Reincarnation is also a fundamental tenant of the universe – very much like free-will, Law of Karma, Adi Para Sakthi and the other 3 types of energy, Time, Space, Panchabhootas (mass related), Andakaranas (inner faculties), Soul etc.,

Reincarnation is the process by which the accumulated/unspent fruits of action(sometimes in thoughts/sometimes in action), called as Karma, in a particular birth, push the soul, at the current death of the physical form, to take birth in a certain form matching with the capabilities that will help the soul expend its current load of Prarabdha Karma in the shortest time possible.

In the context of the Reincarnation, we should know the below points:

• Currently, the peak of the evolution is the human species and hence all the progressions through various reincarnations (species), ideally end up in a human form, after which, the soul is supposed to get higher and finer intelligence and enlightenment and start/progress-along the involution process finally leading to ‘Mukthi’ or the ultimate liberation.

   

• A human life can be considered as well lived, even if he/she is not able to ascend to heavens (!), and he/she is able to be born as a human again in his/her next birth!

   

  Please consider the following dialogue that supposedly happened in the past between a Sangam poet (Avvaiyar) and Lord Murugan – a Tamil deity:

  Lord Murugan Asks:  Avvaiyare, what is rare?

  Avvaiyar: Rare it is! Rare it is! To be born a human is most venerable; even more revered is to be born as a human without a hump on the back, blindness, deafness or sickness. Also rare is to have the free will to seek knowledge, to learn and to have the ability to do charity/help others.

   

• There is the ‘Path of Ascendence’, which holds those intelligent beings including certain animals, birds, marine-animals and plants (using both our spiritual/scientific intelligence, we need to investigate more to get this list) which are likely to be born into a human form upon a well lived life.

   

• There is this ‘Path of Descendance’, which holds those beings that can naturally accept a soul that was previously in the human form. Such human forms might have lived a sub-optimal life, including excessive indulgences in the basic activities (food, sleep, sex) or a life full of violence and bad karmas. These species in the ‘Path of Descendance’ might be thriving with those activities that was done excessively by the departed human soul. The ‘Law of Karma’ may think that the departed sub-optimal human soul neither has learnt its lesson nor is content with whatever was done excessively and hence it de-promotes the soul and forces it into a species where the overindulgences can be experienced to the point of saturation. At the point of saturation, it takes the next in line higher birth in a higher form!

   

• Animals/Birds/Plants/Marine species that die as food to other life forms take a higher form of birth in its next life. Ideally those species that become non-vegetarian foods should be located neither from the ‘Path of Ascendance’ nor from the ‘Path of Descendance’. Humans- especially those who are non-vegetarian should focus on knowing the traits of those animals/birds/marine-animals before deciding to consume them. Such animals/birds/marine-animals that are butchered for food should be given all decent levels of living experiences up until its final moments. I strongly de-test any mechanized/automated execution methods for these butchered species.

   

• Sometimes, due to divine intervention or by accidents, or by the way of experiencing deaths, a lower ranked species can skip rank and hierarchy and take the form of a higher species. Similarly, due to divine curse, or by accidents or by the way of living and accumulating bad karma, a higher ranked species can skip rank and hierarchy and take the form of a lower species. It is very much like a deadly game of ‘Snakes and Ladders’! I always emphasize that the ‘Law of Karma’ is brutal in dispensing justice! It may not be a fairy tale indeed if a man becomes a frog or vice-versa!

   

• If the humans, as a species, out of arrogance coming from their superior status, continues with their exploitation of this planet with gross disregard to the other species and/or do not take care of their over-indulgences and overflowing bad karmas (individual and group), the divine energy aided amply by Law of Karma may eventually downgrade their apex status. Thus, instead of progression the human species will wake up in the path of regression and decline. (We should not forget our hunter gatherer fore-fathers!). At the same time, some other marine or land or sky species may take lead amply aided by the divine energy and ‘Law of Karma’! Not knowing certain things is different from knowing and continuing with the same!

   

• Certain higher and finer souls including the protagonist takes birth again and again to restore justice and truth. These wars could have been or is still being fought in the physical (evolution) and mental(involution) realms. To prove a point and to strengthen the ‘Law of Karma’, these higher and finer souls will go through forced births including being born in lower order of species, experiencing the worst travails of life and still prevailing as a noble existence.  Sometimes, even if they are born in the higher species, they may be forced to be born with impaired mental and physical capabilities. But, despite grave odds and travails, they will prove their noble worth eventually and thus strengthen the 'Law of Karma'. In all their, avatars or reincarnations, these higher and finer souls will be seen in pursuit-of-excellence! If the protagonist and his team win, every body in the universe wins and hence the divine energy will be in a state of bliss, mercy and effulgence!

   

• Till the antagonist is fully vanquished, certain vile and diabolic souls take birth again and again to turn the universal order to chaos and mayhem-, in both the physical (evolution) and mental(involution) realms. Sometimes, these vile and diabolic souls may be escaping the ‘Law of karma’ only because of any remaining ICCHA SAKTHI possessed by the antagonist and his team. Nevertheless, eventually the ‘Law of Karma’ catches up! These demonic forces is always keen to change how the 'Law of Karma' evaluates us. They want the 'Law of Karma' to accept their way of life as the right way of life! I shiver to think what if that happens - a universe filled with bloodlust, violence and gore with scant or no regards to the females in general and no place/safety/honor or a decent status for a human female in specific! If the antagonist and his team win, only those with power (self or through command), wealth and status will be apparently in control and most of the rest of the universe will be in gloom and despair and thus the state of the divine energy will be disturbed, and in disparity and darkness!

  
  

• In such a state of darkness, rather than species' being in pursuit of excellence, we may witness overindulgences in activities considered as giving extreme pleasures - including and not limited to the basic activities (food, sleep and sex).

  Again these basic activities take on distorted and diabolic forms such as -

  Food -> increased non-vegetarianism, rise of cannibalism, interest in tamasic consumptions etc.,

  Sleep -> sleep depravations, drug induced intoxications, rise in alcohol consumption etc.,

  Sex - orgies and all other unacceptable forms of sexual activities such as sadomasochism.

  Unacceptable combinations of any of the above 2 or all 3 or its derivatives may surface leading to loss of faith in the goodness of the universe.

  
  

• But I strongly believe that with all the trials and tribulations of noble souls of this universe, the 'Law of Karma' has taken a clear and decisive stand to support the right dharma and hence I also believe that the wheels of the 'Law of Karma' is slowly grinding the ICCHA SAKTHI or any other forms of sakthi seen supporting the antagonist and his/her teams, to dust!

References:

https://sudharmaa.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/sudharma-page-10-enable/

Hari Om!