Is the cycle of rebirth true?

Question

is it true after the death we again come to this world in different forms like first human then acc. to our wrong or good things are we granted worse life as in form of animals or insects or a starving human?

Answer 1

"I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end."
-Sir William Jones

When death happens,ie., when the body perishes the eternal indestructible soul within the body goes to another body according to one's karma. Just as one changes new clothes when old cloth is torn, similarly we accept another body(new cloth) when the old body is torn(dies). Just as when a old house we are dwelling collapses, we enter a new house, similarly we give up our old body(where soul lives) and enter new body(house).

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.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.Bhagavad-gita-2.12 & 13

Lord Krishna gives further information in verses 22 to 25, .
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.The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.

Answer 2

Correct. And life means suffering old age, sickness and death. The point is to end this endless cycles of rebirths and suffering. This is done by following the Noble Eightfold Path.

Answer 3

Hindus believe such rebirths reincarnation. Hindus have no concept of Day of Judgment, hell or heaven.
A man was threatened of his rebirth as animals for his daily unwed sexual intercourses with different women. Instead of fearing, he happily wished to take rebirth as a pig, dog or donkey (probably for more sexual enjoyment).

Answer 4

Some folks do believe that. I do not believe in the transmigration of the soul. [Being reincarnated as animal or insect]. I do believe that some souls are reborn, but down through the family line.

Answer 5

There is much more involved than many realize. An agreement has to be reached and a contract signed as to what is to be accomplished if anyone comes back.

Answer 6

This depends a lot on your beliefs: if you are Hindu or Buddhist, you probably will believe that. Even in early Christianity there were people who believed that we are destinied to come back for example Origen.

Answer 7

It is still a question for big scientist how we can answer it in a very easy manner ? But I ... I...!!! really don't know , sometime I feel that rebirth of living thing is not possible but sometime i really got stuck !!!

Answer 8

bye and large no
but lower incarnations move to higher
it is much like darwins pictures but its incarnotions of spiritual being
not evolution of the flesh
this is the highest from here there others
but not flesh and blood ones

Answer 9

I am thinking perhaps Reincarnation or perhaps animal form is only your choice, or you can stay in heaven, I would choose heaven:)

Answer 10

yes there is reincarnation.

and human souls can sometimes incarnate as non-human forms.

but most of the time its within the human range...