then mother and ultimately takes a new body.
The cycle is infinite no end except the liberation.
Read How a soul enters into a womb
What is reincarnation or rebirth?
Reincarnation means taking birth again and again in this physical realm.
A person takes birth, releases energy collected in the previous years, collects more energy, and dies, and again takes a new life.
How is reincarnation work?
Reincarnation works according to the law of Karma. As you sow so shall you reap.
Read what is the law of karma and how karma works?
How do I know if I was reincarnated?
Your hidden desires, thought process, craving to do something, craving to worship, recurrent dreams, expertise in a certain skill without learning the skill, inbuilt talents, diseases, traumas in life, spiritual powers if you have, soul mates, life partner all are with you just because of your so many past-life realizations.
Why Is There Suffering in the World?
Are animals reincarnated?
Yes, animals also reincarnated the same as human beings.
According to the law of karma, the temporary energy incarnated in the form of animals and birds also.
Can you be reincarnated as a plant?
Yes, anyone can be reincarnated as a plant too.
It all your Karma which decides in which form you will come again in the physical realm.
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