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What is reincarnation?
Some people believe that after we die, that we are reincarnated -which means that our souls are born again into another body. Thereare diverse theories regarding reincarnation…. Some of those viewsare: *People who believe in reincarnation believe that after they dietheir souls go into another body and live another life. In somevalue systems they live as different types of creatures. Hinduismhas as a tenet that if a person has a good karma he will go to ahigher form of life until he gets out of the reincarnation cyclebut if he has a bad karma, that is, if the sum total of his deedsstacks up on the bad side, he will come back as some lower form oflife, a frog, for instance. *In order to grow up to be like our creator, we have to gainunderstanding and control of all 144,000 ways of thinking availableto us. To think that this can be done in just one lifetime issomething I have come to see as a foolish idea, given the amount oftime it has taken me to learn about only some of these. This is whyre-incarnation is necessary. It allows us to continue our learningwhich is our only reason for being here to start with. Theory 2 You go to heaven they reject you and then you got to hell and theyreject you so you end up back on earth. if it is reincarnation, the meaning is life after death (rebirth) REINCARNATION: 'Reincarnation' is one of the most misunderstoodterms in Hinduism. 1. REINCARNATION AS A HINDU BELIEF: Reincarnation is entryof the soul of a dead person into the body of a human being or ananimal, making the soul live again. It is Karma that makes us to reincarnate repeatedly. Good deeds (good Karma) enables us to be born with a higher Varnaand bad deeds (bad Karma) make us to be born with a lower Varna. Moksha means putting an end to this unending cycles ofReincarnation. 2. REINCARNATION ACCORDING TO BRAHMAJNANA: Reincarnation according to Brahmajnana is the transformation of anactivity every time it is repeated, making the activity inefficientand unpredictable. Karma is fluctuations in facilitating/ retarding forces ofactivities that causes transformation of the activity every time itis repeated. Moksha is the abolition of fluctuations in facilitating/ retardingforces of activities. 3. REINCARNATION AND THE VEDAS: Consider the Rigveda mantra 1.10. 14 - 8 O Spirit of the dead! Go to the highest heaven and meet with Yamaand your ancestors. Carry with you only the good Karmas leaving behind the bad. Seek abody and a new home (reincarnate), and a life of glory. Yama is not the Hindu god of death. He is god of compulsion. He isthe most powerful Hindu god and therefore, activities executed withYama force often become dead (as a safety measure, get abolishedautomatically). Such dead actions, 1. May get abolished irreversibly (go to hell) 2. May get transformed into dreams (go to heaven - to god Indra/god of dreaming) and recycled. Such recycling is what we callReincarnation. Fluctuations in facilitating/ retarding forces of actions (Karma)is the main cause of such abolition. Since both Yama and Indra are extremely difficult to use, now theyare supposed to play a role after our death only. Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept thatthe soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in anew body. (MORE)
