2007-03-14 22:16:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
No, there are several realms in which one can be reborn. Some people are reborn in heaven, some are reborn in hell, some are reborn as hungry ghosts and so on. Heaven is not a place but a state of existence where one has a subtle body and where the mind experiences mainly pleasure. Some religions strive very hard to be reborn in a heavenly existence mistakenly believing it to be a permanent state. But it is not. Like all conditioned states, heaven is impermanent and when one’s life span there is finished, one could well be reborn again as a human. Hell, likewise, is not a place but a state of existence where one has a subtle body and where the mind experiences mainly anxiety and distress. Being a hungry ghost, again, is a state of existence where the body is subtle and where the mind is continually plagued by longing and dissatisfaction.
So heavenly beings experience mainly pleasure, hell beings and ghosts experience mainly pain and human beings experience usually a mixture of both. So the main difference between the human realm and other realms is the body type and the quality of experience.
Buddhism offers the most satisfactory explanation of where beings come from and where they are going. When we die, the mind, with all the tendencies, preferences, abilities and characteristics that have been developed and conditioned in this life, re-establishes itself in a fertilised egg. Thus the individual grows, is re-born and develops a personality conditioned both by the mental characteristics that have been carried over. And by the new environment, the personality will change and be modified by conscious effort ;and conditioning factors like education, parental influence and society and once again at death, re-establishing itself in a new fertilised egg. This process of dying and being reborn will continue until the conditions that cause it, craving and ignorance, cease. When they do, instead of being reborn, the mind attains a state called Nirvana and this is the ultimate goal of Buddhism and the purpose of life..
2007-03-14 22:19:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most important factor, but not the only one, influencing where we will be reborn and what sort of life we shall have, is karma. The word karma means 'action' and refers to our intentional mental actions. In other words, what we are is determined very much by how we have thought and acted in the past. Likewise, how we think and act now will influence how we will be in the future. Just as radio waves will be picked up by a radio tuned to its particular frequency, the mental energies released at the time of death will naturally be re-established in a new material body that most suits it. Thus, the gentle, loving type of person shall be reborn in a heavenly realm or as a human being in a comfortable environment. The anxious, worried or extremely cruel type of person is reborn in a hell realm, or as an animal, or as a human being born in extremely difficult environment.
Not only is there scientific evidence to support the phenomena of rebirth, it is the only after-life theory that has any evidence to support it. During the last 30 years parapsychologists have been studying reports that some people have vivid memories of their former lives. Professor Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia's Department of Psychology has described dozens of cases of this type in his books. He is an accredited scientist whose 25 year study of people who remember former lives is very strong evidence for rebirth.
2007-03-15 05:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by Suzzie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i also feel so.scietifically human beings are most evolved creature.we are sitting at the top of evolution.it is evident there is no looking back and human beings shall reborn as human beings only. Lower creatures can evolve in different species ,but not the human beings.
2007-03-15 05:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by anjani kumar s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can reinvent, remake, rehabilitate, rehash, reexamine in order to altar positions and conditions as humans. In a sense, that can be considered as being a rebirth of one's self.
2007-03-15 05:34:20 · answer #4 · answered by gone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope not , I'm harboring hope that some of the former and current political crop in both Canada and the US come back as bugs that I can squash.
2007-03-15 08:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by Lizzy-tish 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of them hope so. But no one knows whether its true . But re- incornation is noticed only at films or plays or serials but no one has come across with it really.
It may be true or may not be true
2007-03-15 05:41:52 · answer #6 · answered by sneha y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Na, more like the movie "Scorpion King". You might say your fate is in the stars
2007-03-15 15:41:44 · answer #7 · answered by blackhawk V16 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after many births and gud karmas one becomes a human
2007-03-15 07:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by melovedogs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you are born once and you die once. Your soul will then either go to heaven or hell, which is determined by whether you accepted (during you lifetime) Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour.
2007-03-15 05:26:13 · answer #9 · answered by The Desert Bird 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, Its from bhagavad gita, that it is based on ur karma
2007-03-15 05:24:25 · answer #10 · answered by tdrajagopal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