06 - The Ego ; From Birth to Rebirth by Paul Brunton

Author:Paul Brunton
Language: eng
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Published: 2010-10-03T19:21:17.903000+00:00

2 Rebirth And Reincarnation

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The wheel of life does not stop for long – soon it will turn again and pass from the point of death to the point of life.

2

The thought of the body, of being identified with it, guarantees that a dying person will come back here again.

3

Nature has taken a long time to prepare him for this moment – longer than he knows – and used many different forms to do so.

4

Man eagerly seeks a fleshly tenement through reincarnation or is drawn into it by his desires – describe it as you wish.

5

Tied to the great wheel of birth and rebirth as they are by desires and longings, there is in them still no wish for release.

6

The old people who walk with melancholy face, feeling condemned to die relatively soon, will do better to recognize the inexorable fatality which makes death always follow birth, but which then makes rebirth follow death.

7

The mental wavelength on which we tune in helps to determine the kind of life we have, the kind of environment we get.

8

Both the things we desire and those we dread bring us into incarnation again.

9

Better than being born to wealthy parents is being born to wise ones, for then the child will not only be taught spiritual values but will see them demonstrated before his eyes.

10

To be born and brought up in an atmosphere of high thinking and wide searching – this is the chance which reincarnation gives.

11

A child is born into a family not by mere chance but as the resultant of forces set agoing in the previous births both by the newly born and by its parents.

12

Parents may do what they wish to encourage the good and discourage the evil in the characters of their offspring, but in bringing them into the world they took a chance. For the children brought their own characters with them from previous incarnations.

13

When a child is born or a man dies, the new world of his experience cannot be said to be either a ready-made one or an entirely personal one. The truth lies in a combination of both. The mystery of existence lies in the wonderful way in which such a combination is brought about.

14

None of us is thrown into this world against his will. All of us are here because we want to be here.

15

We reincarnate in part through the pressure of accumulated karma and in part through the pressure of habitual tendencies.

16

Some are eager to descend into a body again, but others are reluctant and are half-dragged down.

17

All men come back to bodily life again if they leave a residue of karma. All karma that is not brought to an end by bringing the mind's bondage to the ego-thought to an end, makes reincarnation inescapable.

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