Reincarnation?
Reincarnate means to “reenter the flesh.”
The soul is immortal and takes birth time and time again. Through this process, we have experiences, learn lessons and evolve spiritually. Finally we graduate from physical birth.
Hinduism हिंदुत्वा believes that the soul is immortal, that it never dies, but inhabits one body after another on the Earth during its evolutionary journey. Like the caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly, physical death is a most natural transition for the soul, which survives and, guided by karma कर्म , continues its long pilgrimage until it is one with God. We our self have had many lives before this one and expect to have more. Finally, when we have it all been worked out and all the lessons have been learned, we will attain enlightenment and moksha, liberation. This means we will still exist, but will no longer be pulled back to be born in a physical body. (Depend on our pious karma कर्म ) Even modern science is discovering reincarnation.
Reincarnation, to us, it explains the natural way the soul evolves from immaturity to spiritual illumination. Life and death are realities for all of us. There have been many cases of individuals’ remembering their past lives. These have been researched by scientists, psychiatrists and parapsychologists during the past decades and documented in good books and videos. Young children speak of vivid past-life memories, which fade as they grow older, as the veils of individuality shroud the soul’s intuitive understanding. Great mystics speak of their past lives as well. So do our ancient scriptures, the Vedas, reveal the reality of reincarnation?
Even Reincarnation is believed in by the Janis जैन and the Sikhs सिख , by the Americans, and by the Buddhists बौद्ध , certain Jewish sects, the Pagans and the many indigenous faiths. Even Christianity originally taught reincarnation, but formally renounced it in the twelfth century. It is, in fact, one of the widest held articles of faith on planet Earth.
Each soul evolves by experiencing many varied lives through reincarnation, called punarjanma पुनर्जन्म in Sanskrit संस्कृत , the process wherein the soul repeatedly takes on a physical body through being born on Earth. Here, a soul, represented by the ray of light, is shown in seven successive lives. Reincarnation is a purposeful maturing process governed by the law of karma कर्म .
Karma कर्म is one of the natural laws of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter. Just as God created gravity to bring order to the physical world, He created karma कर्म as a divine system of justice that is self-governing and infinitely fair. It automatically creates the appropriate future experience in response to the current action. Karma कर्म simply means “action” or “cause and effect.” When something happens to us that are apparently unfortunate or unjust, it is not God punishing us. It is the result of our own past actions. The Vedas वेद्द , Hinduism’s हिंदुत्वा revealed scripture, tell us if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Thus we create our own destiny through thought and action. And the divine law is: whatever karma कर्म we are experiencing in our life is just what we need at the moment, and nothing can happen but that we have the strength to meet it. Even harsh karma कर्म , when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest catalyst for spiritual growth. Understanding the way karma works, we seek to live a good and virtuous life through right thought, right speech and right action. This is called dharma धर्म .
Karma कर्म is basically energy. We throw energy out through thoughts, words and deeds, and it comes back to us, in time, through other people. Karma कर्म is our best teacher, for we must always face the consequences of our actions and thus improve and refine our behavior, or suffer if we do not. We Hindus हिंदू look at time as a circle, as things cycle around again. Professor Einstein came to the same conclusion. He saw time as a curve and space as well. This would eventually make a circle. Karma कर्म is a very just law which, like gravity, treats everyone the same. Because we Hindus हिंदू understand karma कर्म , we do not hate or resent people who do us harm. We understand they are giving back the effects of the causes we set in motion at an earlier time. The law of karma कर्म puts man at the center of responsibility for everything he does and everything that is done to him. Karma कर्म is a word we hear quite often. “This is our karma, कर्म ” or “It must have been something we did in a past life to bring such good karma कर्म to us.”
We hear karma कर्म simply defined as “What goes around, comes around.” In some schools of Hinduism हिंदुत्वा , karma कर्म is looked upon as something bad—perhaps because we are most aware of this law when we are facing difficult karma कर्म , and not so aware of it when life is going smoothly. Even some Hindus equate karma कर्म with sin, and this is what Christians preach that it means. Many people believe that karma कर्म means “fate,” a preordained destiny over which one has no control, which is also untrue. The process of action and reaction on all levels—physical, mental and spiritual—is karma कर्म . Here is an example. I say kind words to you, and you feel peaceful and happy. I say harsh words to you, and you become ruffled and upset.
