death the Self leaves the body radiating out from the heart, if when you come to die you ascend through one of the thousand-petaled lotus nerves in the brain you shall attain immortality, if one passes through another nerve in the body you move on to on of the other planes of mortal existence, and remain subject to birth and death. After reading this I came to truly understand the essence of reincarnation, I had a somewhat different view on it. I hadnt ever considered the different planes of existence, it had never really occurred to me to question the realms of existence. Until, a few days ago I thought of life as only as the plane of mortals and the plane of the immortal. I was driving with a friend out to the beach, along the way I was thinking about it, and I realized that if I thought about Brahman as pure white light, and the different planes of existence being represented by the rainbow of colors that all blend together, but are still separate it made complete sense. The rainbow is simply made up of scattered white light that infinitely reflects and changes form, just as Brahman is moving and flowing in everything forever changing form. ...
