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Originally Posted by Markus74  Oh, so 'the Truth' cannot be plainly explained to the ordinary people? You have to be enlightened and in the inner circle? 
As for the field theory, I'm sure I know what it comes down to in the end ... Faith in the theory! 
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Let me ignore your flame-baiting and explain.
First, I never said "the Truth" as you wrongly imply. I said "truths". There is no single "Truth" in this universe.
Second, I can "explain" to you till the cows come home, but has it been your experience of truth or reality? No. Now how does one experience the reality of Brahman, or Existence? Through delving into the inner universe. The tools for that are meditation. I am not enlightened; however, I have experienced for myself, in my own inner conscious awareness, certain "truths" which can be corroborated by sublime works such as the Upanishads.
That is how one comes to the conclusion that the seers who realized the eternal wisdom of life in the Upanishads weren't hallucinating or delusional.
The Buddha said (I paraphrase) "Truth is not truth unless it becomes
your truth". Now if you go about telling a scientist to verify the laws of his speciality without use the tools of his/her trade, what do you think his response will be? Delving into human consciousness needs the tools of meditation.
Anyway, the essence of the Upanishads (
not religion) is the timeless wisdom that that
you are never born and you will never die. Your entire concept of being alive in a body in your waking state is not much different from the fanciful flights of imagination you experience in your dream. The only way to cognize this is through transcending body and mind in deep meditation to open a different dimension of awareness in your consciousness which illustrates to you that you have been "dreaming" that you exist as this body and mind.
But if that is too difficult to grasp, and it
will be abstruse, because you have not experienced it as
your reality, let me express it in simpler terms:
Yes, "you" did choose to be in this particular incarnation. Note my use of quotation marks for the word you. That is because who or what is the
real you? Since the body and mind changes so much from birth, through adulthood, up until death, it is in such a state of flux that it would be erroneous to attribute the body or mind as being "you". The same goes for your intellect, and emotions etc. They too are in a similar state of flux, and cannot be the real "you".
What you refer to as "I", is actually your pure awareness, whether you believe it or not, recognize it or not. That awareness never dies. However, it does find new bodies for expression time and again. That is the play of consciousness. It loves to experience the variety inherent in the physical universe as expressed through different life-forms. So, essentially, you are pure awareness seeking to
experience itself through the body and mind.
So the entity that makes a "choice" to reincarnate, in a certain environment, to certain parents, did not "think" and "decide", "oh I am going to be born rich and into a royal family", or "oh, I am going to choose to be born to starving mother in drought stricken Africa". That's now how it happens. Because you erroneously think that your cognitive mind is all that there is to "intention", everything appears absurd. What causes your
atman to assume a particular body is dictated by the embedded impressions of subtle desire persisting and enveloping it since the time energy "chose" to coalesce into gross matter.
I could go on, but that is the gist of the process, which as I remarked is far too complex (beyond even my own mind) to describe in words with their inherent limitations.