Do you believe in re-incarnation?

Question

My sister believes that we are old souls who have lived passed lives. Thereis a lessson to be learned by each life we have lived. We will keep coming back until we get it right. I tend to agee with her. Also, our dreams are forcasts into our futures

Answer 1

Reincarnation is a truth ... If a book does not mention it, Truth does not become false...

Reincarnation is perhaps a wrong word used...hindus and Buddhists use Re-Birth instead.

As humans we have to learn millions of lessons of pains and joys, richness and poverties, cruelty and kindness, killing and be killed, ...till we reach our next mind evolution i.e. Divinity.

One life is not sufficient for all these lessons. hence our soul, after death goes to another body to learn other sets of lessons

The paradoxes as to why some are born rich some poor, some without mind or without limbs...some from poverty going to utter richness...some spiritual from childhood... can not be explained without Reincarnation

Dont ask proof, because no one can give proof of God or heaven/hell...there are certain things which are beyond physical proofs

Many during the hypnotic state have remembered their last birth.

Why we dont remember past birth? Because Nature does not want us to get entangled to our last relations...so that we can freely learn new lessons...that z why She takes away the gross memory at death..and leads soul to new body with the resultant progress earned during last births

Answer 2

According to the Law of Conservation of Mass, matter is neither created or destroyed. So in essence, everyone will be re-incarnated. The atoms that make you up will go on to become parts of a thousand different creatures and elements.

Some people, like my wife, find comfort in this. I don't. I think it's completely meaningless. After I am dead, I could literally could not care less about what happens to my atoms or where they go. I'll be dead, which translated means I will not longer exist.

Answer 3

Bhagavad-gita-2.12 & 13
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.

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both. That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. Bhagavad-gita-2.16 & 17

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.

Below is the purport to Bhagavad-gita(2.17) by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,Founder-Acharya of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)

The influence of the atomic soul can be spread all over a particular body. According to the Mundaka Upanisad, this atomic soul is situated in the heart of every living entity, and because the measurement of the atomic soul is beyond the power of appreciation of the material scientists, some of them assert foolishly that there is no soul. The individual atomic soul is definitely there in the heart along with the Supersoul, and thus all the energies of bodily movement are emanating from this part of the body. The corpuscles which carry the oxygen from the lungs gather energy from the soul. When the soul passes away from this position, the activity of the blood, generating fusion, ceases. Medical science accepts the importance of the red corpuscles, but it cannot ascertain that the source of the energy is the soul. Medical science, however, does admit that the heart is the seat of all energies of the body.

Such atomic particles of the spirit whole are compared to the sunshine molecules. In the sunshine there are innumerable radiant molecules. Similarly, the fragmental parts of the Supreme Lord are atomic sparks of the rays of the Supreme Lord, called by the name prabha, or superior energy. So whether one follows Vedic knowledge or modern science, one cannot deny the existence of the spirit soul in the body, and the science of the soul is explicitly described in the Bhagavad-gita by the Personality of Godhead Himself.

The authoritative word of Lord Sri Krishna in Bhagavad-gita-2.12-13,
" 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".

Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to what they worship, Bhagavad-gita-9.25
"Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live with Me."

Further, Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to what the three modes of material nature, Bhagavad-gita-14.18
Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.

Answer 4

People belief all kind of things, but believing it does not make it true. No body ever has provided any proof that any body ever has come back from the death in any way shape or form. Stick to reality.

Answer 5

I believe we are all part of a whole.

As life on earth we pass from one being to the next, one form to the next - not on a journey or spiritual exercise.

We're recycled matter.

When we cease our bits are returned to the whole (if you aren't full of preservatives and stuck in concrete, that is).

Answer 6

Some people say that we don't have "past lives" but what we remember is the entire history of our family since the time we were created. Human's only use 10% of their brains, and so everything else is the memory of our family for thousands of years. We just don't use it until we need it. I think that concept is kinda neat.

Answer 7

I feel that as a soul we have too many things to learn to do it all in one lifetime. You may learn kindness in this life and humility in the next, plus think about all of the things you know or feel that you wern't taught in this life where does that come from?

Answer 8

It is possible as it is certainly the way the Universe seems to work sometimes - the way it re-uses energy and makes it change form but it is never actualy totaly destroyed. I think Our souls/conciousness (whatever name you want to use) could well be re-formed and developed in another sentient being after we die...

Answer 9

I do not believe in reincarnation in the sense it is believed in many circles. I feel I will pass on into other forms. My body will provide sustenance in one way or the other to other forms of life. and so will pass on

Answer 10

yes i believe in re-incarnation.
i believe that this is only one of many lives that we have to live.
i believe that we choose what we want to be in the next life, that we just temporarily forget our past life until we are gone from this world.