Reincarnation

Reincarnation in Hinduism.

Reincarnationis the religious or philosophical concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions. This doctrine is a central tenet of the Indian religions. It is also a common belief of various ancient and modern religions such as Spiritism, Theosophy, and Eckankar and is found in many tribal societies around the world, in places such as Siberia, West Africa, w:North AmericaNorth America, and Australia. Although the majority of sects within the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam do not believe that individuals reincarnate, particular groups within these religions do refer to reincarnation; these groups include the mainstream historical and contemporary followers of Kabbalah, the Cathars, the Druze, and the w:RosicruciansRosicrucians.

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• In the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a drowned princess, or rather, two hundred reincarnations of a drowned princess.
  • Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine in Last Chance to See, p.192

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• If he came back, Carville said: I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But I now want to comeback as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
  • James Carville noting the power of the bond market during Clinton administration, quoted in Systemic Liquidity Risk and Bipolar Markets: Wealth Management in Today's ..., p.147

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Henry Ford:I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan.

• I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan.
  • Henry Ford, in The Big Book of Reincarnation: Examining the Evidence that We Have All Lived ..., p.121

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Manly Palmer Hall:It [Serpent] is the symbol of reincarnation, or metempsychosis, because it annually sheds its skin, reappearing, as it were, in a new body ...

• It was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the Supreme Creator who periodically reabsorbed His Universe back to Himself.
  • Manly Palmer Hall, in http://books.google.co.in/books?id=huKHs2x2pfQC&pg=PA213 The Secret Teachings of All Ages], p.213

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• The essential metaphysical ideas of Jainism are nine cardinal principles. The universe is divided into that which is alive and conscious (jiva) and matter which is not (ajiva). Jivas (souls) are either caught by karma (action) in the world of reincarnation (samsara) or liberated (mukta) and perfected (siddha).
  • Jainism, in Bhagavan Mahavira and Jain Dharma

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Jiddu Krishnamurti:The whole of Asia believes in reincarnation, in being reborn in another life. When you enquire what it is that is going to be born in the next life.

• The whole of Asia believes in reincarnation, in being reborn in another life. When you enquire what it is that is going to be born in the next life.
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti, in Impossible Question, The

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Sushama Londhe: Many concepts like reincarnation, meditation, yoga and others have found worldwide acceptance. It would not be surprising to find Hinduism the dominant religion of the twenty-first century. It would be a religion that doctrinally is less clear-cut

• Many concepts like reincarnation, meditation, yoga and others have found worldwide acceptance. It would not be surprising to find Hinduism the dominant religion of the twenty-first century. It would be a religion that doctrinally is less clear-cut
  • Sushama Londhe, in Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture, p.254

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• Don’t grieve.
  Anything you lose comes round in another form.
  The child weaned from mother’s milk
  Now drinks wine and honey mixed.
  God’s joys move from unmarked box to unmarked box,
  from cell to cell.
  As rainwater,
  down into flowerbed
  And roses, up from ground.
• Rumi, in In the Letting Go: Words to Heal the Heart on the Death of a Mother, p.113