Conscious Rebirth by a Fully Developed Psychic Being, Part 1

0:00 The Tibetan Book of the Dead describes the period from the time of death to the adoption of a new body. In a new birth the individual departs the physical body, which begins to decompose. Next the vital sheath dissolves and following that the mental formations. All these external instruments are left behind in the general case. The Buddhist teaching does not identify a soul or psychic being. Rather, it references the clear light of pure awareness and the stream of awareness that carries out the cause and effect through dependent origination based on the energy and trajectory of past actions. However it is described, it is clear that some form of consistent awareness traverses the state following the death of an individual being in the physical world and encounters experiences and opportunities whereby the past stream of actions bring about the conditions for assuming a new birth in a new body, life, mind complex. Srioro Bindu and the Mother recognized the existence of a psychic being, a soul entity which carries the pure awareness beyond birth and death and rebirth. The psychic being accumulates experiences in each lifetime, and through that it grows and

1:32 matures in both its conscious awareness and its power to effectuate its focus on the body, life force, and mind that it assumes in each successive birth. The esoteric question arises when we look at the stream of consciousness that persists from life to life and then attribute to it awareness and agency. We see that in the case of the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and other similar cases that it is possible for the consciousness present in the pure awareness or the psychic being to direct and specify future incarnation conditions. How far can this ability go for a fully awake and fully formed psychic being?

2:19 The mother clarifies that such a developed soul need not take random births for further experience, but can choose to return to carry out a consistent process and thereby carry with it not just the essence of its experiences but actual mental, vital, or physical capacities as well. While such an instance may be extremely rare, it is useful to understand this possibility, as it may help to explain phenomena we find in certain children with special knowledge or capacities that were clearly not developed and new in their short lifetimes. A disciple asks mother, since in each new life the mind and vital as well as the body are new, how can the experiences of past lives be useful for them?

3:14 Do we have to go through all the experiences once again? The mother responds quote That depends on people. It is not the mind and vital which develop and progress from life to life, except in all together exceptional cases and at a very advanced stage of evolution. It is the psychic. So this is what happens. The psychic has alternate periods of activity and rest. It has a life of progress resulting from experiences of the physical life, of active life in a physical body, with all the experiences of the body, the vital and the mind.

3:59 Then normally the psychic goes into a kind of rest for assimilation, where the result of the progress accomplished during its active existence is worked out. And when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed the progress it had prepared in its active life on Earth, it comes down again in a new body, bringing with it the result of all its progress. And at an advanced stage it even chooses the environment and the kind of body and the kind of life in which it will live to complete its experience concerning one point or another. In some very advanced cases, the psychic can, before leaving the body, decide what kind of life it will have in its next incarnation.

4:48 When it has become an almost completely formed and already very conscious being, it presides over the formation of the new body, and usually through an inner influence, it chooses the elements and the substance which will form its body in such a way that the body is adapted to the needs of its new experience. But this is at a rather advanced stage. And later, when it is fully formed and returns to earth with the idea of service, of collective help and participation in the Divine work, then it is able to bring to the body in formation certain elements of the mind and vital from previous lives, which having been organized and impregnated with psychic forces in previous lives, could be preserved and consequently can participate in the general progress.

5:46 But this is at a very, very advanced stage. End Quote. Reference Srioro Vindo and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, Mission and evolution. Section 3. Growth and Development of the Psychic, pages 84 to 85.