CONCLUSIONES Y VALORACIÓN PERSONAL

Many belief systems around the world embrace reincarnation, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, and a variety of New Age religions.

Each religion professes different beliefs about the cause and purpose of reincarnation, but some facts remain consistent.

In most cases, reincarnation is a natural and very important part of the development of a soul; it is the process of struggling against some negative force, such as desire or karma, toward a higher state of being; and it applies to all human beings, if not all living creatures.

What dometempsychosis,thecycleof rebirth, and transmigrationof thesoulmean?

Wheredotheycomefrom?

Metempsychosis, also known as the transmigration of the soul, is a concept from ancient Greek philosophy. It refers to the journey of the soul from one incarnation (fleshly host) to the next.

The soul is released from the body by death and exists briefly in a pure spiritual state before returning to a new body. The cycle of rebirth refers to the continuous process of transmigration and rebirth that attends the history of every soul.

Plato is considered the “father” of these beliefs in Western thought;

however, they are prominent in many Eastern religious systems.

People have believed in reincarnation since ancient times. Since prehistoric times, there have been numerous techniques used to explore past lives. Every religion has an ‘inner teaching’, and within that inner teaching, reincarnation and its evolutionary implications have been accepted as the universal truth. There is sufficient evidence to show that the Hindus, Ancient Celts, the Egyptians, the Tibetans, and the Hebrew Cabalists etc. used past-life remembrance.

SriKrishnaandtheBhagawadGita:

Sri Krishna said in ‘The Bhagawad Gita’, “As a man, casting off worn-out garments, takes new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-worn-out bodies, enters into others that are new”. He has also said “The misdeeds of our

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past lives torment us in the form of illnesses or ailments”. From this we understand how all our ailments have their root cause in past-life actions. This is the fundamental principle on which the entire concept of Past-Life-Regression is based. ‘Past-Life-Regression’ is based on the universal law of cause and effect, which is also known as the Law of Karma.

A person’s past actions affect his or her present conditions. The effect could be on physical health, emotional condition, mental state or spiritual being. A few examples of root causes are::unfulfilled desires, thoughts, feelings,

emotions, vows, promises,decisions, evasions or

traumaticexperiences. The root causes are invariably in the past.

The famous encouragement of Arjuna by Krishna, given in the Bhagavad-Gita is as follows::

“ These bodies of the embodied One, who is eternal, indestructible and boundless, are known as finite. . . He who regardeth this as a slayer, and he who thinketh he is slain, both of them are ignorant. He slayeth not nor is he slain. He is not born, nor doth he die; nor having been, ceaseth he any more to be;

unborn, perpetual, eternal and ancient, he is not slain when the body is slaughtered. Who knoweth him indestructible, unborn, undiminishing, how can that man slay, O Partha, or cause to be slain ? As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are new. Weapons cleave him not, nor fire burneth him,nor waters wet him, nor wind drieth him away. Indivisible he, incombustiblehe, and indeed neither to be wetted nor dried away; perpetual, pervasive, stable, immovable, ancient, unmanifest, unthinkable, immutable, he

is called; therefore knowing him as such thou shouldst not grieve ”.

Patanjali Maharishi:

The ancient Indian sage Patanjali Maharishi, has done extensive work on Past-Life-Regression. In his yoga sutras Patanjali Maharishi called this process of past-life-regression as ‘Prati-Prasav’. It is the process of reabsorbing back to the cause. This means bringing effect back to the cause or the process of involution.

When a child is born it is Prasav. Prati-Prasav means you are born again in the memory; you go back to the very birth, the trauma when you were born, and you live it again. If there is something, some trouble, some problem, then we go back to the srcinal source from where it started. Because we can go on trying

to solve the problem, but unless we go to the roots it cannot be solved.

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Effects cannot be solved unless they are forced back to the cause. For example, if there is an unwanted weed and we go on cutting the branches and the leaves in an attempt to remove the weed, we find that more andmore branches and leaves take the place of the ones we cut off. To removethe weed

once and for all, we have to actually remove the weed fromthe roots.

Theosophy : Theosophy :

Theosophy has an elaborate doctrine, which has been greatly modified since its inception. It has a wide spectrum of esoteric teaching which involves involution of the monad (soul) and the evolution of the physical vehicle (body) simultaneously in one individual. It uses a language quite different from other esoteric disciplines. Theosophical viewpoints after much modification are now left vague and contradictory. However, these inconsistencies do not alter the theme of moralist karma, intermission and reincarnation. The three tenets of Theosophical thought on karma and reincarnation are (a) these are natural laws that cannot be redeemed;

(b) they are for reward and punishment; (c) they are also for guidance, evolution and healing. Memories of past life recalls are extraordinary according to them, because in their view the physical brain and astral brain decompose after death, and therefore these memories are not available except in the higher causal body. So only highly developed people can access their past.

Hinduism:

The first Hindu view is that all souls arose from the Source or Godhead. After many incarnations, they forget that they are divine and that they srcinated from the Source. But after many incarnations, they learn that they have to realise who they really are (i.e. self-realisation), and from thence onwards the journey is towards returning to the Source.

The second view is that we started as being minerals, going through vegetables and animals and finally to humans. It is only the human that can attain self-awareness and with it freedom of choice and responsibility.

From then onwards, the law of karma comes into play. After many incarnations (840,000 of them) and after liberation (moksha,) the human soul does not need to come back to earth or other planet for growth. It will now carry on as an angel in the spirit world. These earthly incarnations and intermissions which, are totally guided by karma is called Samsara.

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