Reincarnation (Samsara)

"The term "reincarnation" usually refers to some form of individual consciousness, which remains in tact from one life to the next. A more accurate understanding is that birth and death recur within consciousness as a result of unresolved desires. Essentially, birth and death are impersonal processes, driven by cosmic law. By the time a recurring birth takes place, the subtle body (including the individual consciousness and memory) has been consumed in the various stages of death. But it's all right, because the subtle body was only a shell of psychic impressions. The true self (the spiritual body, or soul) remains in tact during countless cycles of birth and death."...Life Beyond Death: Stage Three - Extracting the Essence

• Reincarnation: A Simple Explanation...by Stephen Knapp
  "Reincarnation is called samsara in the classic Vedic texts of India. The word samsara is Sanskrit and means being bound to the cycle of repeated birth and death through numerous lifetimes. How this works is that those who are materially conditioned transmigrate through different bodies according to one’s desires and past activities (or karma) and familiarities. Their desires, if materially motivated, requires a physical body to enable them to continue to work out their material longings in various conditions of life."
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