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Death
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Reincarnation
Questioner: Does the unliberated soul return after death?
Dadashri: Those who do not believe in reincarnation believe
that it does not return. Therefore according to the foreigners it
does not, according to the Moslems it does not, but for the rest of
Indians, the Hindus, it does return. This is the result of the grace
of your God that you believe in reincarnation. The moment you
die, the soul immediately enters another womb.
Now in fact, all souls do return. The belief of the non-
Hindus’ belief is that once dead they do not return, but they do
return. They do not understand this because they do not understand
the process of reincarnation. You understand reincarnation.
When the body dies, it becomes lifeless and from that one
can easily deduce that there was life within, which has now
departed and gone elsewhere. Those who do not believe in
reincarnation believe that the very life force (jiva) within was living
and is now dead. We do not accept this. We are spiritually
developed. It is because of this spiritual development that we
believe in reincarnation. It is because of this that we understand
the science of the Vitarag (the Omniscient) Lords. This science
states that it is because of reincarnation that we all come together.
Such is our belief and it is on the strength of this belief that we
believe in the Soul. How can reincarnation be supported without
the belief in the Soul?
Who is it that reincarnates? It is because there is the Soul
that there is reincarnation. We witness the death of the body,
which is burnt. So only the soul can come and go in different
forms.
When you understand the nature of the Soul, all puzzles are