The present experience of birth, life, death and the world itself is an illusion, therefore, the rebirth, and reincarnation are bound to be an illusion.+

People want to know about rebirths. Theosophy speaks of 50 to thousands-year intervals between death and rebirth. But all these are imaginations based on the false Self. There is no relation between the standard of measurement of one state of consciousness and another. 

All such measurements are hypothetical. It must be distinctly understood that it is not the Soul that comes and goes, but the three states which appear and disappear. The three states are merely an illusion from the standpoint of the formless witness which is the Soul, the Self.

Only in ignorance birth, life, death, and the world in which birth and death take place is a reality.  The Soul, which is unborn is never born. 

The one which is born, lives, and dies in the world is not the 'Self'. The Self is the Soul, which is unborn and eternal.  

Those who believe that the world as reality believe in rebirth.  When the Soul is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence then the birth, life, death, and the world, which exist only in the domain of form, time, and space can be real. 

The religious and yogic paths are based on the birth entity and believe in rebirth and reincarnation because they base themselves on the birth entity whereas the Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless. It is birthless and deathless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  The Advaitic wisdom leads to non-dualistic or Advaitic Self-awareness.

If you are caught up with the idea of rebirth or reincarnation and rebirth as real then you are not qualified for Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Birth, life, and death happen within the dualistic illusion or Maya. Remember: the world itself is a dualistic illusion.   The present experience of birth, life, death, and the world itself is an illusion, therefore, rebirth, and reincarnation are bound to be an illusion.  

You are limited to form, time, and space. You are not the Self because you are bound by birth, life, death, and the world whereas the Soul, the  Self is limitless. After all, it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  

Till you think ‘I’ as the Self the Soul will remain in the cage of the dualistic illusion. The Soul, the ‘Self ‘is the fullness of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space.

The Self is birthless therefore it is deathless. The one which is born lives and dies within the world (waking) is not the Self.  

Remember:~

The idea of reincarnation or rebirth is based on the birth entity (waking entity or ego) which lives and dies within the illusory world (waking).  

The Self is the one that witnesses the coming and going of the dual (waking or dream) nondual (deep sleep) experiences. 

When the experience of birth, life, and death takes place in the illusion, then recantation also is part of the same illusion. 

The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. Wisdom dawns when the Soul, the Self, consciously remains awake in its formless nondual nature.   

When the substance and the witness of the three states are one in essence and that essence is consciousness. Then what value is there for the universe in, which the experience of birth, life death, and reincarnation happens? Even if you take reincarnation as reality, reincarnation happens within the world, which is an illusion, from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self.   

H. H. Dalai Lama said: ~  Buddhism need not be the best religion though it is the most scientific and religion and inquisitive. But Buddhism has no answer to certain questions like the existence of Atama (Soul) and rebirth.   Dali Lama said that as an individual he believes in rebirth as he had come across a few cases of rebirth.  Modern science, Dalai Lama hoped would unearth the mystery behind the rebirth. (In DH –dec-212009-Gulburga)

People who are caught up with the idea of reincarnation and rebirth theories are not qualified for Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because they accepted the duality as reality

People who believe in reincarnation and rebirth theories are unaware of the fact that their belief is based on the waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience. 

The waking entity itself is a false self within the false experience, it means the present experience of birth, life, death, and the world is a falsehood.  

Thus, whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a waking entity is bound to be falsehood because the Soul, the Self is birthless because it is formless and nondual. Therefore,  the rebirth and reincarnation theory based on the false Self is bound to be a falsehood. 

Accepting rebirth and reincarnation theory as reality is accepting the false self (waking entity or ego) as the real Self and false experience (waking) as reality. 

Self-realization is impossible if one accepts the present waking entity as the real Self because the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is a dream entity,  but the Self is a formless Soul that witnesses the coming and going of the three states. :~Santthosh Kumaar