Some more arguments supporting rebirths.........

Research Project

(A SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON THE MECHANISM
FOR TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS)


INTRODUCTION> Soul and its transmigration is one of the oldest human concepts, preceding science and its discovery of evolution by many millennia. Yet it remains as big a mystery as ever as it happens to be the least empirical subject.

We have two arguments in favor of the existence of the soul. The first one is an authentic case of rebirth; and the second one is the philosophical induction from nature. Since nature is impartial to lives in all other aspects, why should it discriminate in the quality and duration of life? There isn’t any ground if there is only one life for each soul.

It, therefore, stands to enlightened reason that though it appears to discriminate in one life (some have, many don’t have) it is, in reality, very impartial in the long journey of souls, spread over innumerable lives. And to top it all the memory about previous lives, is, as a rule, withheld from the conscious of the present life. The soul starts each life afresh.

Once soul and its transmigration are accepted, many questions crop up. Why should a soul want to be born again into this bad and mad world? Is it un-fulfilled desires or reward/punishment or both? How far is the soul free to select parents, place and gender for the next birth?



NEED FOR RESEARCH> Two slow and invisible processes are entwined around life in any form. But, no human system of thought incorporates both. Religions would not touch evolution and science would not look at souls. Need it be said that all the systems are deficient in this important respect?

Evolution gave us our true origin and transmigration will supply our true destination. Together they constitute the complete perspective on life.

Realizing the importance of the subject, a scientific research on the mechanism of transmigration is the crying need of the hour.



METHODOLOGY AND OBJECTIVES> In the first phase the research will concentrate on the personal accounts of rebirth cases, much on the lines of a psychological post-mortem of the soul, as published from time to time. It should give us the basics about the soul such as what is retained by it in addition to memories and emotions, and the personal motive for rebirth.

In phase two some verifiable parameter of the soul for its true identification has to be discovered through advance preparedness for rebirths. It may be accomplished by recording various parameters such as thumb-print, frequency of voice, DNA-RNA prints of all the members of a few hamlets then comparing the parameters of the new born with those of the dead.

Successful matching will give us the verifiable parameter for identification and prove conclusively the existence and journeying of the soul. Over the years it will also throw light on (1) the criterion guiding the selection of parents, place, gender and sequence among the siblings; (2) the influence of previous lives on the present one, which, if true, will establish the fact that the roots of individual nature go deeper than genetics and environment.

In phase three some technique for activating the unconscious memory of the soul has to be developed to probe deeper into the past experiences of the soul. Extensive research in this phase will lead us to the general pattern of transmigration and its purpose- the evolution of the soul.

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Through a seamless fusion of evolution with rebirths, one arrives at the most rational and
humane perspective of life. Please read on .......

A commonsensical view of LIFE


The problem:
Life is an enigma. There are as many theories about it as there are thinking minds. Can there be a single, consensual interpretation?

The difficulty:
Prophet, poet or philosopher; whoever contemplated on life faced two realities- an eternal beautiful universe in the background and the short, wretched existence of the most intelligent being in the foreground. What is the connection between the two? This little inquiry has fathered the various schools of philosophy and theology. Life as a subject is unimaginably vast and very mysterious.

Life, though difficult to comprehend, is much easier to experience. But, such experiences can not be described in words. Our language is too inadequate to express routine aesthetic experiences.

The pit-falls:
In spite of our great similarity with other animals there was a mistaken belief in our divine origin. The descent theory to explain human misery is current in theological school.

The other pit-fall is a limited vision. Life as a whole can not be understood by considering the trials and tribulations of a single life. It is akin to explaining a life span by considering a lone moment from it. Denial of any purpose and order is current in atheism and materialism.

Those who recognized the immortality of soul were tempted to find its relationship with the imaginary prime cause or God. Monism, dualism and non-dualism were the by-products.

The Precaution:
The soul is real, god is imaginary. Any relationship between the two is bound to be imaginary.

We know very little about the soul. A genuine case of rebirth provides a clue. The memory about previous life has a non-genetic source. That which retains the memory beyond the grave is named soul. And recollection of this memory is a temporary aberration of the general rule of amnesia.

The solution:
After avoiding the pit-fall and taking the precautions, a scheme begins to emerge. The earth is the breeding and training ground for souls. Microorganism with a micro-soul can not be ruled out easily.

Life began in the sea (water with soluble air); it diversified on land (air with soluble water). It progressed from denser to lighter medium.

Not only our bodies but our souls, too, have evolved in a couple of billion years through millions of lives in different life forms and species. When all desires for sensual pleasures are satisfied, the soul loses its inclination to be born again. It is, then, released to explore the universe.

At present, we are at a particular epoch of evolution. After the biological evolution of the mind, we are suffering from the teething troubles of its intellectual evolution. Many a civilizations have vanished in the process.

Ground Realities:
To put it very simplistically, we have yet to learn to co-exist constructively. Those with deprived childhood or the pampered few; both have little chance of turning out to be normal adults. They go on acting out their child-hood fantasies. Our problem, therefore, lies in our child-hood. Nurture is steeped in ignorance (pride and prejudice) while nature (genetics) is left to chance or the stars. We are more careful about breeding animals.

Lest we forget the most important ingredient of a meaningful human life, love enables us to experience life deeply. Nature appears to tell us to love and experience life leaving its understanding to the three P's.

Re-capitulation:
Life is a merry relay race of gene-machines, governed by material and moral laws, for the evolution of the souls. Its beginning and end are shrouded in eternity. Total human misery is man-made. The shortness of one life ideally ensures millions of other lives each new and unique. One can not find faults in the scheme of nature where matter has a mind of its own- its property to discern other matters under various combinations of pressure and temperature.