Ramana Maharishi: - Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance.+

Accepting in rebirth and reincarnation theory as reality is accepting false self (waking entity or ego) as real Self and false experience (waking) as reality.

Self-realization is impossible if one accepts the present waking entity as the real Self because the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is a dream entity, but the Self is a nondual Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.

The three states are impermanent, but the Soul or consciousness, which is the witness of the three states, is permanent and eternal.

In reality, the three states are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. Therefore, there is no second thing exists other than consciousness. Thus, consciousness (Soul) is second to none.

Deeper Self -search reveals the fact that, the waking experiences itself is an illusion. It means the present experience of birth, life, death and the world are an illusion.

Thus, the reincarnation theory based on the false Self within the false experience is bound to be a falsehood. When the waking entity is not the Self, then whatever theories are based on the waking entity imagined theory.

This imagined theory based on the waking entity or ego is for those lower mindset who are incapable of grasping the ultimate truth or Brahman.

People who are caught up with the idea of reincarnation and rebirth theories are not qualified for Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because they accepted the duality as reality. Birth implies duality and duality, is falsehood from the ultimate standpoint. ~Santthosh Kumaar

From the Teachings of Ramana Maharishi

Question: - is reincarnation true?

Sage Sri Ramana Maharishi: ~ Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance. There is really no reincarnation at all, either now or before. Nor will there be any hereafter. This is the truth.

[Note: Comments by David Godman: Most religions have constructed elaborate theories which purport to explain what happens to the individual Soul after the death of the body. Some claim that the Soul goes to heaven or hell, while others claim that it is reincarnated in a new body.

Sage Ramana Maharishi taught that all such theories are based on the false assumption that the individual Self or Soul is real; once this illusion is seen through, the whole superstructure of afterlife theories collapses. From the standpoint of the Self, there is no birth or death, no heaven or hell, and no reincarnation.

As a concession to those who were unable to assimilate the implications of this truth, Sage Sri Ramana would sometimes admit that reincarnation existed. In replying to such people, he would say that if one imagined that the individual 'Self' was real, then that imaginary Self would persist after death and that eventually it would identify with a new body and a new life. The whole process, he said, is sustained by the tendency of the mind to identify itself with a body. Once the limiting illusion of mind is transcended, identification with the body ceases, and all theories about death and reincarnation are found to be inapplicable.]