A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
May 8, 2023

Exploring Rebirth of the Soul into New Bodies and New Lives

Exploring Rebirth of the Soul into New Bodies and New Lives
Exploring Rebirth of the Soul into New Bodies and New Lives
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Exploring Rebirth of the Soul into New Bodies and New Lives
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/06/exploring-rebirth-of-the-soul-into-new-bodies-and-new-lives/

0:02 Ella segment of humanity, does not accept the idea of rebirth choosing, instead to either suggest that this one lifetime is the entire frame and limit of an individual's existence or else that after death, they will be resurrected to go before a seat of judgment and either be assigned to heaven or hell for all eternity. We then come to those that accept rebirth in some form, as providing meaning and significance to life and the evolutionary development, taking place in the Universal manifestation.

0:43 Traditional Buddhist thought does not accept the idea of a unique Soul moving from birth to birth. Although, Tibetan Buddhism comes closest to this concept with its travel of the individual through an intermediate Zone. They call the Bardot, and eventually taking a new birth. And in the concept of Reincarnation of great Lama, such as the various incarnations of The Dalai Lama, In rebirth and Karma as well as in specific chapters on the subject in the Life. Divine SRI aurobindo makes the case as to why the development of the universal creation and the evolution of Consciousness requires some entity, which he calls the psychic being or which may be called.

1:33 Generally, the soul is a necessary element in the Machinery of the universe and this progression of developing Consciousness. The popular conception takes the very idea of rebirth and create several imaginative. Albeit fanciful ideas about it. One conception is the idea that someone can be reborn as a dog or a cat or a fish. If they act in some way that is considered less than fully human in their lifetime, another conception more directly on point, is that what we experience as our being our external personality in this lifetime is what we carry through from One Life to the next.

2:24 And while we may forget the specifics, we carry through with the intellectual emotional vital and physical development of the past lifetimes and indeed reassemble in a new body, the framework of relationships, Etc, that pertained in this life, a more carefully. Thought-out view, however, makes it clear that Justice, the physical body dissolves, the vital body, the Emotional body and eventually the mental body also dissolve leaving, only the central essential being the psychic being or soul with the essence of the experiences.

3:08 It has gathered to take the new birth and experience an entirely new and different life. Founded on a basis of the past experience of the soul and focused on the next phase of that Souls. Growth and development. Every means, of course, remotely possible for some specific mental vital or physical capacity to be reintegrated in the new Lifetime. And there are even rare cases, whereby a reincarnated Soul. Actually brings forward memories and talents acquired, in a previous lifetime.

3:49 Although, it must be cautioned that this is not the normal State of Affairs. But one that is reserved for highly conscious Souls who are in fact not attached to an individual personality or body but who have already transcended and move their focus of Consciousness outside that limited framework. A disciple asks, mother sent 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. Do we have to go through all the experiences? Once again, the mother replies quote, that depends on people.

4:36 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, then normally the psychic goes into a kind of rest for a Emulation where the result of the progress accomplished during its active? Existence is worked out.

5:22 And when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed the progress, it is prepared and it's 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 and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 8, the psychic NG and inner growth pages 156 to 157. NG and inner growth pages 156 to 157.