“I was taken to the place where the sun sets. While at that place, I thought I would come back to earth again, and the old man with whom I was staying said to me, ‘My son, did you not speak about wanting to go to the earth again?’ I had, as a matter of fact, only thought of it, yet he knew what I wanted. Then he said to me, ‘You can go, but you must ask the chief first.’ Then I went and told the chief of the village of my desire, and he said to me, ‘You may go and obtain your revenge upon the people who killed your relatives and you.’ Then I was brought down to earth. There I lived until I died of old age. As I was lying, someone said to me, ‘Come, let us go away.’ So then we went toward the setting of the sun. There we came to a village where we met all the dead. From that place I came to this earth again for the third time, and here I am.” ~ Chief Thunder Cloud aka T.C., a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk tribe) shaman
“The power that keeps the individual soul bound to the wheel of life and death is its thirst for separate existence, which is a condition for a host of cravings connected with objects and experiences of the world of duality. It is for the fulfillment of cravings that the ego-mind keeps on incarnating itself. When all forms of craving disappear, the impressions which create and enliven the ego-mind disappear. With the disappearance of these impressions, the ego-mind itself is shed with the result that there is only the realisation of the one eternal, unchanging Oversoul or God, Who is the only reality. God-realisation is the end of the incarnations of the ego-mind because it is the end of its very existence. As long as the ego-mind exists in some form, there is an inevitable and irresistible urge for incarnations. When there is cessation of the ego-mind, there is cessation of incarnations in the final fulfillment of Self-realisation.” ~ मेहेर बाबा
“Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from childhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.” ~ श्रीमद् भगवद् गीता
“Worn-out garments are shed by the body; worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller within the body. New bodies are donned by the dweller, like garments.” ~ श्रीमद् भगवद् गीता
“Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting-point. Existence without limitation is Space. Continuity without a starting point is Time. There is birth, there is death, there is issuing forth, there is entering in.” ~ 庄子
