Reincarnation

About this book

Why do some people seem to arrive in the world with extraordinary talents, fears or unequal circumstances? Swami Abhedananda uses those questions to introduce the Hindu doctrine of rebirth.

His lectures bring Vedantic philosophy into conversation with Western debates about heredity, memory and the survival of consciousness. He argues for the continuity of the soul through many lives, sometimes using examples whose historical and philosophical foundations are uncertain. The book is also a record of how an Indian religious teacher explained a familiar tradition to an English-speaking audience.