Does anyone believe in reincarnation?

Question

Any information on it?

Answer 1

Correct philosophical thinking guides man's intellect to the apprehension of a continuity from the past --- through the present --- to the endless future. The Spirit remaining the same, It gets seemingly conditioned by different body-equipments and comes to live through its self-ordained environments.

It is this conclusion of the Hindu philosophers that has given them the most satisfactory THEORY OF REINCARNATION. The most powerful opponents of this idea do not seem to have studiously followed their own scriptures. Christ Himself has, if not directly, at least indirectly, proclaimed this doctrine when He told His disciples: "John, the Baptist, was Elijah." Origen, the most learned of the Christian Fathers, has clearly declared: "Every man received a body for himself according to his deserts in former lives."

There was no great thinker in the past who had not, nor any in the present who has not accepted, expressly or tacitly, these logical conclusions about the DOCTRINE OF REINCARNATION. Buddha constantly made references to his previous births. Virgil and Ovid regarded the doctrine as perfectly self-evident. Josephus observed that the belief in reincarnation was widely accepted among the Jews of his age. Solomon's BOOK OF WISDOM says: "To be born in sound body with sound limbs is a reward of the virtues of the past lives."

And who does not remember the famous saying of the learned son of Islam who declared, "I died out of the stone and I became a plant; I died out of the plant and became an animal; I died out of the animal and became a man. Why then should I fear to die? When did I grow less by dying? I shall die out of man and shall become an angel!!"

In later times, this most intelligent philosophical belief has been accepted as a doctrine by the German philosophers Goethe, Fichte, Schelling and Lessing. Among the recent philosophers, Hume, Spencer, Max Mueller, have all recognised this doctrine as incontrovertible. Among the poets of the West also, we find many burnished intellects soaring into the cloudless sky of imagination and within their poetic flights they too have intuitively felt the sanction behind this immortal doctrine-Browning, Rossetti, Tennyson and Wordsworth, to mention but a few names.

The REINCARNATION THEORY is not a mere dream of the philosophers, and the day is not far far off when, with the fast-developing science of Psychology, the West will come to rewrite its Scripture under the sheer weight of observed phenomena. An uncompromising intellectual quest for understanding life cannot satisfy itself if it is thwarted at every corner by "observed irregularities." We cannot, for long, ignore them all as mere 'chances.' The prodigy Mozart is a spectacular instance which cannot be explained away; to be logical we must accept the idea of the continuity of the embodied souls. This genius. wrote Sonatas at the age of four, played in public at the age of five, composed his first Opera at the age of seven! Without the REINCARNATION THEORY, we will have to label this wondrous incident as an accident and throw it into the dust-bin of chance and bury it there!!

Examples are often noticed, but rarely recorded as evidences, to prove this great THEORY OF REINCARNATION. The modern world, as I said, has yet to discover this great and self-evident LAW OF LIFE.

Therefore, to an uninitiated student, this theory may seem too staggering for quiet appreciation. When Krishna declared that none of them, including himself, Arjuna and the great kings, even after their deaths on the battle-field "shall cease to exist in future," Arjuna, a typical man-of-the world could not grasp it as a self-evident fact. His questioning eyes made the Lord explain again the idea through an example in the following stanza.

"WHY DO THEY DESERVE NO GRIEF? FOR THEY ARE ETERNAL IN ESSENCE. HOW?"... THE LORD SAYS:

13. Just as in this body the embodied (soul) passes into childhood, youth and old age, so also does he pass into another body; the firm man does not grieve at it.

Answer 2

Yes I do. No one knows for certain - it's a gamble every person will take, but whether or not believers are right or wrong cannot be determined at this precise moment, no one has a right to say that it does not exist - do you know for sure that it does or doesn't??

Personally, I believe that we are all part of the "Circle of Life" (yeah I know, sounds a little cliche but bear with me).
We live several lives until we have achieved a state of 'nirvana' (anyone, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). Each life you live is meant to be an educational experience for the spirit. So each time you live you would hopefully move to the 'next step' in the learning process (eventually becoming a teacher). You continue to learn something new each time. That's not to say you will 'come back' as a human every time, you could come back as a cat because you were mean to them in your human form so that you can learn to appreciate what it means to be a cat. There are countless ways to explain it, best bet (since you have access to the internet obviously) search it, start with dictionary.com and work your way from there.

Answer 3

Yes, I do.
It is the only way to explain why some are borned with a silver spoon in the mouth and some are dying from hunger. And why some are borned to be so good looking and some are crippled....so on and forth.
If not because of reincarnation - coming back to enjoy/suffer for the good/bad things which we have done in our past lives, who/what else can explain this kind of happenings better?

Answer 4

Yes, some people believe in reincarnation.

Answer 5

I do. Go to Amazon and check out books by Ian Stevenson. It's the only legitimate scientific research on the subject.

Answer 6

No reincarnation is not a part of Islam. It's part of Hinduism. Try http://www.wikipedia.org

Answer 7

U can find all kinds of stuff on google. I only start to believe in it when I read stories on the internet.

Answer 8

I don't but heres some info on it.

-The religions that believe in it are:
*Hinduism
*Buddhism
*Jainism

Good site for lots of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation

Answer 9

Much more likely than the contemporary monotheistic religion view of the afterlife.

Answer 10

Did not jesus or the bible say we live two lives? personally I'd want to stay safe in heaven with him. This world is as scary as something.