The Soul, Reincarnation, and Life After Death

Hi Jeff

Loved the conversation on soul development -2. Talking about urgency. I am just experimenting with few ideas…..If I look upon the soul as beyond this life time (which means even after my death, the soul take on a different life time)... Which means what ever my actions are develops or not develops 'my' soul. At the time of my death, what ever is the level of development of 'my' soul at the time of my death is the level to which the soul appears again through another life form (this life form is not me as ego). So for example 'my' soul is now having a life form called Arul Dev. 200 years from now 'my?' soul may have another life form called Mary (who is not me as ego). When I allow this to hit me, it dawns on me a huge moral responsibility. If I don't develop my soul Mary is going to have to do lot more work. Its like in Shuttle relay that we play in school. If out of the team one person slows down the whole team loses. This really compels me with high urgency that every moment I contribute to development of my soul and that of others.

Now another question arises what happens to the soul after death. When I asked this to someone she said, it joins God or consciousness. Well this hits further. If what I do today, this moment, is going to develop my soul, which impacts other life forms and which ultimately impacts God or Consciousness, there is no choice. I am implicated to develop soul of all in this life time to the very best and more of what I can. In spite of all odds.

The danger of this implication is that one is overwhelmed. And sometimes then one says this is too large; and can just go on the opposite direction. So I guess the action path is to push and allow this implication to hit you and at the same time take action and succeed in being integral again and again and again.

However the way I am looking at this seems a bit too 'personalising'. The key I guess to action in terms of integrity in day to day life is to look at this impersonally, as a human condition. And fully participate in the development of soul as if my life and others depended on it

Thanks for the call. I listened to it in podcast

Arul Dev