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Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Talk 644.
A District Official, a Muslim: What is the necessity for reincarnation?
M.: Let us first see if there is incarnation before we speak of
reincarnation.
D.: How?
M.: Are you now incarnated that you speak of reincarnation?
D.: Yes. Certainly. An amoeba developed into higher organisms until
the human being has been evolved. This is now the perfection in
development. Why should there be further reincarnation?
M.: Who is to set limits to this theory of evolution?
D.: Physically it is perfect. But for the soul, further development may
be required which will happen after the death of the man.
M.: Who is the man? Is he the body or the soul?
D.: Both put together.
M.: Do you not exist in the absence of the body?
D.: How do you mean? It is impossible.
M.: What was your state in deep sleep?
D.: Sleep is temporary death. I was unconscious and therefore I cannot
say what the state was.
M.: But you existed in sleep. Did you not?
D.: In sleep the soul leaves the body and goes out somewhere. Then it
returns to the body before waking. It is therefore temporary death.
M.: A man who is dead never returns to say that he died, whereas the
man who had slept says that he slept.
D.: Because this is temporary death.
M.: If death is temporary and life is temporary, what is it that is real?
D.: What is meant by the question?
M.: If life and death be temporary, there must be something which is
not temporary. Reality is that which is not temporary.
D.: There is nothing real. Everything is temporary. Everything is maya.
M.: On what does maya appear?
D.: Now I see you; it is all maya.
M.: If everything is maya, how does any question arise?
D.: Why should there be reincarnation?
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