Hindus believe in reincarnation.Hinduism explains the mystical process of death and dying.
The soul dwells as the inmost body of light and superconscious, universal mind of a series of nested bodies, each more refined than the next: physical, pranic, astral, mental. In our conscious mind we think and feel ourselves to be a physical body with some intangible spirit within it. Yet, right now our real identity is the soul that is sensing through its multiple bodies physical, emotional and mental experience. Recognizing this as reality, we powerfully know that life doesn't end with the death of the biological body. The soul continues to occupy the astral body, a subtle, luminous duplicate of the physical body. This subtle body is made of higher-energy astral matter and dwells in a dimension called the astral plane. If the soul body itself is highly evolved, it will occupy the astral/mental bodies on a very refined plane of the astral known as the Devaloka, "the world of light-shining beings." At death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension.
The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night. The astral world is equally as solid and beautiful, as varied and comprehensive as the earth dimension-if not much more so. Spiritual growth, psychic development, guidance in matters of governance and commerce, artistic cultivation, inventions and discoveries of medicine, science and technology all continue by astral people who are "in-between" earthly lives. Many of the Veda hymns entreat the assistance of devas: advanced astral or mental people. Yet, also in the grey, lower regions of this vast, invisible dimension exist astral people whose present pursuits are base, selfish, even sadistic. Where the person goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind.
Because certain seed karmas can only be resolved in earth consciousness and because the soul's initial realizations of Absolute Reality are only achieved in a physical body, our soul joyously enters another biological body. At the right time, it is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body-which is a duplicate of the last physical form-is sluffed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation: "re-occupying the flesh."
During our thousands of earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns are experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. We come to earth as princesses and presidents, as paupers and pirates, as tribals and scientists, as murderers and healers, as atheists and, ultimately, God-Realized sages. We take bodies of every race and live the many religions, faiths and philosophies as the soul gains more knowledge and evolutionary experience.
Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development.
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2007-10-03 22:54:24
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answered by Adi 2
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You will go to another plane of existance.
At this time you will see Jesus (I am the light), don't most people who have died and come back say that they see a brilliant light?
Then they have a life review in which they see and feel ALL of the joy or pain that they have caused others to feel.
At this time they are given a choice to stay where they are or perfect their souls by returning to earth to do Gods will and maybe make up for some of the wrongs that they have committed in life.
Yes I believe in reincarnation, but only as a choice.
Wouldn't any loving parent give their child a chance to correct a wrong and make up for it? or would a loving parent throw you into Hell because you messed up? I'm sure there are other ways to view this, but this is just my opinion. (and yes I do beleive it is biblical, just read the bible with an open mind and you will see many, many references.)
Blessings!!
*EDIT* Free- What about those of us who remember? There are many Christians who have told me that my memories are perhaps Satans way of 'tricking me'. (My answer to them of course is why would he trick me into becoming MORE spiritual and faithful to God?) I suppose just like CERTAIN 'Christians' you will tell me that it is a trick too, only of my mind. My question to you would be why? I did not grow up in a 'religious' house and no one in my family believed in reincarnation, so why should I have these memories from such a young age? We have all had things happen in our lives that 'felt' real, dreams that 'felt' real, yet they were different than things that actually happened and the memories that we have. What I remember was real.
2007-10-03 16:54:09
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answered by Jaye16 5
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Yes, I do believe in reincarnation. When we pass away, our spirit goes to a place where we meet our beloved ones and where we have the chance to be prepared to be born again. We can stay in the body for a few hours or a few days after death, that depends on the nature of the death and how strong the person was in his/her faith in life after death.
Our staying in the spiritual world might vary from a couple of months to decades before you are born again. After living several lives and progressing spiritually through them, and achieving a higher level of enlightenment, we don't need to be born again. We stay in the spiritual world helping those still struggling here and that's why we all have spirits around us helping us every day. We connect to them through prayer, attitude and actions.
Check some of my questions to see Bible verses on that regard.
Peace!
