What is rebirth? What takes rebirth? || Acharya Prashant (2017)

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What is rebirth? What takes rebirth? || Acharya Prashant (2017)

Questioner (Q): What is re-birth? What is the transmigration of soul? What travels after death? What carries forward?

Acharya Prashant (AP): A few things must be clearly understood. ‘You’ do not carry anything.

You as a ‘person’, are not a very important carrier. That which carries is the total stream of mankind’s consciousness.

(Referring to the people sitting in the audience) Her mind, her mind, his mind, your mind, his mind, her mind, the mind of the kid, the mind of the old man – we all are carrying remnants, carryforwards from our collective past. That is what is carried forward.

See, it is like this.

There are waves in the ocean. One particular wave is carrying a little sugar, a lump of sugar. Now the wave rises and falls. What happens to the lump of sugar? It gets distributed throughout the ocean. Now it belongs to everyone. That is how things are carried forward.

What you do in your lifetime, has gone to many, many, many. Through every single action of yours, you are impacting the entire mankind. In other ways, you are responsible for forming the mind of entire mankind. In turn, your own mind is being formed by the entire mankind, because you are an active recipient as well.

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BADRINARAYAN KV

9mon ago

If what I do transforms you, you have taken rebirth. There is no transfiguration. Upanishad dont have it. That's the summary of this article. . Thanks Acharya ji.

Preeti

1y ago

is it right to say? that #rebirth is an intellectual phenomenon not a physical one like birth and death. # rebirth is a continuous process that only happen between birth and death. #rebirth is the transformation of thought , the evolution of new values and tendencies.

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