“….The original state of this empty world , which is bewildering and crowded with many names and forms, is bliss, which is one,….;does the world exists by itself? Was it ever seen without the aid of the mind? In sleep there is neither mind nor the world.When awake there is the mind and there is the world…..The world neither exists by itself , no is it conscious of its existence. How can you say that such a world is real?.... Knowledge of the world is knowledge of the knower of the world….Both go away in sleep.question: How did the knower come? Answer: On account of the error of perception. In fact the knower and his misperceptions appear simultaneously, and when the knowledge of the Self is obtained, they disappear simultaneously….The real Self is continuous and unaffected. The reincarnating ego belongs to the lower plane, namely, thought. It is transcended by self-realisation….The Self is all and all is bliss…. Real birth is dying from the ego into the spirit. This is the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. Whenever identification with the body exists, a body is always available, whether this or any other one, till the body-sense disappears by merging into the source-the spirit, or Self…. it must be distinctly understood that it is no soul which comes and goes, but only the thinking mind of the individual, which makes it appear to do so. On whatever plane the mind happens to act, it creates a body or fitself; in the physical world a physical body and in the dream world a dream body which becomes wet with dream rain and sick with dream disease. After the death of the physical body, the mind remains wordless and therefore bodiless. But soon it becomes active again in a new world and a new body-the astral-till it assumes another body in what is called a “rebirth’. But the….Self-realised man, whose mind has already chased to act, remains unaffected by death….The chain of illusions has snapped for ever for him….It is the mind which creates and maintains the illusion of reality in this process , till it is destroyed by Self-realisation…. Question: Does not death dissolve the individuality of a person, so that there can beno rebirth, just as the rivers discharged into the ocean lose their individualities? Answer: But when the waters evaporate and return as rain on the hills, they once more flow in the form of rivers and fall into the ocean. So also the individualities during sleep lose their separateness and yet return as individuals according to their samskaras or past tendencies. It is the same after death-the individuality of the person with samskaras is not lost…. question: How long is the interval between one’s death and reincarnation? Answer: It may be long or short. But a Self-realised one (“know the truth and the truth shall set you free” from the bible ask yourself ‘who am I?’ –my comment)does not undergo any such changes; he merges into the universal being. Some say that those who after death pass into the path of light are not reborn, whereas those who after death take the path of darkness are reborn after they have enjoyed the fruits of karma in their subtitle bodies. Some say if that if one’s merits and demerits are equal, they are directly reborn here…” –from The teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi
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