Reincarnation -Part 3

In the last post we looked into the detail aspect of life and death.Today let us see how Bhavadgita looks at reincarnation.
The most fundamental information about reincarnation is found in Bhagavad-gita. In Chapter 2, Krishna explains in a rational, simple and clearly understandable way how the soul travels from body to body. This fact is not a question of belief but is relatively easy to understand and to accept with logical conclusions.

The prerequisite for this understanding of reincarnation is that one understands the difference between the body and the soul.

"That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. " (Bhagavad Gita 2.17)

"For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain." (Bhagavad Gita 2.20)

"The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.(Bhagavad Gita 2.23)

Thus, the soul and the body are two different things. The body is temporary and the soul is eternal.

Although the nature of the soul is beyond the scope of measurable material interactions, one can realize its presence with the help of the following example:

"O son of Bharata, as the sun alone illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body, illuminate the entire body by consciousness." (Bhagavad Gita 13.34)
So the verses in the Gita helps us further into the theory of reincarnation.Gita often refers to the conscious mind and the illuminated soul.
Then came the New Age movement, and as a result we witness a wide acceptance of reincarnation in our society today. However, its modern version is substantially different from what Eastern religions affirmed. Far from being a torment out of which man has to escape by any price through abolishing personhood, New Age thinking sees reincarnation as an eternal progression of the soul toward higher levels of spiritual knowledge. Thus what reincarnates is not the impersonal atman, but an entity which is currently called the soul, an entity which preserves the attributes of personhood from one life to the next.
This new age movement is to satisfy the western theory about reincarnation.So the point is reincarnation theory stood the test of time and what we see today is that the reincarnation in its fullest form.
I thought i could bring the proof of reincarnation into this post but i think you have wait for another day to really see the proof of reincarnation in the olden days and the modern era and how you could find out about your previous birth.
happy reading everyone!!!