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Reincarnation
The birth of a Jiva is the acceptance of a body as his own Self.Itis even liked reamorfancy.
In dream or fancy a man does not know his present Self as the former Self. The mind attaches itself to a new body and causes a birth into that body. He does not remember his relation to his previous body because death and the new body entirely cut off the memory. He thinks himself to be a new man, although he is not new.
Just as a man in dream, creates and sees many bodies, so also this threefold division viz., Adhidaiva etc., which is the creation of the mind, is the cause of perceiving difference as the external and internal things projected on the real Atman and is the source of evil like one who gives birth to a wicked son. Though a father may have neither friend nor enemy, he is affected by the connections formed by his wicked son. Similar is the case with Atman. O dear one, every moment creatures are continually born and die. But this is not perceptible on account of the extreme subtlety and inconceivable velocity of time. As in the case of flames, currents of water or the fruits of a tree, so in the case of all creatures, age and other conditions are produced by time in unbroken succession.
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