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　　Some discoveries of modern spirituals also tend to prove the existence of a future birth.

　　The Cause Of This Rebirth Process-The Wheel Of Life

　　In short, Kamma, which is rooted in Ignorance, is the cause of birth and death. As long as this Kammic force survives there is rebirth. This process of becoming is fully explained in the Paticca Samuppada - Dependent Arising or Dependent Origination.

　　It should be understood that Paticca Samuppada is only a discourse on Samsara or the process of birth and death and not a theory of the evolution of the world from primordial matter. It deals with the cause of rebirth and suffering, but it does not attempt to show the absolute origin of life.

　　Ignorance - Avijja, of the Four Noble Truths is the first link or cause of the wheel of life. It clouds all right understanding.

　　Dependent on ignorance arises volitional activities (Sankhárá).

　　Moral and immoral activities, whether good or bad, which are rooted in ignorance, tend to prolong wandering in Samsara.

　　Nevertheless, good actions are essential to get rid of the ills of this ocean of life.

　　Dependent on Volitional Activities arises Relinking Consciousness - Vinnana. This links the past with the present.

　　Simultaneous with the arising of Re-linking Consciousness there come into being Mind and Matter - Nama and Rupa.

　　The Six Senses - Salayatana, are the inevitable consequences of Mind and Matter. Because of the Six Senses Contact - Phassa, sets in.

　　Contact leads to Sensations - vedana,

　　Dependent on Sensations arises Craving - Tanha.

　　Craving produces Attachment - Upadana.

　　Attachment conditions Kamma - Bhava, which in its turn determines future Birth - Jati.

　　Old Age and Death - Jara-Marana are the inevitable consequences of birth.

　　If, on account of a cause, an effect comes to be, then if the cause ceases, the effect also must cease. The complete cessation of Ignorance leads to the cessation of birth and death.

　　The above process of cause and effect continues ad infinitum. The beginning of this process cannot be determined, as it is impossible to say whence this life-flux was encompassed by ignorance. But when this ignorance is turned into knowledge and the life-flux is transmuted to Nibbána Dhatu, then the end of the life process or Samsara comes about.

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