Do You Believe In Reincarnation?

Answer 1

It's kind of a fun idea, but some of the choices I've made in this lifetime are stupid enough to convince me that there's no way I've been through multiple lives before. If I had, I would have learned something along the way instead of having to figure it all out like it's the first time.

Answer 2

I don't believe in the Hindu version of reincarnation where humans come back as animals etc. I think the human soul is distinct from an animal soul or plant soul etc.

However I DO believe that the spirit lives on and whether in this physical plane, or the one beyond or moving between both (like some spirits) we are given the chance to work out our unfinished business and move up a step in the development of our soul.

I do not believe in eternal reward and eternal punishment. Especially doled out based on whether or not you accept a certain doctrine as truth. This lifetime is not the ONLY one we'll have to continue on this journey nor will it determine our everlasting fate.

I think you get EXACTLY the balanced results for the actions you put out so that everything is balanced in the end. Every step of the way, your soul is given the chance to learn and grow. That seems so much more fair and just.

It also puts the suffering some experience in this lifetime into perspective. When measured against an eternity to experience something different or better it is but a small scrape on your knee that will heal.

What is important is how we act towards those who ARE experiencing "hell" on earth right now. That determines OUR soul growth and can help theirs as well. We must extend love, help, support and not think they did something in a former life to DESERVE that so, we should just let them suffer.

Answer 3

I definitely believe in reincarnation. I believe that when we die, we enter into a completely different plane of existence where we remember fully every life we have ever lived. We then are able to choose if and when we would like to start another life on Earth. We get to choose the qualities we want and where we are born. Once we are born, we forget all of our other lives until the day we die and the process happens all over again. True love is love that lasts for all eternity, meaning that if you are truly in love with someone and even if you don't remember them while you are living your life on Earth, both of you will be brought together somehow and it will be love at first sight. Imagine loving the person you love now or will love in the future throughout the eons of time, being together for all eternity.

Answer 4

No, i can bet reincarnations don't exist. I can prove it right here in yahoo answers. See evil acts or sins are increasing so much with time, and these people are supposed to be reincarnated as something bad such as a cow or a dog or an ugly insect, and the population of humans would decrease, if sin is increasing and majority of people are dying and being reincarnated as something bad, how come the population of the humans of the world are increasing so rapidly??

Answer 5

Science says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. They can only be transformed -- from solid to liquid; liquid to gas; gas to solid or liquid. So if life is an energy (which it is) and reincarnation is the process of transformation of that energy, then yes, I believe reincarnation exists. What's unknown is only whether you're reincarnated (transformed) as a human or as something else.

Answer 6

I believe in physical reincarnation, but not spiritual.

Physical reincarnation is when you die, your nutrients go into the ground and return as grass(you are part of the grass), the grass is eaten by a cow(you are part of the cow), humans eat the cows(you are a part of that human).

Answer 7

In many cultures of the world people have a sense of our identity being more than just a bag of bones. Ask your self, right now, "Am I this leg, if this leg is cut off, will I still be here." "Am I this finger, nose, liver, kidney, or toe.?" "What if I lost one of these parts of the body, would I still be here as a person.?"

The answer is resoundingly, "YES!". I would still exist without certain parts of the body. In fact, we all generally speak in terms of, "This is my foot, my finger, my tongue." We all speak of the body being separate from our self, and it is. We, as personalities, ARE different than the body. We are eternal beings who hate to die and grow old. We are embodied in this "car" called the body.

Reincarnation means the process of leaving our body when it grows worn out in old age, and transferring to another body. We often see people with phenomenal skills as very young children, being very capable in sports, math, music, dance, etc. Why? Because that experience is accumulated in the previous life.

This human body gives us a rare chance to break from the repeated cycle of birth, growing old, dying and then getting another body. The Vedic scriptures give clear, detailed information all about this, and the simple process of breaking free from this unnatural suffering, to return home, back to Godhead. Some references:

"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." Bhagavad Gita 2.12

"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 2.13

"Just as the fruits and flowers of a tree in due course of time undergo six changes—birth, existence, growth, transformation, dwindling and then death—the material body, which is obtained by the spirit soul under different circumstances, undergoes similar changes. However, there are no such changes for the spirit soul."
Bhagavat Purana 7.7.18

Answer 8

Jesus believed in reincarnation. He fasted too. He also was taught Buddhist philosophy and taught it to the people he met.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

Apart from some unexplainable *coincidences* that would lead anyone to believe I've actually lived lives before this one, I fail to believe in past lives until I'm presented with some concrete evidence.