Re: does anybody here not believe in reincarnation? plus a question about Brahman!
Originally Posted by
Jetavan
Nisargadatta is not denying that reincarnation happens -- if you identify yourself with your mind (memories, hopes, dreams, desires) and call that "me" or "I". Since most of us do identify ourselves to be that, then we experience/suffer reincarnation.
However, once you realize that you are Param-Atman, Brahman, Awareness/Being/Bliss Itself, then you realize that you have never been born, and you will never die, and you have never "reincarnated".
Nisargadatta seems to be paraphrasing Buddhism in his advaitic language.
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself —And there isn't one
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