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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/
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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.