The kindness and the harshness will return to me, through others, at a later time. This is karma कर्म . An architect thinks creative, productive thoughts while drawing plans for a new building. But were he to think destructive, unproductive thoughts, he would soon not be able to accomplish any kind of positive task even if he desired to do so. This is karma कर्म , a natural law of the mind. We must also be very careful about our thoughts, because thought creates, and thoughts make karmas—good, bad and mixed.
Karma कर्म is the universal principle of cause and effect. Our actions, both good and bad, come back to us in the future, helping us to learn from life’s lessons and become better people.
One of the best examples of karma कर्म is that we can’t give anything away but that generosity will return to us, with interest.
However………….
At death the soul leaves the physical body. But the soul does not die. It lives on in a subtle body called the astral body. The astral body exists in the nonphysical dimension called the astral plane, which is also the world we are in during our dreams at night when we sleep. Here we continue to have experiences until we are reborn again in another physical body as a baby. Each reincarnating soul chooses a home and a family which can best fulfill its next step of learning and maturation. After many lifetimes of following dharma धर्म , the soul is fully matured in love, wisdom and knowledge of God. There is no longer a need for physical birth, for all lessons have been learned, all karmas कर्म fulfilled. That soul is then liberated, freed from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Evolution then continues in the more refined spiritual worlds. Similarly, after we graduate from elementary school we never have to go back to the fifth grade. We have gone beyond that level in understanding. Thus, life’s ultimate goal is not money, not clothes, not sex, not power, not food or any other of the instinctive needs. These are natural pursuits, but our real purpose on this Earth is to know, to love and to serve God and the Gods. That leads to the rare and priceless objects of life: enlightenment and liberation. This Hindu view of the soul’s evolution answers many otherwise bewildering questions, removing the fear of death while giving assurance that each soul is evolving toward the same spiritual destiny, for the Hindu हिंदू believes that karma कर्म and reincarnation are leading every single soul to God Realization.
Reincarnate means to “reenter the flesh.”
The soul is immortal and takes birth time and time again. Through this process, we have experiences, learn lessons and evolve spiritually. Finally we graduate from physical birth.
Hinduism हिंदुत्वा believes that the soul is immortal, that it never dies, but inhabits one body after another on the Earth during its evolutionary journey. Like the caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly, physical death is a most natural transition for the soul, which survives and, guided by karma कर्म , continues its long pilgrimage until it is one with God. We our self have had many lives before this one and expect to have more. Finally, when we have it all been worked out and all the lessons have been learned, we will attain enlightenment and moksha, liberation. This means we will still exist, but will no longer be pulled back to be born in a physical body. (Depend on our pious karma कर्म ) Even modern science is discovering reincarnation.
Reincarnation, to us, it explains the natural way the soul evolves from immaturity to spiritual illumination. Life and death are realities for all of us. There have been many cases of individuals’ remembering their past lives. These have been researched by scientists, psychiatrists and parapsychologists during the past decades and documented in good books and videos. Young children speak of vivid past-life memories, which fade as they grow older, as the veils of individuality shroud the soul’s intuitive understanding. Great mystics speak of their past lives as well. So do our ancient scriptures, the Vedas, reveal the reality of reincarnation?
Even Reincarnation is believed in by the Janis जैन and the Sikhs सिख , by the Americans, and by the Buddhists बौद्ध , certain Jewish sects, the Pagans and the many indigenous faiths. Even Christianity originally taught reincarnation, but formally renounced it in the twelfth century. It is, in fact, one of the widest held articles of faith on planet Earth.
Each soul evolves by experiencing many varied lives through reincarnation, called punarjanma पुनर्जन्म in Sanskrit संस्कृत , the process wherein the soul repeatedly takes on a physical body through being born on Earth. Here, a soul, represented by the ray of light, is shown in seven successive lives. Reincarnation is a purposeful maturing process governed by the law of karma कर्म .
