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Exploring Rebirth of the Soul into New Bodies and New Lives · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Ella segment of humanity, does not accept the idea of rebirth
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  choosing, instead to either suggest that this one lifetime
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  is the entire frame and limit of an individual's existence or
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  else that after death, they will be resurrected to go before a
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  seat of judgment and either be assigned to heaven or hell for
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  all eternity. We then come to those that
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  accept rebirth in some form, as providing meaning and
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  significance to life and the evolutionary development, taking
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  place in the Universal manifestation.
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  Traditional Buddhist thought does not accept the idea of a
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  unique Soul moving from birth to birth.
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  Although, Tibetan Buddhism comes closest to this concept with its
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  travel of the individual through an intermediate Zone.
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  They call the Bardot, and eventually taking a new birth.
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  And in the concept of Reincarnation of great Lama,
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  such as the various incarnations of The Dalai Lama, In rebirth
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  and Karma as well as in specific chapters on the subject in the
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  Life. Divine SRI aurobindo makes the
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  case as to why the development of the universal creation and
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  the evolution of Consciousness requires some entity, which he
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  calls the psychic being or which may be called.
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  Generally, the soul is a necessary element in the
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  Machinery of the universe and this progression of developing
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  Consciousness. The popular conception takes the
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  very idea of rebirth and create several imaginative.
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  Albeit fanciful ideas about it. One conception is the idea that
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  someone can be reborn as a dog or a cat or a fish.
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  If they act in some way that is considered less than fully human
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  in their lifetime, another conception more directly on
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  point, is that what we experience as our being our
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  external personality in this lifetime is what we carry
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  through from One Life to the next.
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  And while we may forget the specifics, we carry through with
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  the intellectual emotional vital and physical development of the
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  past lifetimes and indeed reassemble in a new body, the
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  framework of relationships, Etc, that pertained in this life, a
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  more carefully. Thought-out view, however, makes
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  it clear that Justice, the physical body dissolves, the
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  vital body, the Emotional body and eventually the mental body
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  also dissolve leaving, only the central essential being the
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  psychic being or soul with the essence of the experiences.
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  It has gathered to take the new birth and experience an entirely
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  new and different life. Founded on a basis of the past
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  experience of the soul and focused on the next phase of
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  that Souls. Growth and development.
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  Every means, of course, remotely possible for some specific
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  mental vital or physical capacity to be reintegrated in
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  the new Lifetime. And there are even rare cases,
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  whereby a reincarnated Soul. Actually brings forward memories
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  and talents acquired, in a previous lifetime.
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  Although, it must be cautioned that this is not the normal
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  State of Affairs. But one that is reserved for
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  highly conscious Souls who are in fact not attached to an
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  individual personality or body but who have already transcended
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  and move their focus of Consciousness outside that
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  limited framework. A disciple asks, mother sent in
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  each new life. The mind and vital as well as
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  the body are new. How can the experiences of past
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  lives? Be useful for them.
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  Do we have to go through all the experiences?
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  Once again, the mother replies quote, that depends on people.
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  It is not the mind and vital, which develop and progress from
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  life to life, except in all together, exceptional cases, And
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  at a very Advanced stage of evolution, it is the psychic.
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  So this is what happens. The psychic has alternate
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  periods of activity and rest. It has a life of progress
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  resulting from experiences of the physical life of active
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  life, in a physical body, with all the experiences of the body,
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  the vital, and the mind, then normally the psychic goes into a
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  kind of rest for a Emulation where the result of the progress
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  accomplished during its active? Existence is worked out.
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  And when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed
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  the progress, it is prepared and it's active life on Earth.
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  It comes down again, in a new body bringing with it, the
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  result of all its progress and at an advanced stage, it even
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  chooses the environment and the kind of body. and the kind of
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  life in which it will live to complete, its experience
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  concerning one point or another in some very advanced cases the
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  psychic can before leaving the body, decide what kind of life
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  it will have in its next Incarnation and quote reference
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  SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development, chapter 8, the psychic NG and inner growth
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  pages 156 to 157. NG and inner growth pages 156 to
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  157.