00:00It is said that the same person is taking rebirth with that same vasanas and whatever we have done in
00:07the past.
00:08That's not what Vedanta says. Vedanta never talks about individual rebirth.
00:13Rebirth is a beautiful concept to explain the cycle of movement in Prakrati.
00:19The totality of all this keeps showing up in various forms again and again.
00:26The individual is never reborn. Never. That's not Vedanta. You will have only one life. You will never be reborn.
00:32A dead body lies somewhere and a stray animal comes and eats some part of it.
00:37That part becomes that animal's body. That's rebirth.
00:40The various parts of your body will be reborn as various things at various points in time.
00:46That does not mean that you as individual will ever take rebirth. No, that will not happen.
00:51In fact, this concept of the individual soul, the Jivatma, has done India a lot of harm.
00:59Lot of harm.
01:00Patalism, casteism, all these have relied heavily on the concept of personal rebirth.
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