What is it called...?

Question

What is the belief in past-lives called? and what exactly does this belief involve? ..do you believe in this?

Answer 1

Reincarnation is a componant part of the Vedic religion, 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.

Reincarnation is supported by many well known texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the wisdom of the Buddah, however it is largely rejected in Western religious thought, which has a preference for a faith only system of salvation that abdicates responsibility for evil onto a personality known as the devil and responsibility for sin to be absorbed by the victim of an act of barbaric murder 2000 years ago.

Answer 2

Reincarnation, although it is a major part of several World religions including many varieties of Hinduism and Buddhism, not to mention most varieties of Wicca and quite a few Pagan Traditions, as well as parts of New Age belief-systems.....

There is a wide variation in what is involved.
Basically, reincarnation posits that we have all lived before and will live again, and with each life we can learn lessons and imprint the memories of them not into our minds, which like our bodies die and we get new ones in our next life, but in our spirits which go from one life to another the way that you or I can go from one house to another..

Hindu-s, somewhat in keeping with their caste system, believe that those who live 'virtuous' lives are reborn into higher caste or richer families, and they call this the 'wheel of life'.

Buddhists tend to believe that every position on the wheel of life is equally disturbing, and so they live lifes aimed at 'getting off the wheel', to stop reincarnating altogether.

Some of those who believe in reincarnation believe that spirits can live as insects one life, animals another, humans another, dragons another, boddhisatvas another, etc....

I believe in the latter, though I do not believe that living as a human is some how 'more worthy' than living as an animal or an insect.....

Answer 3

You are talking about the trans-migration of souls, commonly known as "reincarnation". It is a Buddhist philosophy, similiar to spiritual recycling: everybody on earth gets countless chances to get life "right" before the world ends. Those who do (and they are few) are finally released from the cycle of birth-death-rebirth, and their spirits are reunited with "Brahaman" or the "all soul" (ie God).

No. I do not believe in the transmigration of souls. We each get one chance in this life, no extra "gimmies", no being re-born as a moose or a monkey or a gnat. Christ teaches that each of us is an individual of eternal worth to the Father, not just another "try" for a wandering spirit.

Answer 4

Reincarnation? I am not sure. I have seen TV programs about past life regression. The results are remarkable however how can one be sure if these are real past lives or just stored memory from present life experiences whether lived, heard of or read.

Answer 5

it is generally a Buddhist belief that we would reincarnate until we are spiritually enlightened enough to reach Nirvana which is a state of perfection thus ending our lives and ceasing to suffer ...
coming to a stop

Answer 6

It's called, "I think I'll have another hit of this here bong!"
There is no such thing as infinite regression, as past lives would indicate, otherwise we would never be here at this moment! Heavy.

Answer 7

I dont know and no. I believe in God but think thats just bull because if you die and come back as someone different everytime then who is the real you? If you really think about it deeply, youll find that its stupid and impossible. lol

Answer 8

reincarnation. involves the soul being "reincarnated" into different bodies, the human soul is immortal, and no, i don't believe in it.

Answer 9

reincarnation and No I dont believe it

Answer 10

recarnation