A Brief Look At Reincarnation
The dictionary meaning of the word ‘reincarnation’ means rebirth. Thus, it refers to one’s soul ‘being born again’ or ‘being flesh again’. Soul, the central seat of all power, energy and emotions of an individual is immortal in nature and it is trapped in the physical body. After the body dies, the soul leaves it and reincarnates in another new one.
Many a times the term reincarnation is used synonymously with that of metamorphosis and resurrection. It must be clarified at the very start that all these three terms differ in their meanings and implications to a considerable extent. While metamorphosis means changing one form of life to another, the Christian term resurrection refers to rise of the body from the dead.
Reincarnation is also known as soul transmigration and has been a concept which has been believed in since the ancient times. Prevalent in both the eastern and western hemispheres of the word during those days, it was part of almost all doctrines that studied the infinite potential of the human soul.
One of the oldest religious scripts on earth known as the Upanishads of the Hindus contain content on reincarnation as a truth of life. The core of this ancient and spiritually advanced religion is the belief in reincarnation and its connection to the ultimate and universal truth of mankind.
Against the backdrop of this, other core aspects of Hinduism like those of Karma, Sadhana, Moksha needs to be mentioned. Karma refers to your deeds in your previous birth which go on to define the quality of life that you have in your present life. The primary theory is that the immortal soul is trapped in a physical body and when the body dies the soul leaves it and travels to the body of another new born reincarnating itself in the process. After numerous births one comes to understand that world is only an illusion and the eternal and deep lasting happiness can be attained only through realization of the ultimate truth.
When after numerous reincarnations you understand that real lasting happiness rests in something else than earthly desires, you start spiritual practice known as ‘Sadhana’ and ultimately realize the ultimate truth that soul is the central seat of all emotions, power and energy and all other things are illusions. It is then that your reincarnation stops and your soul attains the final liberation or ‘Moksha’.
Against Hinduism on one side mention may be made of the Egyptian and the Greek beliefs during that era which run on similar lines with much belief in reincarnation. In case of Egyptians, proof of such belief lies in their embalming dead bodies and the act of preservation in order for it to accompany the immortal animated force of ‘ka’ or spirit to the next world. Similarities can be seen in case of ancient Greek belief where they believed that the souls rested in the underworld after death and before reincarnation for purification. Once absolute purification was attained, the reincarnation cycle stopped.
More contemporary and western belief in reincarnation can be seen in the theosophical doctrine where soul of man is considered to be an ageless, formless, timeless energy that involves in a rhythmic process of manifesting itself in the world to gain experience and know itself and again departs to the higher sublime realms through death to compete this rhythmic process and get manifested once again.
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December 31, 2010 | Posted by Ellaina Mattke
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