Karma कर्म is one of the natural laws of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter. Just as God created gravity to bring order to the physical world, He created karma कर्म as a divine system of justice that is self-governing and infinitely fair. It automatically creates the appropriate future experience in response to the current action. Karma कर्म simply means “action” or “cause and effect.” When something happens to us that are apparently unfortunate or unjust, it is not God punishing us. It is the result of our own past actions. The Vedas वेद्द , Hinduism’s हिंदुत्वा revealed scripture, tell us if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Thus we create our own destiny through thought and action. And the divine law is: whatever karma कर्म we are experiencing in our life is just what we need at the moment, and nothing can happen but that we have the strength to meet it. Even harsh karma कर्म , when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest catalyst for spiritual growth. Understanding the way karma works, we seek to live a good and virtuous life through right thought, right speech and right action. This is called dharma धर्म .
Karma कर्म is basically energy. We throw energy out through thoughts, words and deeds, and it comes back to us, in time, through other people. Karma कर्म is our best teacher, for we must always face the consequences of our actions and thus improve and refine our behavior, or suffer if we do not. We Hindus हिंदू look at time as a circle, as things cycle around again. Professor Einstein came to the same conclusion. He saw time as a curve and space as well. This would eventually make a circle. Karma कर्म is a very just law which, like gravity, treats everyone the same. Because we Hindus हिंदू understand karma कर्म , we do not hate or resent people who do us harm. We understand they are giving back the effects of the causes we set in motion at an earlier time. The law of karma कर्म puts man at the center of responsibility for everything he does and everything that is done to him. Karma कर्म is a word we hear quite often. “This is our karma, कर्म ” or “It must have been something we did in a past life to bring such good karma कर्म to us.”
We hear karma कर्म simply defined as “What goes around, comes around.” In some schools of Hinduism हिंदुत्वा , karma कर्म is looked upon as something bad—perhaps because we are most aware of this law when we are facing difficult karma कर्म , and not so aware of it when life is going smoothly. Even some Hindus equate karma कर्म with sin, and this is what Christians preach that it means. Many people believe that karma कर्म means “fate,” a preordained destiny over which one has no control, which is also untrue. The process of action and reaction on all levels—physical, mental and spiritual—is karma कर्म . Here is an example. I say kind words to you, and you feel peaceful and happy. I say harsh words to you, and you become ruffled and upset.
The kindness and the harshness will return to me, through others, at a later time. This is karma कर्म . An architect thinks creative, productive thoughts while drawing plans for a new building. But were he to think destructive, unproductive thoughts, he would soon not be able to accomplish any kind of positive task even if he desired to do so. This is karma कर्म , a natural law of the mind. We must also be very careful about our thoughts, because thought creates, and thoughts make karmas—good, bad and mixed.
Karma कर्म is the universal principle of cause and effect. Our actions, both good and bad, come back to us in the future, helping us to learn from life’s lessons and become better people.
One of the best examples of karma कर्म is that we can’t give anything away but that generosity will return to us, with interest.
However………….
At death the soul leaves the physical body. But the soul does not die. It lives on in a subtle body called the astral body. The astral body exists in the nonphysical dimension called the astral plane, which is also the world we are in during our dreams at night when we sleep. Here we continue to have experiences until we are reborn again in another physical body as a baby. Each reincarnating soul chooses a home and a family which can best fulfill its next step of learning and maturation. After many lifetimes of following dharma धर्म , the soul is fully matured in love, wisdom and knowledge of God. There is no longer a need for physical birth, for all lessons have been learned, all karmas कर्म fulfilled. That soul is then liberated, freed from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Evolution then continues in the more refined spiritual worlds. Similarly, after we graduate from elementary school we never have to go back to the fifth grade. We have gone beyond that level in understanding. Thus, life’s ultimate goal is not money, not clothes, not sex, not power, not food or any other of the instinctive needs. These are natural pursuits, but our real purpose on this Earth is to know, to love and to serve God and the Gods. That leads to the rare and priceless objects of life: enlightenment and liberation. This Hindu view of the soul’s evolution answers many otherwise bewildering questions, removing the fear of death while giving assurance that each soul is evolving toward the same spiritual destiny, for the Hindu हिंदू believes that karma कर्म and reincarnation are leading every single soul to God Realization.
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