Our identities are associated with our bodies, but our bodies are constantly changing as we lose cells and our thoughts and emotions change over time. However, we remain the same individuals. We can experience ourselves as the changeless essence underneath the changing physical bodies that are born, grow, and perish. Rebirth of identities is related to the continuity of consciousness and memories across lifetimes, as seen in some historical figures who seemed to have memories of past lives. However, others show no signs of memories of past lives. Rebirth is not just a psychological concept but a real phenomenon, as consciousness is constant and the cycles of birth and rebirth continue within it. Science cannot yet prove rebirth because it has not defined or identified consciousness as

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DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. Our identity is usually associated with our
body.
But actually body cells are dead and lost to
a variable extent. Even our passions,
emotions and thoughts are undergoing
changes. But we remain the same
individuals!
Thus without denying our association with
the changing existence, we can experience
that we are changeless backdrop or
background or substratum on which the

3. changing bodies are born, grown and
perished.
Rebirth of identities pertains to concurrent
consciousness and memories. This is
observed in case of certain historical figures
such as Shripad Shrivallabh and Narasimha
Saraswati. Others do not have the memory
or consciousness to endorse
rebirth.
Rebirth is not a lame explanation for
consoling or pacifying the suffering of
people. It is not a theory merely born as a
psychological tool.

4. Consciousness is constant and the cycles of
birth and rebirth continue on and within it!
The proof of rebirth through science needs
identification, definition and understanding
of consciousness as a separate entity.
Because when the word rebirth is used; it
pertains to the individual consciousness!
Since Human consciousness can not identify
human consciousness as a separate entity; it
is not possible to “prove” rebirth!

5. DR. SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR