Argument: Dalai Llama has stated that ‘Reincarnation is his personal right’! How ludicrous does in sound in 2011?!! Eod, rationality & religion cannot coexist.
All that we set into motion in a particular life (predetermined or not) contributes to the individual ego. This Iness cannot disappear on death. As long as this I doesn’t become universal it is bound to drop back from other subtle dimensions to rework as an incarnation. There is a choice to exercise free will if one has lived a true vedantic, buddhist or a socialist life since they reach universal state where they have an option to will their next life or merge in the background (god). This is what is meant by Dalai Lama when he says “Reincarnation is his personal right’.
In Dalai Lama’s words, any set of beliefs that make an individual more compassionate, sensible, detached, loving, humanitarian, responsible and ethical is the religion for that individual. And there is no religion higher than the truth.
Rationality, is not an absolute for all times. Its perception itself undergoes heavenly changes as the frog jumps out of the well. Let us not dismiss what we don’t understand as not rational. If one were to have this dogma then we would still be in the dark ages with the Sun revolving around the Earth.
Reincarnation is a universal concept, whose rapport is not just limited to human life. In fact if u R 2 believe science even a little, then Big bang and big crunch are cyclic with the info. of one cycle being carried to next. And the microcosm has to reflect the macrocosm since the universe started from a singularity (spooky action at distance). It is an evident rational to encompass the human life which has the same core as the singularity; call it spirit if u wish.
The energy in an enclosed system is always conserved. It can only change forms or when entropy is maximum, dissolve into the background and become one with the canvas. Looks familiar to reincarnation and Nirvana, doesn’t it.
When I say rationality is time bound i encompass both the collective time or era and also the time in relation to the individuals life. Jitendra Katara was my good friend and we never ever have any godstuff between us. Now he leads his life in the service of Sai… and keeps me in good mind. He reminded me of the karmic law of culmination of a certain cause can only be differed not eliminated. It made sense to me and am healing well. Now this acceptance and its effects has become rationality to me. This is individual time. In the universal context when Eienstein said – God doesnt play dice, he meant that the God Orderly Direction of the universe inherent in its nature is pretty tight. sorry…i lost focus…c u later
Eventually, socialism would give way to a communist stage of history: a classless, stateless system based on common ownership and free-access, superabundance and maximum freedom for individuals to develop their own capacities and talents. As a political movement, Marxism advocates for the creation of such a society.- Wikipedia
I see no conflict here.
