by Dr. Ekkirala Krishnamacharya Book Presentation Overview General

I am expected to speak about reincarnation or rebirth this evening. In some parts of the globe people know it. Some people think that it is only a belief. It was considered to be a religious belief also. In the course of time people came to know of the evolution on this earth. The coming of Darwin and his followers once again introduced the theory of evolution. Many scientists have improved upon Darwin’s theory till now. Even now the Darwinian theory of evolution has some questions left unsolved. There are still many things to be explained and many gaps are to be filled. In the meanwhile, the science of spiritualism developed with all its branches. It has gradually covered the missing links of evolution theory. Because of the foremost thinkers of the world till now, many of the gaps in the theory of evolution have been filled up and now we have self-sufficient theory before us. The theory contains three aspects: The Theory of Evolution, The Theory of Reincarnation and The Theory of Karma.

The three branches put together form a self-sufficient science and people who have time to understand this self-sufficient theory now, no more take it in the light of a religious belief. It is not a belief; it is a scientific truth. It is understood by sound commonsense by those who have an objective approach. It is a matter of experience to those who have undergone spiritual discipline. It is a simple scientific truth in the eyes of the true scientists. Now, there are people who don’t believe, there are people who really understand and believe and there are people who believe though they do not understand. There are also people who have made their own fantastic theories. Our purpose today is to pick-up the real theories that stand to reason, commonsense and experience of those who have undergone spiritual discipline.

Some people believe that a soul may be born as a human being or as an animal. Many times we are born as animals and human beings as a result of our karma. Those who do good deeds are born as human beings and those who do bad deeds are born as animals or insects. For moral teachings the theory may be good, but the theory is semi-imaginative or fantastic. How can animals choose to be born as human beings unless they do good deeds and avoid bad deeds?

Some believe in India that men are born only as men in the next birth and women are born as women and in the Occident also, I have seen people who believe so. It is also not true because man and woman are only biological conveniences of the physical body though many of us are conditioned by the instinct of sex. The much emotion and romance which the biological kingdom feels about man and woman are the result of an instinct given by Nature. Therefore, Nature has no classification of man souls and woman souls for persons to be born as male and female. The choice lies in the Law of Fitness for soul training. The reason exists in Nature which teaches us things. To be born as a woman or a man teaches us different aspects of life, that teaches two different dispositions which find their perfection in motherhood and fatherhood. Since these two aspects are to be perfected by every soul in evolution, it is natural that everyone of us should be born as woman and man also many times. Since Nature wants us to develop all dimensions of man and woman, it uses either male birth or female birth according to the need of our evolution. Hence it is not true that male souls are continuously born as men and female souls are born as women.

One fact in Nature is, man takes interest in woman more and woman takes interest in man more. It is a natural instinct and the reason for this must be the supplementary development of temperament of the human beings. Since Nature contrives multidimensional development, there is the need for attraction between two sexes. The whole earth has its own axis which acts with the two poles of a magnet and whenever it is necessary in creation, Nature introduces this strange phenomenon of polarity that is attraction and repulsion. The physical cells of the man attract the woman and the physical cells of the woman attract the man. Thus Nature contrives reproduction. When all these things are carefully observed, we understand that we need to be both as man and as woman in a series of births. When mother nature is to be induced, we are born to play the role of a wife, when the father nature is to be induced, we are born as a husband. So, when immature, we play the role of husband and wife and when mature, we realise fatherhood and motherhood. That is what Nature expects of us. Therefore, we may be man or woman in the next birth as per the need of our evolution. Some people believe that we have an alternation of male and female births. If we are born as a male this time, the next time we will be born as female. It is a probability and it cannot be reduced to a theory. The probability is that a person who is dedicated to sex life will be thinking of the opposite sex, in which case he will be in the opposite sex. This is also a probability.