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REBIRTHEXPLAINED
 by
V. F. Gunaratna
Buddhist Publication SocietyKandy • Sri Lanka
The Wheel Publication No. 167/168/169
First Edition 1971,Second Impression 1980Copyright © 1980 by Buddhist Publication SocietyBPS Online Edition © (2008)Digital Transcription Source: BPS Transcription ProjectFor free distribution. This work may be republished, reformatted, reprinted and redistributed in any medium. However, any such republication and redistribution is to be made available to the public on a free and unrestricted basis, and translations and other derivative works are to be clearly marked as such.
 
Contents
Foreword...........................................................................................................................................3I. The Law of Change.......................................................................................................................4II. The Laws Of Becoming And Continuity..................................................................................6III. The Law of Action and Reaction..............................................................................................8IV. The Law of Attraction.............................................................................................................10V. Mind and the Law of Change..................................................................................................13VI. The Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind................................................................16VII. Thoughts, Thought-Processes, and Thought-Moments.....................................................19VIII. How A Normal Thought-Process Works...........................................................................21IX. How a Thought-Process at Death Works..............................................................................25X. How a Thought-Process at Birth Works.................................................................................32XI. The Biological Explanation of Birth and the Buddhist Explanation..................................34XII. Recall of Past Lives through Hypnosis................................................................................38XIII. Spontaneous Recall of Past Lives........................................................................................40XIV. Some Investigated Cases of Rebirth....................................................................................41XV. Some Questions and Answers..............................................................................................452
 
Foreword
by The Venerable Nārada Mahāthera
The Buddhist doctrine of rebirth, which should be differentiated from the Hindu view of reincarnation, is the favourite subject of Mr. V. F. Gunaratna, the learned writer of this small but profound treatise.As an ideal and practising Buddhist he writes and talks on this important subject with firm conviction.He has explained in these few pages very clearly almost all the intricate points connected with the subject.In this book the writer solves all difficult problems from a Buddhist standpoint and satisfactorily answers many other relevant questions.
Nārada
Vajirārāma,Bambalapitiya,Colombo 5,Sri Lanka.29
th
 April, 1970.3

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