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What is incarnation in Hinduism?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

do you mean reincarnation? if so it is called samsara (the life cycles)

Incarnation is the appearance of a God or Goddess, or a great person, in a new form, mostly but not necessarily as a human. For common men and women, the word used is re-birth.

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