Someone known to the Holy Cow raised an interesting question a while ago.
He asked, "If the soul never dies, is it also never born? Is the number of souls constant, or ever increasing? Decrease is not a possibility since once born, it is immortal"
"Good question", said the Holy Cow, and went on, "I don't think either birth or death can be used literally while talking about the soul. It never dies, but changes form, and each new form is like a new birth.
Except that it isn't really, and you keep carrying forth your baggage from one to the next (Ref: Notion of Karma)
Except that it isn't really, and you keep carrying forth your baggage from one to the next (Ref: Notion of Karma)
Also, decrease should also be a possibility, or else where does moksha fit in? I mean, the lucky ones get freedom from this chakravyuh (unending cycle from which there is no way out) right?
If immortality (which involves cycles of birth and death) is a good thing, then is moksha, freedom from this unending cycle, undesirable?"
If moksha is desirable, then it would be better for the soul to just die and not be transformed over and over again, would it not?
