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2007-03-10 01:39:24 · 19 answers · asked by srinivasa r 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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i clarify this! try using the internet to do YOUR OWN research!!!

2007-03-10 01:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Because your mind exists without the body it is considered an energetic force and will return to a contious stream of consciousness. If you have not removed suffering from your life and attained happiness you will die and be reborn. This is called cyclic existence. You can be given a good rebirth or a bad one depending on what you do in this life. A good indication of where you will be in the next life is how you look now and what your thought patterns are. You can stop cyclic existence...but it's complicated and there isn't enough space to go into it here.

2007-03-10 09:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by Yogini 6 · 0 0

I understand its like recycling. There's only so much spirits/souls available. So when someone on this earth dies, sometime new souls are not replanted, instead a soul that has already been to earth is recycled. Of course there is no information on why it happens.

2007-03-10 10:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by verbalise 4 · 0 0

A born-again Christian is someone who has repented of their sins and turned to Christ for their salvation, and as a result has become part of God's family forever. All this takes place as God's Spirit works in our lives.

You see, by nature we aren't members of God's family, and we don't have any right to inherit eternal life. The reason is because of our sin. We have rebelled against God, and because of that, the Bible says, we are "separated from the life of God ... due to the hardening of (our) hearts" (Ephesians 4:18). No, you may not see yourself as a bad person (and you probably aren't)—but in God's eyes even one sin is enough to keep you out of heaven.

But Jesus Christ came to save us and to make us part of His family forever! He did this by dying for our sins on the cross and by conquering death through His resurrection. You see, as a human being you were born into a family—and nothing can ever change that. But when we come to Christ we are spiritually reborn into another family—the family of God. The Bible says to Christ's followers, "You have been born again ... through the living and enduring word of God" (1 Peter 1:23).

My prayer is that you too may be born again and become part of God's family. By a simple prayer of faith, tell God that you know you are a sinner, and you are sorry for your sins. Then ask Christ to come into your life and save you. When you do, God will come to live within you by His Spirit, and you will be born again.

2007-03-10 10:02:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"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

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
An excerpt from the purport by Purport by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of ISKCON,
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
There is no endurance of the changing body. That the body is changing every moment by the actions and reactions of the different cells is admitted by modern medical science; and thus growth and old age are taking place in the body. But the spirit soul exists permanently, remaining the same despite all changes of the body and the mind. That is the difference between matter and spirit. By nature, the body is ever changing, and the soul is eternal. This conclusion is established by all classes of seers of the truth, both impersonalist and personalist. In the Vishnu Purana (2.12.38) it is stated that Vishnu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotimsii vishnur bhuvanani vishnuh). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.

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.

2007-03-10 10:56:37 · answer #5 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0 1

What you are seeking can be best understood by attending classes going on at your local Kingdom Hall. Call them to see what book study would best suit your schedule. No obligations and the materials are free.

2007-03-10 09:51:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't believe in the rebirth. I cannot clarify that.

2007-03-10 09:45:08 · answer #7 · answered by Expression 5 · 0 2

So you are born the first time and that is just a physical birth but you have an opportunity to be born again in the spiritual realm which will also usher you into a life everlasting. And all you have to do is believe.

2007-03-10 09:43:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

There is nothing to substantiate the theory of reincarnation even in Hindu scriptures.

" Beyond the three skies let him go,whence he shall NEVER COME AGAIN in all years to be long as the sun is in heaven."--[Arthava veda,6:75:3]

"All creatures are one fourth of Him, three fourths what DIETH NOT IN HEAVENS." --[Ibid, 19:6:3]

"Through whom the gods [Humen ancestors of the Aryans] discovered the
eternal life."--[Ibid,4:23:6]

"Let the dead remain among the Fathers."--[Ibid,18:4:48]

"Fathers rejoice in the heaven with all yours members."--[Ibid,18:4:64]

Rig Veda confirms that the Creator creates all things of this world and the next , at a certain time :

"The father of the eye, the wise in spirit, created both these worlds."--[Rig veda,10:82:2]

" You will not find Him who produced these creatures : another thing has arisen in your mind.Enwrapt in misty cloud with lips that stammer,hymn-chanters wander and are discontented."--[ibid,10:82:7]


As per rebirth theory based on Manu's teachings, a person who commits adultery with the wife of another, or causes death of virtuous people,he gets the BODY OF A TREE, on his rebirth.

This is just baseless since a tree can contain several souls if propagated by cutting its branches and growing them separately.Each branch will become another tree.


