Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4, Issue - 2, 1 August 2019 | Page 19

dissolving into nothingness. Rather, the soul completes its adventure as a unique individual, like a sparkling star in the night sky, a completely realised Self. I would hope you understand that the goal of soul evolution is not to escape from the wretched physical plane, this “vale of tears”, as many would teach. The end of reincarnation is not some sort of reward for good Karma. Human existence is not a prison, or a wheel of torment and torture from which only the most worthy gain liberation. We incarnate because we want to and because we choose to. We know that, unless we’ve had the good fortune to have explored our soul’s prior existences and its time between lives with such avenues as Past Life Regression, we will probably spend each lifetime with no conscious memory of who we are. We will not remember our eternal Home and we will thus unfortunately suffer the illusion of separation and isolation. Indeed, this should inspire us to become more conscious and aware. Completion and true consciousness occurs when it matters not whether you are incarnate or discarnate. You gain the capacity to see through the illusions and you always feel “at Home”. Ramana Maharshi, often acknowledged as one of the most outstanding Hindu gurus of modern times, is widely regarded as an excellent example of someone in their last lifetime reaching the end of the cycle of reincarnation. Toward the end of his life, some of his students begged him not to die, not to leave them. His answer was: “But where could I possibly go?” He knew that both he and everybody else are already Home, and always will be, having never really left it. But Wait! There’s More!!