How does Rebirth happen?


The sense of consciousness that see, hear, smell, taste and feel tactile sensations and the gross mental consciousness, functions actively while we are alive. When one is dying, they cease to function and absorbed into subtle mental consciousness.

The subtle mind mind bears the imprints of the actions we have done (Karma) with all the tendencies, preferences, abilities and characteristics that have been developed and conditioned in this life.

After death, the subtle mind leaves one body, enters the intermediate state and re-establishes itself in a fertilized egg in another body. After the subtle mind joins with another body at the moment of conception, the gross sense of consciousness reappear and the person again sees, hears, thinks and so forth.

The subtle mind which goes from one life to the next is a constantly changing phenomena and it cannot be considered to be a soul or real personality. Thus, the individual is reborn and develops a personality conditioned both by mental characteristics that have been carried over and by the new environment.

The personality will change and be modified by conscious, parental influence and society. At death, it re-establishes itself in a new fertilized egg.

This process of dying and being reborn will continue until the conditions that cause it, Craving and Ignorance cease to exist. When they do, instead of being reborn, the mind attains a state called Nirvana, which is release from all suffering.

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