i believe we are someplace, then we go someplace,,,,,, as to where,,, i think we are sometimes given options of coming back again,,,, when i had my child,,she was born kicking and screaming, then when handed to me, was totally calm and looked straight in my eyes, the look , feeling i had from her in the first minutes was "ok here i am, whats next", then when my daughter was small, i wondered how i would explain my beliefs to her, when she had just turned 4, a neighbor passed on,,,, she out of the blue said,,,,, i think when you pass on, you get candy so you feel better, then you can come back if you want to,,,,,,, i had never spoken to her about my beliefs,,, but she sure summed it up well,,,,,,
2007-02-03 04:59:05
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answered by dlin333 7
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i have the feeling that we are somewhere in some form before we r born and after we die. i think that before birth we, with the help of a mentor, decide what we need to do when we r born. what our sufferings will be etc, so that we can improve spiritually with each life we live. that could explain extreme suffering of children or anyone. they might have chosen that path before they were born to experience what they needed to experience to be better off spiritually. for example, a baby being born but just taking a breath before dying. perhaps that soul just needed to experience life. i have felt this way since i was a child w/noone teaching me it so when i read about it as an adult, it made my belief stronger. but, maybe it doesnt work that way for everyone. i think its possible to be entirely different for someone else and the fact that we argue or fight about spiritual beliefs seems such a waste to me because who is to say there arent many different things going on at once in the spiritual realm. live and let live is what i try to live by
2007-02-03 05:18:40
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answer #2
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answered by AlwaysWondering 5
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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.
2007-02-03 06:18:08
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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in the previous i change into born, the universe change into merely about precisely because it truly is now. even even with the actuality that my beginning change into considered necessary to my prompt kinfolk, it change right into a lot less that you could the attending nurses and obstetrician, and of merely about no pastime to absolutely everyone or something else. when I die, the universe will stay merely about precisely because it truly is now. My lack of existence is not likely to make a lot of a distinction to absolutely everyone outside my prompt kinfolk (back, except for the pros and technicians whose challenge will change really when I die). From the attitude of the planet, the human species is a temporary blip that began registering below a quarter-million years decrease back and could likely be lengthy gone some hundred thousand years hence, even even with the actuality that the achievements and damage wrought throughout our time at-bat will likely very last fairly longer than we do, Assuming we not in any respect income interstellar colonization and we circumvent thermonuclear destruction, any particular member of our species is inconsequential contained in the wider scheme of issues. truly i'm; I count number merely to myself, my kinfolk, and the different organisms in my prompt ambit. If there is an all-functional deity contained in the classical sense -- human being who's caringly attentive to each and every man or woman's trajectory and destiny -- i ought to wager that each and every man or woman human alongside with myself has an magnitude someplace between that of a potato and that of a wooded area or lake.
2016-11-02 05:25:24
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answer #4
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answered by ? 4
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We are the life of the body,spirit, we lived before we had this body and we will continue to live after it is gone. In the end, after many lifetimes, we will die to the sense of self separate from God, merging into "that" allness of consciousness. As a raindrop of water merges into the sea. As the colors of the rainbow are contained within sunlight, so to are we all contained within the light of Gods unconditional love.
2007-02-03 07:12:26
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answered by Weldon 5
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I will give you a good answer -
I think it is different for each person as their life was different than other lives. I don't think that there is a big one stop shop for afterlife or pre next life. Like for cars and clothes - you variety and get shop around lol.
You could get the tunnel with light, you could get the life review, you could go to the religous heaven of your choice.....
2007-02-03 18:23:54
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answered by JENNIFER B 2
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Before you were born, you did not exist. Part of the would-be you was with your father, the other part was with your mother.
When you die, everything disintegrates and your soul probably starts wandering, unless it can find another father and mother to do their thing again to bring you back.
2007-02-04 00:20:24
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answer #7
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answered by zymzyv 3
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Nothing happens. We are born, we live, and then we die. It's as simple as that. Heaven, hell, reincarnation, etc. are nothing but figments of some people's imagination that they conjure up because they are afraid of actually having a reasonable thought.
2007-02-03 09:54:36
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answer #8
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answered by justsomeguy 2
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All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all of one conciousness experiencing itsleft subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. --Bill Hicks
2007-02-03 08:12:58
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answer #9
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answered by xandx2004 2
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After we die : The life force in you goes back to God. If your mind (soul) is in in line with the Word of God it goes with the spirit. If not, it is seperated from god forever.
2007-02-03 05:10:18
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answered by Israel-1 6
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