Comment to 'Reincarnation: Who Is It That Travels?'
  • Impressive presentation! His analogies I found to be on point. It would be a really good introductory-level revision for inSelf yogis as far as providing an easy, understandable example that demonstrates the difference between a subtle body and the physical. In particular, that of software versus hardware and then electricity as a parallelism for the technicalities of soul transmigration or migration as techies call it.

    From there jumping to liberation and cessation of all causes of suffering by the destruction of the psyche (false identification as he puts it), which includes what he’d call the false ego (or the social self) is a super simplistic non-yogic response to the sum total of the inSelf yogis’ endeavor.

    Suggesting that this is done by just doing self-inquiry and the words of the Vedanta in order to “attain” (my word), the ancient rishis, denotes a lack of knowledge regarding the process and the product to be applied to it. Yes, moksha would also include dispelling ignorance, I’d say by certainly approaching a rishi, as I can dialogue with one right here.

    Lack of validated direct experience of the psyche whatever the practice or techniques applied renders a serious impediment regarding that very issue. And without such, the presentation or argumentation ends IMO in a propaganda of sorts, I miss the practical value.