Do you believe in reincarnation?

Question

And can you remember your past lives?

Answer 1

I do. But few people can remember their past lives. And Most of the cases where people claim to remember it are of those who died a violent untimely death.

Many have believed it through out ages. A partial list includes the Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Pythagoras, and Plato, Italy’s philosopher and poet of the Renaissance Giordano Bruno , Voltaire.

John Masefield (1878-1967) poet laureate has been explicit in his poem A Creed:

"I hold when a person dies
His soul returns again to earth;
Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise,
Another mother gives him birth.
With sturdier limbs and brighter brain
The old soul takes the road again.

Regarding Nawab Aalam's post:

There is a reason why one should not learn about concepts of Hindus from non Hindu sites. They twist and misrepresent facts about it.

Here is the actual explaination and theory.

Individual souls, or jivas, enter the world mysteriously . they make their way through the water (universe) until they break free into the limitless atmosphere of illumination (liberation). They begin as the souls of the simplest forms of life, but they do not vanish with the death of their original bodies.
In the Hindu view, spirit no one depends more on the body it inhabits that body depends on the clothes it wears or the house it lives in. When we outgrow a suit or find our house too cramped, we exchange these for roomier ones that offer our bodies freer play. Souls do the same.

" Worn-out garments Are shed by the body:
Worn-out bodies Are shed by the dweller. "

- (Bhagavad-Gita, II:22)


This process by which an individual jiva (soul) passes through a sequence of bodies is known as reincarnation or transmigration of the soul.

Hinduism believes that God, who is all-loving and merciful, does not punish or reward anyone. Every action of a person, in thought or deed, brings results, either good or bad, depending upon the moral quality of the action, in accordance with the adage, As you sow, so shall you reap. Moral consequences of all actions are conserved by Nature. For our present condition, we are ourselves responsible. We not blame God or the existing social order. Mahabharata says that there is no external judge who punishes us; our inner self is the judge.

na yaman yamah ity ahuh atma vai yama ucyate
atma samyamito yena yamas tasya karoti kim?

If a person lives a good life on earth, he or she will be born into a better life in the next incarnation.

Reincarnation is interlinked with karma: successive lives afford the requisite scope in which the law of karma operates. It is the natural way the soul evolves from immaturity to spiritual illumination. When all the lessons are worked out and all the lessons of life are learnt, one attains enlightenment and moksha (liberation). This means you will exist, but will no longer be pulled back to be born in a physical body.

Nonetheless, one is not condemned to stay in this cycle of repeated birth and death forever. There is a way out. In the human form one can attain the knowledge of spiritual realization and attain release from Samsara. This is why every religious process in the world encourages people not to hanker for sensual enjoyments which bind them to this world but to look forwards what is spiritual and gives eternal freedom from Samsara.

Moksha (Freedom or Salvation)

Moksha means freedom from the cycle of birth and death. The ultimate goal of Hindu religious life is to attain freedom from the cycle of birth and death, or union with God. This union is achieved through true knowledge (jnana), devotion (bhakti), or right work (karma). Purity, self-control, truthfulness, non-violence, and compassion toward all forms of life are the necessary prerequisites for any spiritual path in Hinduism. There is no concept of Savior. You have to free yourself by your own effort. No savior can help you achieve God realization without your personal effort.

Nirwana is Buddhist concept . Not exactly Vedic.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Reincarnation.

Definition: The belief that one is reborn in one or more successive existences, which may be human or animal. Usually it is an intangible “soul” that is believed to be reborn in another body. Not a Bible teaching.

Does a strange feeling of being familiar with entirely new acquaintances and places prove reincarnation to be a fact?

Have you ever mistaken one man or woman who is alive for another who is also now living? Many have had that experience. Why? Because some people have similar mannerisms or may even look almost identical. So the feeling that you know a person even though you never met him before really does not prove that you were acquainted with him in a former life, does it?
Why might a house or a town seem familiar to you if you have never been there before? Is it because you lived there during a former life? Many houses are built according to similar designs. Furniture used in cities far apart may be produced from similar patterns. And is it not true that the scenery in some widely separated places looks very much alike? So, without resorting to reincarnation, your feeling of familiarity is quite understandable.

Do recollections of life at another time in another place, as drawn out under hypnosis, prove reincarnation?

