[Advaita-l] Rebirth

[Manoharan Kanniappan]

Pranams Vidyasankarji,

Your answer is very very crisp and to the point. I enjoyed very much
learning this point so clearly.

Thanks a lot.

with love,
Manoharan

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <
svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> > The physical body which is made of the five elements of nature goes back
> once burried or cremated
> > The Atman which is teh Bathman itself is common in all living beings that
> is never born or never dies
> > Than we are left with only the mind....  here chitta is storage of all
> thoughts and experiences, buddhi is the intelligence and ahankara is an
> illusion. Out of these which, I am not able to understand,  takes rebirth!!!
> These three can be at the most can be contenets, but what is the container
> that carries?
> >
>
>
> First, a question in response to your question:
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> Is the mind material or not?
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>
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> If your answer is no, the mind is not made of matter, then you are outside
>
> the Indian philosophical traditions and you have to find an answer outside
>
> of vedAnta. Your answer might well be that there is no rebirth at all and
>
> that this one life is all there is.
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>
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> If your answer is yes, the mind is made of matter, but we can't see it,
>
> then the answer to the reborn entity is obvious. It is the subtle stuff
> that
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> belongs to the person, which is reborn eventually. The standard vedAnta
>
> answer adds all the other elements of the sUkshma SarIra to the entity
>
> that gets reborn - manas, buddhi, the prANas and the subtle forms of the
>
> senses. The consciousness of the Atman is reflected in these, but the
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> physical death of the body does not mean that the mind loses its ability
>
> to reflect this consciousness. Therefore, it continues with a superimposed
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> individuality through multiple physical bodies.
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>
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> Once the mind realizes that its existence is itself an illusion, it has
> nothing
>
> more to do but vanish, so there is no more rebirth. That is why the
> upanishat
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> says about the jnAnI - na tasya prANA utkrAmanti and atraiva samavanIyante
> -
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> his vital functions do not leave the physical body upon its death, instead
>
> they are absorbed in the physical body itself.
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> Regards,
>
> Vidyasankar
>
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