REBIRTH Our identity is associated with our body. But actually body cells are dead and lost to a variable extent. Even our passions, emotions and thoughts are undergoing changes. But we remain the same individuals! Thus without denying our association with the changing existence, we can experience that we are changeless backdrop or background or substratum on which the changing bodies are born, grown and perished. This can be and may be verified. Rebirth of specific bodies or identities pertains to concurrent consciousness and memories. This is observed in case of certain historical figures such as Shripad Shrivallabh and Narasimha Saraswati. Others do not have the memory or consciousness to endorse rebirth. Rebirth is not a lame explanation for consoling or pacifying the suffering of people. It is not a theory merely born as a psychological tool. Consciousness is constant and the cycles of birth and rebirth continue on and within it! DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR