Five Lectures on Reincarnation

Swami Abhedananda

Capitolo 11

preached a lot of once that touches the question of the pre-existence and
rebirth of the individual soul. Swedenborg and Emerson maintained
it. Emerson tells his/her composition on you Experiment, "We wake up and we find
us on a step. There are steps under us what we seem to have
ascended;  there are steps above of us, very an one, what you/they must be directed upward and
out of sight."

Almost all the poets, ancient or modern they profess him/it. William
Wordsworth says in the "Announcements of the immortality:"--

  "The soul that rises with us the star of our life,,
    Hath had elsewhere his/her setting,
  It is far cometh from."

Tennyson writes in the "Two Bawls;"

  "Or, if I cross the lowest lives I came--
  Tho all experiment past it became,
  You consolidate in mind and frame--
  It is probable that I forget my weaker destiny;
  For it is not our first year it forgot?
  The places of meeting of echo of memory not."

Walt Whitman says in "Leaves of Grass:"

  "As to You, the Life, I calculate you it is the leftovers of a lot of deaths,
  Without doubt I am me dead first ten thousand times."

Similar passages can be quoted from almost all the poets of different
countries. Also among the aboriginal tribes of Africa, Asia, north
and South America, traces of this belief in the rebirth of souls are
is found. Three-fourth of the population of Asia almost believes in
the doctrine of Reincarnation, and through him they finds a satisfactory
explanation of the problem of the life. There is not any religion that denies
the continuity of the individual soul after death.

Those that don't believe in Reincarnation try to explain the world of
the inequalities and the differences or from the theory of one-birth or from the
theory of hereditary transmission. None of these theories, however,
it is enough to explain the inequalities in which we meet with ours
every day the life. Those that believe in the theory of one-birth that we have
comes here for the first one and last time, doesn't understand that the
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