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The twin beliefs of karma and reincarnation are among
Hinduism's many jewels of knowledge. Others include dharma or our pattern of
religious conduct, worshipful communion with God and Gods, the necessary
guidance of the Sat Guru, and finally enlightenment through personal
realization of our identity in and with God. So the strong-shouldered and
keen-minded rishis knew and stated in the Vedas.
Read more here: » Hinduism: KARMA and REINCARNATION |
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 |  |  | Karma and Reincarnation: What is the process of reincarnation?What is the process of reincarnation?
Carnate means flesh. The word reincarnate means to "reenter
the flesh." We Hindus believe the soul is immortal and keeps reentering a
fleshy body time and time again in order to resolve experiences and thereby
learn all the lessons life in the material world has to offer. To hindus, it
explains the natural way the soul evolves from immaturity to spiritual
illumination. I myself have had many lives before this one and expect to have
more. Finally, when I have it all worked out and all the lessons have been
learned, I will attain mukti. This means I will still exist but no longer be
pulled back to incarnate in a physical body.
Read more here: » Hinduism: What is the process of reincarnation? |
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 |  |  | Karma and Reincarnation: What Becomes Of The Soul After DeathThe death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. We want to now the truth behind near death experiences and become certain that there really is a life after death.
What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj is a departure from the usual line in that it is based, to a great extent, upon authoritative scriptural texts and upon knowledge derived through reasoning, deep reflection and personal meditation. It throws a flood of light upon all aspects of life after death not adequately dealt with in other works. The book also gives valuable information about the different beliefs on this subject, of the various races and religions.
The book is dealing with rebirth, the soul, reincarnation, moksha, heaven and hell, karma and different lokas,. It even includes death poems and death poetry, giving a complete picture and a new face of death. Read more here: » Life after death: What Becomes Of The Soul After Death |
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Hindu -
Hinduism Dictionary on Reincarnation
reincarnation: "Re-entering the flesh." Punarjanma; metempsychosis. The process wherein souls take on a physical body through the birth process. Reincarnation is one of the fundamental principles of Hindu spiritual insight, shared by the mystical schools of nearly all religions, including Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism (and even by Christianity until it was cast out by the Nicene Council in 787). It is against the backdrop of this principle of the soul's enjoying many lives that other aspects of Hinduism can be understood. It is a repetitive cycle, known as punarjanma, which originates in the subtle plane (Antarloka), the realm in which souls live between births and return to after death. Here they are assisted in readjusting to the "in-between" world and eventually prepared for yet another birth. The quality and nature of the birth depends on the merit or demerit of their past actions (karma) and on the needs of their unique pattern of development and experience (dharma). The mother, the father and the soul together create a new body for the soul. At the moment of conception, the soul connects with and is irrevocably bound to the embryo. As soon as the egg is fertilized, the process of human life begins. It is during the mid-term of pregnancy that the full humanness of the fetus is achieved and the soul fully inhabits the new body, a stage which is acknowledged when the child begins to move and kick within the mother's womb. (Tirumantiram, 460: "There in the pregnant womb, the soul lay in primordial quiescence [turiya] state. From that state, Maya [or Prakriti] and Her tribe aroused it and conferred consciousness and maya's evolutes eight- desires and the rest. Thus say scriptures holy and true.") Finally, at birth the soul emerges into earth consciousness, veiled of all memory of past lives and the inner worlds. The cycle of reincarnation ends when karma has been resolved and the Self God (Parasiva) has been realized. This condition of release is called moksha. Then the soul continues to evolve and mature, but without the need to return to physical existence. How many earthly births must one have to attain the unattainable? Many thousands to be sure, hastened by righteous living, tapas, austerities on all levels, penance and good deeds in abundance. See: reincarnation, evolution of the soul, karma, moksha, nonhuman birth, samsara, soul.
(See
also: Reincarnation ,
Hinduism,
Body Mind and Soul)
For more dictionary entries, see » Karma And Reincarnation Dictionary |
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 |  |  | Karma and Reincarnation: Do Hindus worship idols?Hinduism: Do Hindus worship idols?
No, Hindus are not idol worshippers in the sense implied. They
are intelligent people, and intelligent people do not worship stones or
statues. Hindus invoke the presence of great souls living in higher
consciousness into stone images so that we can feel the presence of God. Though
we may have a stone image of a God, we are invoking the physical presence of
the God into the stone image to bless us. Invocations of this nature can be
performed by invoking God's presence in a fire, or in a tree, or in the
enlightened person of a Sat Guru.
Read more here: » Hinduism: Do Hindus worship idols? |
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 |  |  | Karma and Reincarnation: Meaning and Definition of KarmaKarma has quite a karma. Long after India's seers immortalized
it in the Vedas, it suffered bad press under European missionaries who belittled
it as "fate" and "fatalism," and today finds itself again
in the ascendancy as the subtle and all-encompassing principle which governs
man's experiential universe in a way likened to gravity's governance over the
physical plane. Like gravity, karma was always there in its fullest potency,
even when people did not comprehend it.
Read more here: » Karma: Meaning and Definition of Karma |
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 |  |  | Karma and Reincarnation: The Law Of KarmaKarma means not
only action, but also the result of an action. The consequence of an action is
really not a separate thing. It is a part of the action, and cannot be divided
from it. Breathing, thinking, talking, seeing, hearing, eating, etc., are
Karmas. Thinking is mental Karma. Karma is the sum total of our acts both in
the present life and in the preceding births.
Any deed, any
thought that causes an effect, is called a Karma. The Law of Karma means the
law of causation. Wherever there is a cause, there an effect must be produced.
A seed is a cause for the tree which is the effect. The tree produces seeds and
becomes the cause for the seeds.
Excerpt from
All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda
Read more here: » Karma: The Law Of Karma |
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 |  |  | Karma and Reincarnation: Karma YogaKarma Yoga - The Yoga of Action
Karma yoga joins both the physical and
mental aspects of Hindu philosophy to produce a single concept. It believes
that the present relies on the past and that in turn, with your actions, you
can alter the future. Selflessness is a primary requirement for karma practice.
Steering your actions towards the good Ð saying good, thinking good, doing good
will all facilitate selflessness. Acting this way eliminates egoistic and
negative behaviour and enables you to influence your destiny.
Read more here: » Yoga Branches: Karma Yoga |
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