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Reincanation is a belief and not an absolute fact. When we die it is the end of our soul and this is the absolute fact.

Purpose of a Belief:

At the dawn of civilization Self-control was banned and was replaced with divine, social and legal controls. Self-control was banned because it gave the members the ability to do a socially unnacceptble thing in an acceptable or undetectable way and it was not possible to monitor the society always.

Since we have no self-control we don't have direct control over our life. We have to use divine control, which is indirect control. This control is not compatible with reasoning.

Reincarnation:

Reincarantion is defined as the entry of the soul of a dead person into the body of a newborn.

Purpose of belief in reincarnation:

The belief in reincarnation produces an indirect benifit. When our life is devastated completely we become helpless. Belief in reincarnation helps us to discard the devastated way of life and restart a new way of life. The 'I' of the previous way would continue unaffected but the Self would get changed because we would be having a new refernce state.

Our starting of a new way of life is exactly like Vishnu's reincarnation whenever Adharma dominates. Every time he would come in a new incarnation to save Dharma.

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