The cause of thirst for life and a thirst for rebirth is ignorance of the reality hidden by the ‘I’. the ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion.
The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The ‘I’ is the matter whereas the ‘Self’ is the Soul, the Spirit. The matter is nothing but an illusion created out of Spirit. The universe is nothing but matter hides the Spirit because the universe is created out of the Spirit.
Real rebirth is dying from the matter into the Spirit. This is the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus.
Whenever identification with the body and the world exists, a body and the world are always available, whether in the dream or waking or vision or astral, till the duality disappears by merging into the Source – the Spirit, or the Soul, Self.
The stone which is projected upwards remains in constant motion, till it returns to its source, the earth, and rests. Pain continues to give trouble, till the pre-pain state is regained.
The quest for self-knowledge is inherent in the very nature of life, which is Absolute Existence – truth. Although indestructible by nature, by false identification with its destructible instrument, the body, consciousness imbibes a false apprehension of its destructibility within the dualistic illusion; hence it tries to perpetuate that instrument, which results in believing the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality. But however long these experiences may last; they eventually come to an end and yield to the Soul the Spirit, which alone eternally exists.
The seeker has to give up identification with the ‘I’ which is the world in which you exist. The world in which you exist is a dualistic illusion. Remember, the world in which you exist cannot exist without the Soul, the Self, whereas the Soul, the Self can exist without the world in which you exist; in fact, it is always without it.
People think human being may take an animal birth in some other life. These ideas are based on accepting the present birth as a reality. When the present birth which happens within the world itself is an illusion then the future birth is bound to be an illusion. The seeker has to realize the fact that, the experience of birth, life and death are a reality within the dualistic illusion. part of the illusion, therefore, the birth rebirth and reincarnation which happens within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion. The Self is the Soul hidden by the dualistic illusion. The Soul is the cause of the dualistic illusion (universe) and it itself is uncaused.
How can you identify the Self as you when the Soul, the ‘Self’ is birthless and deathless because, the Soul is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.