Even Bhagwat Geeta informs of Shri Krishna, the 8th avatar of Vishnu as saying. " Thinking on that, merged in that, solely devoted to thatTHEY GO WHENCE THERE IS NO RETURN, their signs dispelled by wisdom."--[Bhagwat Geeta,5:17]

" Having come to Me, these mahatmas, COME NOT AGAIN TO BIRTH, the place pf pain, noneternal, they have gone to highest bliss."--[ibid,8:14]

The 9th avatar of Vishnu was Buddha who said, " There is no evidence of an immutable ego-being, which remaineth and migrates from body to
body."--[The Gospel of Buddha by Carus,p-23]


"Gautama [Buddha] did not teach the transmigration of souls."--[Hibbertlecture by Rhys Davids, 1880, p-91]

"His [Budhha's] doctrine was not metempsycosis."--[Chiristianity & Buddhism by Sterling Berry,p-75]


In JAINISM also, the rebirth theory is not acceptable;


"We will now adopt the law, after the adoption of which WE WILL NOT BE BORN AGAIN."--[Gyan Sutra, part II s.b.e.XIV,p-65]

"How can it be imagined that he shouild be born again who profess the pure,complete, unparalled law and is a recepticle of the unparalleled law."--[Ibid,pg-331-332]

The Sikh Guru Nanak Sahib also discarded this theory;

" The Lord has become mercyful, COMING AND GOING HAS STOPPED."--[Adi Granth translated by Ernest Trumpp,p-72]

"Praise thou the name of Ram[God], THERE WILL NOT BE AGAIN COMIN AND GOING."--[Ibid,p-52]

" Having become in the way of religion, HE PUTS A STOP OF GYRATION OF DEATH AND LIFE."--[Ibid,p-195]


Scientifically also there is no explanation whatsoever, which can substantiate reincarnation or rebirth.

2007-03-11 09:20:14 · answer #9 · answered by ♪¢αpη' ε∂ïß♪ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 6 · 0 0

In most Indian philosophical traditions, including the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikhism and Jain systems, an ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is assumed as a fact of nature. These systems differ widely, however, in the terminology with which they describe the process and in the metaphysics they use in interpreting it. In Hinduism, it is avidya, or ignorance, of one's true self, that leads to ego-consciousness of the body and the phenomenal world. This grounds one in desire and the perpetual chain of karma and reincarnation.

Hindus believe in reincarnation, the process wherein the soul (atman) repeatedly takes on a physical body through being born on Earth.

In India the concept of reincarnation is first recorded in the Upanishads (c. 800 BCE), which are philosophical and religious texts composed in Sanskrit. The doctrine of reincarnation is absent in the Vedas, which are generally considered the oldest of the Hindu scriptures.

According to Hinduism, the soul (atman) is immortal, while the body is subject to birth and death. The Bhagavad Gita states that:

Worn-out garments are shed by the body; Worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller within the body. New bodies are donned by the dweller, like garments.

The idea that the soul (of any living being - including animals, humans and plants) reincarnates is intricately linked to karma, another concept first introduced in the Upanishads. Karma (literally: action) is the sum of one's actions, and the force that determines one's next reincarnation. The cycle of death and rebirth, governed by karma, is referred to as samsara.

Hinduism teaches that the soul goes on repeatedly being born and dying. One is reborn on account of desire: a person desires to be born because he or she wants to enjoy worldly pleasures, which can be enjoyed only through a body. Hinduism does not teach that all worldly pleasures are sinful, but it teaches that they can never bring deep, lasting happiness or peace (ānanda). According to the Hindu sage Adi Shankaracharya - the world as we ordinarily understand it - is like a dream: fleeting and illusory. To be trapped in Samsara is a result of ignorance of the true nature of being.

After many births, every person eventually becomes dissatisfied with the limited happiness that worldly pleasures can bring. At this point, a person begins to seek higher forms of happiness, which can be attained only through spiritual experience. When, after much spiritual practice (sādhanā), a person finally realizes his or her own divine nature—ie., realizes that the true "self" is the immortal soul rather than the body or the ego—all desires for the pleasures of the world will vanish, since they will seem insipid compared to spiritual ānanda. When all desire has vanished, the person will not be reborn anymore.

When the cycle of rebirth thus comes to an end, a person is said to have attained moksha, or salvation.[4] While all schools of thought agree that moksha implies the cessation of worldly desires and freedom from the cycle of birth and death, the exact definition of salvation depends on individual beliefs. For example, followers of the Advaita Vedanta school (often associated with jnana yoga) believe that they will spend eternity absorbed in the perfect peace and happiness that comes with the realization that all existence is One (Brahman), and that the immortal soul is part of that existence. Thus they will no longer identify themselves as individual persons, but will see the "self" as a part of the infinite ocean of divinity, described as sat-chit-ananda (existence-knowledge-bliss). The followers of full or partial Dvaita schools ("dualistic" schools, such as bhakti yoga), on the other hand, perform their worship with the goal of spending eternity in a loka, (spiritual world or heaven), in the blessed company of the Supreme being (i.e Krishna or Vishnu for the Vaishnavas, Shiva for the Shaivites). The two schools (Dvaita & Advaita) are not necessarily contradictory, however. A follower of one school may believe that both types of salvation are possible, but will simply have a personal preference to experience one or the other. Thus, it is said, the followers of Dvaita wish to "taste sugar," while the followers of Advaita wish to "become sugar."

2007-03-10 09:44:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Ur a fallacy, ur not even Real.

I used to be a dog, I've been down graded to a human form, yuck. I guess I was a pretty bad dog.

IMAZERG, u dumdum, Why does everything have to be Christian or towards it. Get ur head out of ur @ss.

Lol @ Joshua, I'm a "fan."

2007-03-10 09:44:31 · answer #11 · answered by FaceFullofFashion 6 · 0 1

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