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Gautama's own Kharma, for example, ceased to exist upon his entering Nirvana; there was no re-birth; but his influence lives forever, and has extended to millions of his fellow-men. The injustice involved in the doctrine of Kharma is startling.
All the worlds, O Arjuna, from the abode of Brahman downwards have to go through a round of births; on attaining to me, however, O son of Kunti, there is no re-birth. It is said to be unmanifest and indestructible. They call it the highest goal, attaining which no one hath to come back. That is my Supreme seat.
That tender greening of the black bough and the red field, that coming again of the new-old flowers, that re-birth of love in all the family of birds, with cooings, and caressings, and building of nests in wood and brake, that strange glory of sunshine in the air, that stirring of life in the green mould, making even churchyards beautiful, seems like the creation of a new world.
The principal point that we desire to impress upon your minds is the fact that the "heaven-world" is not a place or state of permanent rest and abode for the disembodied soul, but is merely a place or temporary sojourn between incarnations, and thus serves as a place of rest wherein the soul may gather together its forces, energies, desires and attractions preparatory to re-birth.
Can you doubt, after reading the above quotation that Metempsychosis, Re-incarnation or Re-birth and Karma was held and taught as a true doctrine by the Fathers of the Early Christian Church? Can you not see that imbedded in the very bosom of the Early Church were the twin-doctrine of Re-incarnation and Karma.
And you, student, who feel within you that craving for conscious re-birth and future spiritual evolution, and the distaste for, and horror of, a further blind, unconscious re-plunge into the earth-life know you, that this longing on your part is but an indication of what lies before you. It is the strange, subtle, awakening of the nature within you, which betokens the higher state.
Recent writers hold that this shows that he accepted the doctrine of Re-birth himself, and also as showing that it must have been familiar to the Jewish soldiery. There seems to be no doubt regarding the familiarity of the Jewish people of that time with the general teachings regarding Metempsychosis.
Gay memories of my far-off childhood arose in me, particularly those of a Christmas party where I had met a little girl dressed like an elf, a little girl with blue eyes whom I had loved dearly for quite a fortnight, to be beaten down, stamped out, swallowed by that vision of the imminent shadow which awaits all mankind, the black womb of a re-birth, if re-birth there be. What could I do?
Why, then, if it brought all these arts and inventions and discoveries, do we not call it the birth, instead of the re-birth?
When we advance far enough we need not be re-born again ." "Yes as a theory I follow that ." She went on "Everything is cause and effect We draw the result of every action we commit, good or bad and sometimes it is not until the next re-birth we pay for the bad ones, or receive the result of the good ones ." "Is that why then that I am a cripple and life seems a beastly affair ?"
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