The Bhagavad-Gita, the holy book of Lord Krishna, says the following:
“The Being is not born, does not die, nor reincarnates; it has no origin, is eternal, and changeless, the first of all, and does not die when the body passes away.”
Let our Gnostic readers now reflect on the following contradictory and antithetical verse.
“As someone leaves aside their worn out clothes and puts on new ones, so the embodied Being leaves its spent body and enters a new one.”
Two opposing verses from the Great Avatar Krishna. If we did not know the key we would obviously be confused:
“Leaving the body, taking the path of fire, of light, of the day, of the luminous lunar fortnight of the northern solstice, those knowledgeable of Brahma, go towards Brahma. The yogi who when dead, takes the path of smoke of the dark lunar fortnight and of the southern solstice, reaches the lunar sphere (the astral world) and is then reborn (returns, embodies).
“These two paths, the bright and the dark, are considered permanent. Through the first, one is emancipated and through the second, one is reborn (returns).”
We declare that the Being, the Lord incarnate in some perfect creature, can return, reincarnate…
“When the Lord (THE BEING) acquires a body, or leaves it, He associates with the six senses or abandons them and passes like the breeze which carries with it the scent of flowers.
“Directing the ears, the eyes, the organs of touch, taste and smell as well as the mind, HE experiences the objects of the senses.
“The ignorant, those who hallucinate, do not see Him when HE takes a body, when HE leaves it or has experiences associated with the Gunas. On the other hand, those who have the Eyes of Wisdom see Him.”
As an extraordinary document on the doctrine of reincarnation it is worth meditating on the following verse of Lord Krishna.
“Oh, Bharata! Every time that religion deteriorates and irreligion prevails, I incarnate anew (in other words – I reincarnate) to protect the good, destroy the evil and establish religion, I incarnate (or reincarnate) in different times.”
From all these verses of Lord Krishna, two conclusions can be logically drawn:
- Those who know Brahma go to Brahma and can, if they so desire, return, embody, REINCARNATE, to carry out the GREAT WORK of the Father.
- Those who have not dissolved the EGO, the SELF, the MYSELF, go, after death, through the path of smoke, of the dark lunar fortnight and the southern solstice, reaching the Lunar sphere and are then reborn, RETURN, embody in this painful Vale of Samsara. The doctrine of the Great Avatar Krishna teaches that only the Gods, Semi Gods, Divine Sovereigns, Titans and Devas reincarnate.
To return is something very different: unquestionably it is the Return of the Kalpas, Yugas, Mahamvantaras, Maha-Pralayas, etc.
The Law of Eternal Return of all things is always combined with the Law of Recurrence.
The EGOS return incessantly to repeat dramas, scenes and events, here and now. The past is projected towards the future through the passage of the present.
The word Reincarnation is most exigent, it should not be used carelessly: No one could reincarnate without first having eliminated the Ego, without truly possessing Sacred
Individuality. Incarnation is a very venerable word, signifying in fact the re-embodiment of the Divine in a man.
Reincarnation is the repetition of such a cosmic event, a new manifestation of the Divine…
In no manner whatever do we exaggerate concepts by emphasizing the transcendental idea that Reincarnation is only possible for the Golden Embryos, which have achieved in whichever cycle of manifestation, glorious union with the Super-Soul.
It would be absurd to confuse REINCARNATION with RETURN. We would be making the worst kind of mistake to attest that the EGO – legion of dark, sinister, twisted Egos – can reincarnate.
Samael Aun Weor
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