Don’t you want to be born again?

To many followers of Western religions reincarnation is a difficult concept to accept.

One is so used to being told that this life is all that we have that the offer of another life, in truth, many more lives, can at the same time be very exciting and very dangerous. It is an adventure.

The Western religions and their followers believe we all live only once. What happens after death is a mystery. Because of this, the focus of the present life, sensory pleasures and material benefits is intense. It is do or die, before you die.

Western culture therefore has rightly focused on living life to its maximum in this one and only life time. It has developed much better than its Eastern counterpart, in everything related to the external world of sensory enjoyment, including science.

With Eastern religions it is a lot more relaxed. You have many lives to live. If you have not achieved in this life you still have a chance in the next and the one after. It is also an adventure. Like some one said, life is really like a candy box! You really do not know what you are going to get in your next life!

Any amount of empirical evidence, which now shows that reincarnation is a reality, is difficult to accept because of our conditioning. It is also as a result of the belief that life is all about body. The Western mind has only a vague concept of the spirit and soul, of which the Bible says a lot. The belief is that what is intangible and what cannot be held in one’s arms does not exist. This is the same conditioning that led to the belief for many centuries that the Sun revolved around the Earth.

Why is it more threatening to accept that the spirit returns to another body rather than believe that it burns in hell or frolics in an unseen heaven? The simple reason is that it is easier for religions and society to control us through greed and fear through the concepts of hell and heaven; that’s why.

Once you realize that you will return to another body on earth instead of being consigned to a heaven or hell forever, reduces the pressure on you to conform. You have the time to look within you and find the truth for yourself. You decide how you must live, not others.