Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Singapore April 26, 1997
(Originally in English)

 Q: Master, we recently have commenced with cloning, and my son asked me: What happens to the soul if a human is cloned?

 M: That, you should ask the scientists. I don't clone people, so I don't know. [Laughter]

 I don't mess about with God's business. They are just trying to get the DNA going again, but they haven't been successful yet. We don't know what's going on. Later, after the cloning people are successful, you can ask the clones. [Master and audience laugh]

 It's just like having a twin, or a double, or an extra child by artificial insemination. And whoever's soul wants to inhabit that fleshly garment will do so. There are a lot of souls running around, and ghosts also. It depends on who wants to inhabit that body. And that will make a slight difference from the original personality. Sometimes, one body is inhabited by two or three different souls, or different characters. They can be ghosts or any disembodied spirits, or those who come together at the same time. And then they try to fight each other for one body, or try to live together. So that's why sometimes a person is funny. One day he is good; another day he is lousy, or has two lovers at the same time. If you have two lovers, beware! [Master and audience laugh] Maybe you are listening to two ghosts, not yourself.