Question::
Why should everyone reincarnate? What is the necessity of ‘reincarnations’? Where & When does ‘reincarnations’ end?
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Why should one get realized? What is the necessity of ‘Realization’ (Self-realization & God realization)?
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Is physical body necessary for Self-realization & God-realization?
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How come a ‘God-realized being’ is said to be above birth and death, a true immortal?
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What is ‘True Immortality’ or ‘Deathlessness’?
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Why is ‘life in ignorance’ considered a continuous death?
Answer:
(Extracted from Meher Baba’s literature, which is a copyright of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust(©AMBPPCT), Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Bharat/India)
With the annulment of the sanskaras, the ‘individual’ is freed permanently from all sanskaric determination. As a consequence, for the first time the individual’s life can express itself without ‘latent’ or ‘patent’ inhibitions, for it functions in the limitless understanding of truth.
This true poise of realization which admits no further possibility of disturbance through resurrection of any limiting tendencies can only be attained while the individual has a physical body. It can never come through the speeding-up processes of one-sided sanskaric exhaustion that take place in the hell-state or heaven-state. This is the all-important reason why every individual has to come-back to the gross world again and again in physical incarnation, until ‘self-realization’ is attained.
The alternating links of the continuous chain of ‘individual existence’ consist of ‘incarnate’ and ‘discarnate’ lives, forged from periods of ‘birth to death’ and ‘death to birth’.
Only in God-realization can life be freed from the shackles of limited individuality.
Only in God-realization does the tenacious chain of recurrent incarnations reach final fulfilment and termination. It is a state of eternal existence free from birth or death. It is true immortality or deathlessness, by virtue of the fact that it is above the birth and death of the body.
‘True immortality’ is not the survival of the ‘limited individual’ in the period following the death of the physical body. It is true that the ego-mind persists unscathed through death, but the individual cannot and does not thereupon attain to final freedom from birth and death.
Survival should not be confused with deathlessness, which is true immortality. The chain of alternating incarnate and discarnate life is only a survival of consciousness-plus-ignorance, and ignorance makes ‘true life’ impossible.
Life in ignorance is the very negation of existence in truth. It is so basic a curtailment of true existence that, when judged by the standard of the true existence in eternity, it had best be termed a continuous death.
Only in realization is consciousness emancipated from the tyranny of this continuous death which nullifies the true life in eternity.
And only in liberation can consciousness arrive at that true immortality which lies beyond all curtailment and obscurity.
– Meher Baba
Source ::
Listen Humanity, Pg :: 110-111
© AMBPPCT, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India/Bharat
