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Occurred at ease, why doubt the fact of rebirth?
Jem Jem Mati Kalpana, Ane Moh Udyot; Tem Tem Bhav Shankanä, Apätra Antar Jyot.
Lesser the intellect and more the delusion, Greater would be the doubt and unworthy of enlightenment.
Kari Kalpana Dradh Kare, Nänä Näsati Vichär, Pan Asti Te Soochave, E Ja Kharo Nirdhär
One may indulge in various concepts of non-existence; Existence of soul is the truth and that is the right decision.
He asserts in a letter written by the end of 1896: "There is reincarnation for sure, I am very firm to say so on the basis of experience. That sentence has been written while recollecting some event of the previous life. It has been written after learning about the object (soul), which has undergone rebirth etc."
In evidence of the memory of earlier births, he writes in a letter of 1890:
"I apologize again and again for any discourtesy, disrespect or the loss of composure towards you till Samvatsari (the day of atonement) by virtue of improper exercising of my mental, vocal or physical capabilities.
"While recollecting from within there does not seem to be any time when this soul might not have wandered, might not have indulged in fantasy or figment and thereby might not have forsaken the composure. That recollection occurs incessantly and that leads to the intense detachment.
"It also occurs, 'Why did this soul not resort to detachment while roaming at will? Why did it not realize that it was wrong to indulge in anger, arrogance, deception and greed towards others?' It should have realized that. The fact that it did not do so leads to disaffection for the continuing wandering.
"Moreover, though it was thought impossible to survive without certain situations like having wife etc.), yet the life continued after losing the same. Isn't it highly amazing that such incidents happened innumerable times and the life continued even after losing them long back? It means that the affection for those situations was imaginary. The fact that such fancied affection was held leads to detachment again and again.
“Besides, why was born as a son or a wife or a male/maid servant or even as a bug in the family of one, whom I did not want to see any time, whom I did not want even to touch? Though I had no intention of doing that, yet I had to take those types of births! Would it not be despicable to remember those defiled states of the soul? It surely does.
"What else to say? By recollecting the wandering from birth to birth by virtue of delusion, the problem that occurs is how to live now. There prevails at the inner level a firm decision not to get a new birth, not to repeat what has been done. But what can be done in face of helplessness? The firmness needs to be implemented; there is a strong yearning for that. However, what comes in the way has to be set aside and that takes time. Meanwhile the lifespan is slipping away and something has to be done early. There lies a firmness within that the life should not come to the end before overcoming that condition. But where is the place to stay for resorting to the right endeavor? In other words, where are the saintly people, who can be depended upon while staying in that state?
