The Soul Journey

A common question asked by many is - *"Do we go back to the soul world, the
incorporeal world (non-physical world), the home of all souls, when we die?"
* When we understand and experience ourselves as souls, as un-destroyable,
eternal beings, we realize that death is only a physical phenomenon.   At
the death of the body, the soul enters another physical costume and a new
chapter in its journey of life begins.    Depending on the soul's 'karma'
performed through the body, its new birth is likely to be somewhere in the
company of those souls with whom it has been close in previous births.  It
is quite a paradox that when a soul leaves a body, the relations which it
has left, mourn over the loss of their loved one, and the new relations
which it gets attached to celebrate with happiness, over an addition of a
new-born entrant in their family.

*The soul only leaves the home (the soul world) once in a unique, personal
journey. This journey of the soul is not linear i.e. a straight line, with a
beginning and an end. But, on the other hand, it is cyclic i.e. a circle,
with neither a beginning, nor an end - although both leaving the soul world
and going back to the soul world happen once each in every cycle. *  This
soul journey can be compared to actors who leave home to go to the theatre
to play their parts.   They change costumes between scenes - they don't
return home at the end of each scene, they return home when the play is
finished, only to return the next day to repeat their part in the play. Each
birth of the soul that it takes can be compared to a new scene of the play,
which consists of many different scenes.