Reincarnating Toward God

By on April 27, 2010 in Spirituality

Question:

Hi Deepak!  What is reborn? I get the hit that there’s only God and that God is being each one of us and everything there is.  So when our bodies wear out will "I" be reborn or will I just blend/expand back into God and perhaps only my mind will be reborn in another body?

 Answer:

The part of us that doesn’t know we are God, that universal intelligence, that undeveloped collection of experience is what reincarnates.  In Sanskrit it is called the jiva. It contains the necessary impulses to coalesce a physical body with the pertinent karma to fulfill the soul’s next leg in it’s  spiritual journey to self-realization.  It continues the cycle of births  until the awakening is complete. After enlightenment there is no longer a need to take birth in a physical body. You are then free to blend/expand into the divinity that you have always been.

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Deepak

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10 Responses to Reincarnating Toward God

  1. Diablo April 26, 2010 at 10:50 pm #

    what if you come back as an octopus? our a sour pus?

  2. ardverk April 27, 2010 at 12:28 am #

    At least you'll be able to get a grip on things, Diab :)

  3. ardverk April 27, 2010 at 12:33 am #

    What if you come baqck as an ouroboros? No end to that tale ;)

  4. Kristen Thurman April 27, 2010 at 7:37 am #

    Let's get 'er done in this lifetime!

  5. TheSwordsMAN2 April 27, 2010 at 8:14 am #

    Diab: granpa Ed is da man, but will he be around when we come back? Maybe he'll be blending and expanding around us.

  6. Diablo April 27, 2010 at 4:53 pm #

    swordsman..damn!

    where's flabsy and his buddy amber? can u see flabs on his big, ole tractor and amber with a glass of tomato juice actin' cool?

  7. Diablo April 27, 2010 at 4:58 pm #

    granpa…what's ouroboros? wait a minute…is it a dragon? damn!

  8. ardverk April 28, 2010 at 3:23 am #

    Dragon? Now please…..don't speak about Kristen like that ;)

  9. Diablo April 28, 2010 at 11:16 am #

    ok granpa, she prefers snake…! no!

  10. rasaha May 2, 2010 at 11:12 am #

    Soul resides in ignorance. The journey towards God is act of liberation. As long as every soul is liberated the universe will exist.