PDF - Swami Vivekananda

Religion op The Twentieth Centurysouls as we call them, but they become theprincipal channels through which the germsof life manufacture gross physical bodies andmanifest those powers which are alreadylatent in them. This truth of science hasdestroyed the foundation of the old belief thatthe germs of life or individual souls werecreated fresh at the time of the birth of a childby an extra-cosmic Being. Moreover, byproving the indestructibility of the germ oflife and of the life-force, the problem of birthanddeath has been brought at the door of thetruth of pre-existence and of continuity ofexistence after death.To-daywe know that we can never die, orcan never be destroyed or absolutelyannihilated: but that there will be other manifestationsso long as the germs of life will continueto exist. This leads us to the theory ofrebirth or re-incarnation.The theory of re-incarnation, again, makesthe germs of life or individual souls act as free12