Message #6546

[Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?]

Reincarnation?

To free itself from experience of death, the soul must first avoid entering a body-prison; and the way to avoid that is to cease creating and pursuing material desires which cannot be satisfied anywhere except on the material plane, and which therefore make it necessary for the soul to reincarnate.

To be released from a prison one must first have entered the prison. When the soul enters and becomes identified with the body, it forgets about the unlimited kingdom of spirit which it forsook in order to incarnate on earth...The prodigal son is jailed in flesh, and must work out its term. As some prisoners who live long in the in the confinement of jail grow accustomed to it and even begin to like it, so some souls, long caged in the bodily prison, grow attached to the body....