Do you believe in reincarnation, read on and make up your own mind!

I do not deal in theories. I am a simple man, not a theoretician

I do not deal in theories. I am a simple man, not a theoretician. A theoretician is a great thinker. He knows nothing about reality, but he goes on creating theories about it. His whole life he goes around and around, and the truth, reality, is just at the center. But the theoretician is skilled in beating around the bush.
The moment you start trusting somebody else, you stop inquiring on your own. And I would not like you to stop your own individual inquiry. For thousands of years this is how man has been deceived and exploited. I want to destroy that whole strategy at its very roots. Trust only your own experience. It does not matter whether I say yes or no. What matters is whether you have experienced it or not. That is going to be decisive, that is going to transform your life.
There are three religions — Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism — which have taken a negative stand on the theory of reincarnation. They say it is not true.
This is a negative belief. Parallel to these three there are three religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism — which have taken a positive attitude. They say yes, reincarnation is a reality. But that is also a belief, a positive belief.
My approach is a third one, which has not been tried up to now. I say accept the theory as hypothetical, neither saying yes nor saying no. Accepting it as hypothetical means, “I am ready to inquire into it with no prejudice, positive or negative. I am ready to go into it without any preconceived idea, to see what is the truth.”
Religions have not used the word hypothesis at all. Either you are a believer or you are a non-believer. The non-believer is also a believer, only negatively. They are not qualitatively different, they are the same type of people. When you take a negative belief or a positive belief, your mind has already decided; before knowing, before experiencing, you have already decided what the truth is. This I call insincere, dishonest. And once you accept something negatively or positively, it is a capacity of the mind to create the hallucination of your belief.
In Mohammedans, in Christians, in Jews, you will not find children born who remember their past lives. But in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism almost every day, somewhere some child remembers his past lives. People have tried to see whether his remembrance has any facts behind it or if it is just imagination. And so many cases have been found in which the facts were clearly in support of it.
In India it happens almost every day, in one place, in another place, there is a child who remembers. And no Hindu, no Buddhist, no Jaina is really going to inquire into it, because they are afraid their theory may prove wrong. But you cannot do that in a Christian country, in a Jewish community, in a Mohammedan land, because they have accepted that this kind of thing is absolutely unreal.
As far as I am concerned, reincarnation is a reality. It is my own experience.
But what is truth to me becomes theory to you. And I don’t want my truth
to be your theory. That’s why I said: I don’t deal in theories, in beliefs. My profession is truth.

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