Is it true that we are born again and again? Do we meet few of the same persons in this birth too?

Question

For instance, sometimes we come across people and get emotionally and mentally attached to certain persons and without our knowledge and even before we realise tend to build a strong bondage and do not hesitate to do anything for those persons, strangely enough, even though normally we may not feel the same way with few others, whom we generally come across in our lives. This could be experienced at different stages of life by many of us. We even openly acknowledge that "our meeting each other is because of previous birth's connection". How and why is it so?

Answer 1

Its called reincarnation. Your spirit has a lot to learn before its ready to meet the Divine Spirit. ( which ever god you believe in).
So you live out several life times. Some times you cross paths with those whom you knew in the past. Think of it like meeting a class mate from preschool while your in high school.

Answer 2

The Master was walking through the fields one day when a young man,
a troubled look upon his face, approached him.

"On such a beautiful day, it must be difficult to stay so serious," the Master said.

"Is it? I hadn't noticed," the young man said, turning to look around and notice his surroundings. His eyes scanned the landscape, but nothing seemed to register; his mind elsewhere. Watching intently, the Master continued to walk.

"Join me if you like." The Master walked to the edge of a still pond, framed by sycamore trees, their leaves golden orange and about to fall.

"Please sit down," the Master invited, patting the ground next to him. Looking carefully before sitting, the young man brushed the ground to clear a space for himself.

"Now, find a small stone, please," the Master instructed.

"What?"

"A stone. Please find a small stone and throw it in the pond."

Searching around him, the young man grabbed a pebble and threw it as far as he could.

"Tell me what you see," the Master instructed.

Straining his eyes to not miss a single detail, the man looked at the water's surface.

"I see ripples."

"Where did the ripples come from?"

"From the pebble I threw in the pond, Master."

"Please reach your hand into the water and stop the ripples," the Master asked.

Not understanding, the young man stuck his hand in the water as a ripple neared, only to cause more ripples.

The young man was now completely baffled. Where was he going wrong? Had he made a mistake in seeking out the Master? Puzzled, the young man waited.

"Were you able to stop the ripples with your hands?" the Master asked.

"No, of course not."

"Could you have stopped the ripples, then?"

"No, Master. I told you I only caused more ripples."

"What if you had stopped the pebble from entering the water to begin with?" The Master smiled such a beautiful smile; the young man could not be upset.

"Next time you are unhappy with your life, catch the stone before it hits the water. Do not spend time trying to undo what you have done. Rather, change what you are going to do before you do it." The Master looked kindly upon the young man.

"But I came to you to ask you for answers. Are you saying that I know the answers?"

"You may not know the answers right now, but if you ask the right questions, then you shall discover the answers."

"But what are the right questions, Master?"

"There are no wrong questions, only unasked ones. We must ask, for without asking, we cannot receive answers. But it is your responsibility to ask. No one else can do that for you."

Srila Prabhpada instructs

Human intelligence is there to enquire about the Absolute Truth. They have got better developed consciousness or intelligence than the lower animals. So that higher intelligence should be utilized for enquiring about the Absolute Truth.

As long as a human being does not inquire “Who am I? Who is god? What is my relation with God? Why I am suffering? I do not wish to die. Why death is enforced upon me? I do not want to be diseased.
Why disease is forced upon me? I do not want to become old.
Why I become old? These things are very important questions.
That is called atma-tattvam, self-realization. Human life is meant for this purpose, enquiring self-realization. And if we do not enquire, then we are no better than animals. Animals have no power to enquire about the self. They are simply busy with the problems of the body—eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Similarly, if human body is also engaged simply for eating, sleeping, mating and defending, that is not very good civilization. That is not at all human civilization.

REF. Lecture -- Buffalo , April 19, 1969


Please chant
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
& be happy

Answer 3

If we do not live a pure and God pleasing life then it is believed that we will take birth again and again. If we have not cleared our accounts with various persons during our life we got to take birth to clear the pending accounts with them.!!.

Answer 4

Yes we have to take re-birth again and again and thus slowly progress towards divinity

This cycle of re-birth stops only when we have no material/physical desire left to be fulfilled

If we have a Rinubandhan (Karmic debt) with a person, we surely meet him/her in next birth.

Similarly whom we love...we try to be near them in next birth as father, mother, brother,sister, wife,children or friends

Who soever comes to our life is due to some karmic chain ...not by mere accident. some come to give happiness some to give troubles... all due to karmic debts

Answer 5

Make the best of this life in a humane way and leave the rest to the unknown natural forces whatever name you want to assign them.

No one has ever come back to prove in a convincing manner as to wht is beyond death. Reach the one that is within you to make good for yourself and others.

Time to act is now. All the rest are philosophies - some to create a better human environment and others are just competitive selling strategies of one religion over another.

Answer 6

Due to ignorance of the real existence of the Lord, the conditioned soul imagines many things. Influenced by fruitive activity, he comes together with his relatives, fathers, sons and grandfathers, exactly as straws gather together in a moving stream. In a moment the straws are thrown everywhere, and they lose contact. In conditional life, the living entity is temporarily with many other conditioned souls. They gather together as family members, and the material affection is so strong that even after a father or grandfather passes away, one takes pleasure in thinking that they return to the family in different forms. Sometimes this may happen, but in any case the conditioned soul likes to take pleasure in such concocted thoughts.
The above is from the purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 5.14.17 by
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Founder-Acharya of ISKCON
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)

My dear mother, in a restaurant or place for drinking cold water, many travelers are brought together, and after drinking water they continue to their respective destinations. Similarly, living entities join together in a family, and later, as a result of their own actions, they are led apart to their destinations. Srimad Bhagavatam7.2.21
purport to above verse by
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
"The bewildered soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature." (Bg. 3.27) All living entities act exactly according to the directions of prakrti, material nature, because in the material world we are fully under a higher control. All the living entities in this material world have come here only because they wanted to be equal to Krishna in enjoyment and have thus been sent here to be conditioned by material nature in different degrees. In the material world a so-called family is a combination of several persons in one home to fulfill the terms of their imprisonment. As criminal prisoners scatter as soon as their terms are over and they are released, all of us who have temporarily assembled as family members will continue to our respective destinations. Another example given is that family members are like straws carried together by the waves of a river. Sometimes such straws mix together in whirlpools, and later, dispersed again by the same waves, they float alone in the water.

Answer 7

according to Hinduism one soul will ---rebirth --7x7--But in thirukkural 'elu piravium' that means 7 rebirths-- in some sayings --eal-eal piravikkum-- that is our sins will accompany us for --7x7=49 rebirths-- any how if you believe in God- spirit-soul etc., then certainly there is re birth

Answer 8

no it isn't true.however there is a belief that when we die GOD decides to send us in heaven or reborn us on the account of the sins we did in our past birth.and your next answer is also no as we are not reborned again.

Answer 9

Many religions believe in reincarnation and so do I

Answer 10

It is so because the answer to your first question is YES.