Under hypnosis much information stored in the brain can be drawn out. Hypnotists tap the subconscious memory. But how did those memories get there? Perhaps you read a book, saw a motion picture, or learned about certain people on television. If you put yourself in the place of the people about whom you were learning, it might have made a vivid impression, almost as if the experience were your own. What you actually did may have been so long ago that you have forgotten it, but under hypnosis the experience may be recalled as if you were remembering “another life.” Yet, if that were true, would not everyone have such memories? But not everyone does. It is noteworthy that an increasing number of state supreme courts in the United States do not accept hypnotically induced testimony. In 1980 the Minnesota Supreme Court declared that “the best expert testimony indicates that no expert can determine whether memory retrieved by hypnosis, or any part of that memory, is truth, falsehood, or confabulation—a filling of gaps with fantasy. Such results are not scientifically reliable as accurate.” (State v. Mack, 292 N.W.2d 764) The influence of suggestions made by the hypnotist to the one hypnotized is a factor in this unreliability.

Does the Bible contain evidence of belief in reincarnation?

Eccl. 3:19: “There is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies.” (As in the case of humans, nothing survives at the death of an animal. There is nothing that can experience rebirth in another body.)

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” (It is not into another body but into Sheol, the common grave of mankind, that the dead go.)

How much of a difference is there between reincarnation and the hope held out in the Bible?

Reincarnation: According to this belief, when a person dies, the soul, the “real self,” passes on to a better existence if the individual has lived a good and proper life, but possibly to existence as an animal if his record has been more bad than good. Each rebirth, it is believed, brings the individual back into this same system of things, where he will face further suffering and eventual death. The cycles of rebirth are viewed as virtually endless. Is such a future really what awaits you? Some believe that the only way of escape is by extinguishing all desire for things pleasing to the senses. To what do they escape? To what some describe as unconscious life.

Bible: According to the Bible, the soul is the complete person. Even though a person may have done bad things in the past, if he repents and changes his ways, Jehovah God will forgive him. (Psalms 103:12, 13.) When a person dies, nothing survives. Death is like a deep, dreamless sleep. There will be a resurrection of the dead. This is not a reincarnation but a bringing back to life of the same personality. (Acts 24:15) For most people, the resurrection will be to life on earth. It will take place after God brings the present wicked system to its end. Sickness, suffering, even the necessity to die, will become things of the past. (Daniel 2:44; Revelation 21:3, 4) Does such a hope sound like something about which you would like to learn more, to examine the reasons for confidence in it?

If you would like further information or a free home Bible study, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 4

Yes, I do believe in reincarnation. Check out the book "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Dr. Brian Weiss.

Blessings )O(

Answer 5

You look to key onto one sentence and obsess over it, my chum. answer: no longer all Jews perception in reincarnation. some have self assurance the soul reincarnates until eventually one is righteous adequate to connect G-d while loss of life. some have self assurance the soul reincarnates until eventually the Messiah/Messianic Age comes around. some don't think in reincarnation in any respect (greater of the common perception).

Answer 6

Yes ! It is said in "Bhagavadgitha " that -

"Jathasyahi dhruvo mruthyhu - dhruvam janma mruthasyaha
Tasmath parihararthe - nathvam sochi tumarhasi "

Which means " It is made sure to die for all the living beings who have taken birth on this mortal world . And it is that much sure that one has to take birth again .So , it is not wise to be sad or weep for this compulsary process of taking birth and death ".

These are words of LORD KRISHA the supreme personality of godhead. You will understand more who is LORD KRISHA and what is BHAGAVADGITHA by visiting the following sites.

Answer 7

Yes and Yes (to a point) I have done past life meditation. I want to find a hynotist that specializes in past life regression.

Answer 8

no i donot believe in reincarnation.this theory was developed in hinduism.according to this theory god reborn again and again in human or animal or any other form to save the world from disaster.but this theory failed to answer of the questions
1 is god so helpless as a god to save the world from disaster that he has to take another form
2 if god cannot perform a duty like a god but can do in form of human being so human being is powerfull than god.
3 if god can or person reborn again then what is need of this?
4.according to theory of nirvana a person has to take different birth till getting salvation . he has to take birth again and again for his sin.but question is that why he has to born first time?and what sin he has committed.
5 a person cannot born and remeber the past,but it is a trick of devil to derail from the right path of god by showing some natural power in human being.a devil life is thousand and thousand years and some the whole world life like great devil-iblees.

Answer 9

Yes and Yes

Answer 10

Yes, and I've had certain dreams all my life about WWII that makes me think I was around back then.