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What is the theory of rebirth?
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
What is the Hindu concept of the rebirth of the soul?
Reincarnation is a key belief within Hinduism. In Hinduism, all life goes through birth, life, death, and rebirth and this is known as the cycle of samsara . Once a living being dies, its atman will be reborn or reincarnated into a different body depending on its karma from its previous life.
How does karma and dharma relate to reincarnation?
According to Hinduism, karma is seen as a person’s actions bringing about either positive or negative results in the current life or in a future life through reincarnation. Dharma refers to religious law, moral duty and the essential character of the cosmos, as well as a person’s individual nature.
Why is there a long period between death and rebirth?
This process used to take huge time so the period between death and rebirth is quite long. When soul became very old then it also degraded to eighty four lakh animal or other deteriorated life forms and could not reborn as human soul that means soul had lost all its energy to reincarnate as human soul.
Why do some souls not take birth in their desired places?
The souls who are supposed to take birth as per their karmic bondages at certain places, they are also not able to take birth in their desired places due to the competition of other souls belonging to other galaxies or universes who intruded our Brahmand forcibly.
Is there any law for taking rebirth in the spirit world?
Now there are no systematic guidelines or laws in spirit world for taking birth as a human life on earth whereas there was specific spiritual guideline existed earlier in our Brahmand for rebirth and death etc. Anant: That means there is no power of free will of a soul to take rebirth.
What does it mean to be reborn in Buddhism?
It can mean that, but it can also refer to a transformation to a different state. Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes criticized even by other schools of Buddhism for its tradition of recognizing reborn masters, because this suggests that a soul, or some distinctive essence of a particular individual, was reborn.