Question: You mean a person can be on earth for six thousand years?

Sri Chinmoy: When the creation starts from the mineral life, the stone life, then naturally the soul has to go through many incarnations. Each time the soul comes into life, into the physical or the earth-consciousness, it is an incarnation. The moment it comes into the earth-consciousness and accepts the physical, it is an incarnation.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Secrets of the inner world, Agni Press, 1980
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