Reincarnation....

This topic has been on my mind for the last 3 years. Some events in my life that had deep impact on me made me think about it more often. Even though I grew up hearing about reincarnation but I never gave it a serious thought. If you believe in and follow nature, you must be aware that that everything in nature moves in cycles. Like the seasons, all livings things moves from birth, growth, fruition and ultimately to death - like in nature we see spring, summer, fall and winter. Similarly daily cycle of morning, afternoon, mid afternoon, evening and ultimately night.   You must also know that after night again we see a morning which is different morning than the last one, after winter we see spring when new seeds initiate life in to a plant and blossoming of flowers initiates. 

Same way, following the cycle of nature, death is also followed by a new birth - what goes around comes around. Our Hindu scriptures shows us that our spirit that temporarily resides in our bodies can not be burned or destroyed with the body. It just adopts a new form or a new body and in a life form where through physical body it goes through good and bad deeds ( Karma). The spirit is enriched by good and bad experiences and keep on going through this cycle until it is perfected to reach the stage of Nirvana or Moksha (ultimate Bliss).

I believe that the reason that physically and mentally we are so different, because our spirit goes through different learning processes and our spiritual knowledge is limited by our experiences that make us different in our thinking. Do you ever wonder why we think, feel so differently than others? It only make sense because every physical being's 'Spiritual Maturity' is very different.Do you ever wonder why some people are born so talented artists or singers, writers or turned out to be so intelligent at a very early age? How did they learn all this without going through any schooling which is normal mundane way of learning though there is no guarantee that one can become an artist just by going through schooling.

Re-birth can be easier to grasp if we understand that 'We' are not our bodies. Even though our logical mind thinks in reverse and makes it difficult for us to imagine or believe that concept of departing from one body and then assuming another because we blindly and habitually we have come to identify ourselves with the body - this body - the one we see in the mirror everyday. We may be right in saying that it is "My body" as this phrase make us the owner of the body, even though temporarily until this body perishes as we leave it after death. 

What is awareness? We can not be aware of our body as an object  that we can view as an observer. Our physical body and mind make it hard for us to comprehend that 'We (Spirit)' are someone that is temporarily residing in this body.  As Lord Krishna states in The Bhagwat Gita:

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from childhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change."

and,

"Worn-out garments are shed by the body; Worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller within the body. New bodies are donned by the dweller, like garments."