Most people know what reincarnation is, and many believe in rebirth or reincarnation of the soul, but do not accept that a person can go into lower forms of life, after a human. Is it really possible for a person to take on an animal body form after a human?
In fact, a person after reincarnation may indeed take on a lower form, such as an animal, plant, or mineral. In knowledge based on the teachings of great spiritual teachers and ancient Vedic texts, it is clearly shown that a person, if his level of consciousness corresponds to the level of an animal, acquires an animal form of a body, despite the fact that he had a human body.
Let us consider the main reason for reincarnation in this material life. Why does personality reincarnate? The living entity is endowed with material language - this is the result of the desire to taste. There are ears, this is the result of the desire to hear. There is a nose, the result of the desire to smell. There are genitals, the result of the desire for sex. Thus, there are various senses according to the desires of the being.
Therefore, the main reason for obtaining a material body is that a person has desires associated with matter. And in this world we see all kinds of bodies. A dog has a tongue and a man we have a tongue. A pig has a nose and a man has a nose. Different living entities have different types of bodies.
If you look at these all kinds of beings in the world, it will become obvious that material nature gives living beings all kinds of combinations, and an almost unlimited number of types of instruments with which one can enjoy.
The type of nose, tongue, or other sense organ that we have is determined by our type of thinking, our desires, which we have in our previous karma, and our karmic reactions.
If the person now has a human form, but his consciousness is focused on the level of the animal, namely, the animal is only interested in food, sleep, sexual pleasure and defense or struggle. When a person cares only about these interests, then his consciousness is at the lowest, animal level. At the subtle level, this will be the determining factor in the formation of the next type of physical body.
Those who deny this and say that in the course of reincarnation we cannot acquire a lower form of life after human, they base their ideas on personal experience, which is not confirmed by anything. Such people are not guided by spiritual authorities and ancient scriptures.
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The Srimad-Bhagavatam contains the wonderful story of Jada Bharata, who, after being reincarnated, changed his human body and received the body of a deer. Bharata was forced to live life in a lower form in order to return to human form again.
Another point that confirms the presence of involution in the process of reincarnation is associated with certain laws that we cannot get around. The basic law of the human form of life is responsibility. Animals, by their very nature, cannot choose to be responsible or not; they are instinctively forced to comply with the duties assigned to them. For this reason, any actions in animal life forms do not create karmic consequences in the future. For the lower forms, nature arranges so that the personality automatically evolves towards an intelligent form of life - human, but when it receives it, the moment comes when the responsibility of the personality, its free will comes into force. Thus, animals are constantly evolving to a higher body type.
But the human form of life differs from the animal in that a person always has a choice of responsibility for his actions. We are responsible for our actions, which is why there is a karmic system in the human form and the ability to descend into more primitive types of bodies.