Suppose we live in Barcelona. We want to have a very big business and we have not been able to have it. So whatever little money we have, we will go to some other country and try to establish a business there. So content and intent by individual desires, the astral body keeps moving, until it establishes itself in a certain body. Here it is born as a human being, fulfils its desires and keeps on fulfilling them until the knowledge comes to him. This knowledge is that desires cannot be fulfilled and we have to stop somewhere. Then we begin to lead a spiritual life, minimize our desires, do selfless work, purify our souls, eliminate passions and the astral body becomes free from desires.
Then he has another reincarnation. Right from the very birth he has a different way of thinking, he thinks like a monk or like a sannyasin, he does not care for money, nor for pleasure and is completely different from everybody. He has become partly liberated, but not completely. Then one day, he has a vision of God, and he thinks that God’s love is final. Then he realizes everything is as it is; not as it appears to be, but as it is, just as God has created it. Then his soul is illumined, and there is no more reincarnation for him. He is one with the supreme light and that is called final liberation, moksha, or nirvana. It has many names. This is a very simple philosophy of reincarnation.
September 1980, Barcelona, Spain