2007-10-03 17:06:08
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answered by Janet Reincarnated 5
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Nothing will happen to us after death simply because we're nothing but a very advanced product of evolution. While we may be the most dominant life form on the planet and capable of rational thought and great inventions, we are still made up of the same molecules as all other life on the planet. If you believe in the afterlife simply because the Bible tells you, then you are discounting years of scientific fact.
Every culture has certain ideas on what happens after death simply because it's a great mystery and people want answers that are happy instead of depressing. It gives them something to look forward to as opposed to an inescapable finite ending. Has anyone ever come back from the dead to tell us something profound? No. But what about those shows with spiritual mediums like John Edwards? They're nothing but scam artists that tell desperate people what they want to hear since their audience is pre-screened, signs waivers that do not allow you to talk about what you saw, and are actually interviewed before taping about people you recently lost. The hosts then fire out a lot of guesses which are edited out. Don't believe me? Watch the investigative reports that went to these bogus tricksters' recordings.
But what about people that have been pronounced dead and then resuscitated claiming they saw visions of tunnels and bright lights. They weren't actually dead yet because their cells were still alive, they may not have been breathing or had a pulse, which is quite different from death. These visions can be reproduced by anyone suffering from a prolonged lack of oxygen and is documented in Air Force tests with gravity simulators(where you spin around very fast in a centrifuge). Test pilots reported seeing visions of exactly what people describe "the afterlife" looks like when the G forces were so strong that blood drained from their head causing them to pass out.
Stop living your life due to literature that refuses is incapable of being tested by science and instead believe in proven facts. The sooner you realize there is no magical tea party in the sky as part of the greater beyond, the sooner you can start living your life to the fullest extent because you're not getting a second shot.
2007-10-03 17:10:38
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answered by freejunkmail2004 2
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in one word, Barzakh.
Barzakh is a sequence that happens after death, in which the archangel Azrael with the help of other less significant angels will separate the soul from the body, either harshly or painlessly depending on how righteous the person was during their lifetime (Qur'an 79.1-2). Three main events take place chronologically which constitute the Barzakh sequence:
The separation of the soul and the body.
Nakir and Munkar's (two Angels) interrogation of the soul in its grave.
"Who is your (lord)?"
"What is your way of life?"
"Who is your leader?" Sura 17.71
The "Waahsh" or the horror of the grave, the pressure of the grave depending on whether the person was righteous or not.
Muhammad referred to the interrogation as, "...the worst hours of a man's life".
2007-10-03 16:51:40
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answered by hamon 1
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yes....
Through the follies of life i have come to believe in God in a very different way than was originally taught to me in the Bible. Don’t get me wrong I am very studied in the Word of God, and I believe the teachings in the bible hold very historical, moral and even spiritual lessons.
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I have come to believe that God is less a single physical being and more like the collection of all that is life. I view life as a common mixture of all emotions, desires, instincts, ambitions and personalities from all living creatures. Life is a continuously flowing force that simply reiterates itself in different physical manifestations including the human form. I can’t imagine I was “nothing” before I was alive and I can’t image being “nothing” after death. This is why I believe in reincarnation.
Note: I believe anyone who thinks they were someone else specific (ie the Queen of England) in a former life is full of crap.
2007-10-03 17:06:52
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answered by mike 3
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When your physical body dies, your soul or spirit will die with it, since that which we call the soul is the sum total of the physical activity of the brain.
Reincarnation, "heaven" and all those things are comforting illusions, and no more.
2007-10-03 16:50:57
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe that humans will repeat lives until their destiny's are fulfilled and at they point you will reach the eternal resting place. I fail to believe that the soul will recognize the former lives and / or vessels they are assigned to until the journey has been completed.
I don't know if that qualifies as reincarnation.
2007-10-03 16:58:01
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answered by OneAvgNaNa 2
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I personally don't. I think it's a belief driven by
1) fear of death
2) fear of the end or unknown (the need to want to see things continue)
3) wishful thinking via karma (it's comforting to think that people we don't like will be punished and the ones we like will be rewarded)
4) explanations of human behavior ("I must have been a so-and-so in a past life")
5) projection of the ego or alter-ego ("In my past life I was [some exciting character that's who I want to be or is the opposite of who I am now]").
2007-10-03 16:47:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
2007-10-03 16:47:15
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answered by Anonymous
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