18. WE CAN BE LIBERATED FROM REBIRTH
Not many people even know about rebirth. They may have some vague idea, but they don't realize that the ME, Mind and Ego is born, again and again in a new body, and it suffers. But the Truth is that we can be liberated from this cycle of Samsara, from the transmigration of the Soul.
For this, we must first realize who we truly are and we must understand our life purpose. When we go in quest of the Divine Truth and we realize we are not the body, the mind, the ego, but the Soul, then we cease to be the one who is doing the action. If we are not the ones doing the action, then the Karma is not ours. We do not have to be reborn to redeem our actions because of our realization of the Truth. The realization that we are the Soul, liberates us from all our past and present Karma, just as it liberates us from the suffering of the body, mind, and ego. We enjoy true Bliss of the Soul.
Unfortunately, because we are enveloped in Maya, the cosmic illusion, the myth supersedes the Truth and our ignorance makes us live and die as the body-mind complex, only to be reborn. Everybody who is born, suffers and our ultimate goal is to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth. The only way to liberation is the Realization of the Truth which comes from Enlightenment – overcoming the darkness of ignorance with which we live and die.