Is there reincarnation after death?

Question

If there is reincarnation after death then how can those that have passed still be with you and watching over you?

Answer 1

God's ways are higher ways. Heaven has levels. The best explanation there is for this is astrophysicist Hugh Ross's explanation of dimensions. God transcends everything and so does the spiritual realm, though it intersect our own.

Those who have died however, are said to be asleep in paradise, knowing nothing until the resurrection, which is different than reincarnation.

Reincarnation holds that a spirit occupies a new and often very different body, such as that of an animal.

Resurrection holds that a new body is provided that is cleansed and free from imperfection, coming out of the remains of the old body.

Do you love someone? What about when you are a sleep, do you cease to love them?

Likewise a sleeping soul continues to love, and the loved ones continue to sense it.

Answer 2

Reincarnation is a componant part of Vedic knowledge, the only way to understand it, is to understand your real identity as an eternal spirit soul, rather then the material body. Vedic understanding must be learned in its entirity to gain knowledge of the science of reincarnation and release from the cycle of the repetition of birth and death.

With this in mind, there is no question that reincarnation is a reality, we, as individual spirit souls are reincarnating within these very bodies, the material body is composed of gross molecules and atomic particles,that are constantly changing, every seven years each cell is completely replaced, so the body we had seven years ago is different to the body we have now, this is reincarnation, even within this life.

At the end of this life when the gross material body is no longer operational, being simply a temporary biological machine, then the subtle material mind replays the events of one's life, those events in one's life that are most prominant propel the spirit soul, the real self, to the next destination, the basis for this to happen is by the activities that we perform and the desires that are most prominant, man proposes and God disposes.

If we live a spiritual life, with activities and desires to please the Supreme, then the original spiritual body is revived and we can return home, back to Godhead, however if the desires are more worldly then we will attain another material body either gross or subtle, perfectly suited to the mentality that we have developed whilst being in the human form of life, there are many living entities that remain in their subtle or astral forms, due to attachments to relatives and places during their last life, therefore the knowledge of the science of reincarnation is of paramount importance to understand.

The early Christian church also taught reincarnation, up untill the 6th century A.D., in 553 A D when the Roman empire started to collapse, the emperor Justinian at the 5th Ecumenical council at Constantinople removed and altered the teachings of Jesus to gain more social control over the uneducated masses, by establishing the "scare tactic" of a singular life, as anyone who opposed these types of alterations was considered a heretic, it is not difficult to understand how these gross misconceptions came to be accepted.

Fortunately we are now able to discuss real knowledge openly, without fear of an inquisition, aside from a shrinking group of "text book" fundamentalists and some who are afflicting by a covering of ignorance, the science of reincarnation is being accepted unopposed by many intelligent people.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 3

Here is conclusive authority from God himself speaking in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 2 Verse 13 .......

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.

Purport by HDG A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Since every living entity is an individual soul, each is changing his body every moment, manifesting sometimes as a child, sometimes as a youth, and sometimes as an old man. Yet the same spirit soul is there and does not undergo any change. This individual soul finally changes the body at death and transmigrates to another body; and is sure to have another body in the next birth, either material or spiritual.

Furthermore in verse 22 of the same Chapter.....

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

Purport by Srila Prabhupada

Change of body by the atomic individual soul is an accepted fact. Even the modern scientists who do not believe in the existence of the soul, but at the same time cannot explain the source of energy from the heart, have to accept continuous changes of body which appear from childhood to boyhood and from boyhood to youth and again from youth to old age. From old age, the change is transferred to another body. This has already been explained in a previous verse (2.13).

Answer 4

I'm going to answer you from the bible which says, "first death, then judgement". Also Paul said, "absent from the body, present with the Lord". Reincarnation doesn't make sense in a lot of areas but is wishful thinking on some's part. I don't know, who would want to come back as a camel or ant. Not me!

Answer 5

Reincarnation happens; however, it takes a long time. After you die, you are not immediately reincarnated, as you spend a very long time in the afterlife before being reincarnated.

Answer 6

The Christian world view does not believe in reincarnation. We are told by God that man dies once, and then the judgment. If you die believing in Christ, you have been granted a pardon for all sin through His offering of His own Life for yours, and you bypass judgment since it has already been paid.

Answer 7

they arent still with us or watching over us, they are awaiting in their graves, ( those that have died in Christ) for Christ return.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Answer 8

I believe in resurrection, not reincarnation...

Answer 9

Nope, the bible syas the dead knows nothing of the living.

Answer 10

steven g. , you're full of s h i t