Transmigration and the alchemy of the soul

We all wonder, at some point of our life, about what our purpose in life is. For some of us, this becomes more pertinent as we grow older, when we learn to let go of our attachments and we become dispassionate about the material world. For others, it is is yet too difficult to let go off the material, and are still entrapped in the successes and failures of life.

Just like life is a journey and experience of it, our souls have to traverse a seemingly endless and repeatedly cyclical journey from one life to another, transmigrating from one body to another. This journey carries on, until we achieve the purity to qualify to be in union with the divine supreme.

For we are all fallen souls, that rebelled against the supreme being at the onset of his creation, and turned away from him. It is this original sin, that permeates down to every soul, that we have to cleanse ourselves of. And, thus, we have to go through the cycles of birth and rebirth to manifest the peerlessness to achieve oneness with the God-head again.

With each new life, we are made to forget our experiences of the past life at the conscious level, though our sub-consciousness operates on past memories. We start afresh, facing the tests, trials and tribulations of each new life armed with the strengths and weaknesses we inherit from past lives. These are the gifts that form our instincts, intelligence and intuition, and help us be morally pertinacious in dealing with the contests of each new life.

We are made to dabble in the material, even though our unconscious and eternal mission is a spiritual one. Through life, we pursue achievements and goals that benefit our material stature, forgetting the very purpose of our spiritual mission. It takes the awakened soul to realise that the material is only an illusion, primarily meant to test us. The true reality is beyond the four-dimensional prison that we are trapped within. The enemy is the illusion of the purported reality we find ourselves in. We must unveil this fake encumbrance and perform the feat of perceiving the truth, that which the divine oneness expects us to see.

While our youth is heated by our passions, as we grow older, it is time to grow dispassionate. For infancy, youth and old age are just a cycle to attain the maturity and wisdom out of one incarnation. If we fall prey to concupiscence, immorality, greed, impropriety and intransigence to God, we will become pernicious to our own selves and our soul’s mission, even though the material pleasures and windfalls of these acts may be many. In the same vein, the ultimate spiritual ascension involves a ladder that goes from one life-cycle to another, and we must be determined to earn spiritual brownie points with each life, so that we can ascend at every birth and achieve the final union.

How quickly we achieve that union, is how we forge a relationship with our conscience in one life or each lifetime.

In the spiritual journey, as well as in life, there is infancy, youth and maturity. On the creationary time-scale, young souls emerge from the periphery of a circle to make their way to the centre – the divine oneness. As we progress towards the centre, we become more mature and older, and it depends on our moral propriety on how swiftly we reach the centre. This is the ascension we are called on to undertake.

In one lifetime, younger souls are vested with a freer will. They have more options and possibilities in life, they are more active on the material plane and they have a higher propensity to attain material success. Older souls have a lesser degree of free will, and are more constrained by their environments and circumstances.

Likewise, in transmigration, or the cycle of rebirth, younger souls, that have lesser baggage to carry, are vested with a freer will to choose the circumstances, environments, and encumbrances they are born into. They have wider choices to decide how easy or difficult they want their lives to be, at the onset of each birth.

As the soul becomes older, God’s will becomes more pervasive, and individual options to decide on what or how life is meant to be at each reincarnation, begin to diminish. Older souls are more constrained, they have a heavier burden to carry.

Then there are descended souls, those that, with every lifetime, have fallen prey to the entrapments of the material world. Those that, in previous lives, have abused power and fortune, committed crimes, and caused others to suffer. These seemingly old souls, have to start afresh again, and are imposed with still heavier burdens.

Finally, there are enlightened souls, that step into the material world on behalf of God to fast-track the awakening of the entire humanity. They are shepherds to guide and mentor other souls. And, perhaps, have a one-time mission in the material sphere.

Every soul, waylaid in his spiritual journey by the tempests of material entrapments, would do well to pass the test by listening to the silently screaming voice of conscience and by being opportunistic in availing of the gifts of the sub- conscious. To swerve around these tempests, one must burn the pursuits of the ego to char, and transmute oneself into the pure flame of spirit. That is the prime alchemical objective of spiritual evolution…until we find the ecstasy of oneness with the supreme being.