Do you believe in the reincarnation?

Question

WHY? WHY NOT?

Answer 1

Yes. You have asked an extremely intelligent question. Have you ever wondered why some people are born rich, and some are born poor? Why is one man born blind, or without a limb? How does one explain why some people live to a ripe old age, while others die in infancy, for no apparent reason? We can see that there is life everywhere. Plants, aquatics, animals, and humans. What determines the body of the living entity? Is it just chance, that I was born a human, and not a cat?

Reincarnation is a principal which follows the law of Karma. In the Bhagavad-Gita, God Himself explains the nature of the soul:

"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."

"That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul".

"For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain".

"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". (Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 2, verses 13,17,20,22)

We can see from the above verses that we are not our bodies, but that our real identity, the " I " to whom we refer, is an individual spirit soul, and that the soul is eternally existing. This life, then, is not the only life we have ever had, nor is it the last, because we know that any material body is temporary, and immediately begins to decompose when the soul leaves the body. What determines the body we take? In chapter 15 of the Bhagavad-Gita, God explains:

"The living entities in this conditioned world are my eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another. The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects".
(BG 15.7,8,9)

The living entity is described as "isvara", the controller of his own body. If he likes he can change his body to a higher grade, or if he wants he can change to a lower class. The change his body undergoes depends on him. At the time of death, the consciousness he has created will carry him on to the next kind of body. If he develops the consciousness of a dog, he can take the dog body, and if he develops godly qualities, he can take a spiritual body. If he has developed some good qualities, but has not advanced sufficiently to obtain a spiritual body, he may again take a human body. In the human body, whatever activities he enjoyed in his last life, he will continue to enjoy the results of in this life. So, if a man was wealthy in his last life, but misused his money, perhaps in this life he can be born without money. Since we cannot remember our past lives, there is no way to know for what activities we are suffering or enjoying, so we cannot judge others, and neither can we feel sorrow for our own condition. And, there is no garauntee that we will again take a human birth. The results of some activities carry the consequences of an animal birth. Therefore, the goal is to attain a spiritual body, so that we do not have to enter the cycle of birth, death, disease, and old age.

Answer 2

There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 3

You seem to key onto one sentence and obsess over it, my buddy. answer: not all Jews theory in reincarnation. some have confidence the soul reincarnates until one is righteous sufficient to connect G-d while dying. some have confidence the soul reincarnates until the Messiah/Messianic Age comes around. some do not have confidence in reincarnation in any respect (extra of the common theory).

Answer 4

I do believe in reincarnation. It just make sense to me but I can't explain why. I also believe in recycling souls. As soon as a person die, the soul get transfer to a new born.

Answer 5

Yes, it is one of the hallmarks of Hinduism, and it makes sense. Doing good can earn you a better life next time around, if not this time, while doing bad can mean a worse life. There have been enough instances of past life recollection to at least lend it some sort of credibility.

Answer 6

There are eight words used in the theosophical philosophy in connection with Reimbodiment, which are not all synonymous, although some of these eight words have almost the same specific meaning. They are: Pre-existence, Rebirth, Reimbodiment, Palingenesis, Metensomatosis, Transmigration, Reincarnation. Of these eight words, four only may be said to contain the four different basic ideas of the general doctrine of Reimbodiment, and these four are Pre-existence, Reimbodiment, Metempsychosis, and Transmigration.
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Answer 7

I don't feel like I've been here before. I have nothing physical to give me any hint that we return, I don't agree with the idea of the soul, so....I suppose I don't believe.
I still think it makes more sense than the heaven/hell ideology.

Answer 8

Yes I do....http://www.edgarcayce.com/originanddestiny.html

Answer 9

Yes, because in my previous life I was a Klingon on Uranus.

Answer 10

What makes you think we are so special that we come back to life after we die?

How can this be explained scientifically? If you think about it from that point of view it doesn't seem likely.