Reincarnation: There is Life after Death

The process of reincarnation 

The concept of reincarnation has been giving an attractive meaning to life after death of human. Maybe you might have a thought of how many lives before this one and most probably there are more to come. In another hand, reincarnation is source of great comfort and especially for those who seek liberation in them. Major reason for people accepting reincarnation is that it explains the differences that exist among them. Some are healthy whereby other lose life being handicaps. Some are rich, other is poor in starvation. Reincarnation always been the perfect way to punish and reward one's deed for GOD.

Past-life recall proof for reincarnation

Past-life recall actually an ability of certain individual to recall facts or incidents that alleged in their previous lives. This phenomenon occurs in two way, One it happens when an individual is under hypnosis, a process of past-life regression; another way is by vivid-like dreams where they spontaneously remember their previous life identity.

Hypnotic regression 

Hypnosis is a method of inducing an altered state of consciousness, which causes an individual to be more receptive to the hypnotist's suggestions. This method is used in psychoanalysis for treating psychic diseases by evoking the painful memories which took place in past normally during their childhood. Recently, this method has been used as therapy for releasing patient's fears and explaining certain personality tendencies result from past-life experiences. The hypnotist simply asks to go back in time beyond the date of their birth and describe the situation of their vision, some patients tend to tell quite an impressive stories which some matches those past and distant culture of human history. During the session, the patient tend to adopt a different personality, with changed voice, behavior and facial expression.

Karma and Reincarnation in Hinduism

Hinduism introduced the laws of karma and reincarnation as central of belief. Karma is the law of action and reaction which governs a life or an individual throughout his days on earth. It is believed the soul carries its memories together during his lifetime on earth no matter its good or bad. Karma simply means "deed or act" which describes the consequences of the action. Karma is not fate which is written by God on an individual but it is the power to act with free will. For example, when you accidentally pour hot water on your hands, you feel the pain. Action is when you pour the hot water on your hand and the consequence is you feel the pain and injured. Some of the action taken in this life, may not return the consequence directly. But, it will affect you in your next life. Assuming you cause pain to others, previous action you did will return to you and you will feel the same pain. No matter the pain inflicted was emotional, mental or physical, it will still get to you the same way. If you noticed in real-life situation, even good people suffer; they might be paying for some bad action that have done in the past life. Karma is movement in the mind. When the mind remains motionless, there is no karma lives behind. Every action has its consequences. If you plant apple tree, you get apple. If you do good, you get good deeds back. If do bad, you will reap evil.

Cycle of Samsara

The concept of reincarnation is the belief that life does not end at the death of the physical body. 
The body is impermanence but the soul is permanent. Our soul lives in a counterpart of our physical body which is known the astral body. The astral body is made of astral matter and resides in a world called the Devaloka or the Holy Second World. The soul lives on in another body after death, the astral body. Upon reaching the right time, according to its karma, it will reborn into a flesh body. Thus, the soul gets a new physical body. This same cycle is repeated many times until the soul spiritually unfolds and reaches a certain state of perfection or mature evolution. These repeated cycles of births and deaths are known as samsara. Each time the soul passes from one body to another the soul is reincarnated. Therefore, for a Hindu death is not fearsome. The process of reincarnation works just like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the delicate butterfly. Death does not end our existence and our soul never dies. It is immortal. When we die, the soul leaves the Bhuloka or First World with the physical body, it lives for a while in the Devaloka, the Holy Second World before returning back with new body. There are many-facets of concept of reincarnation. Mostly this concept is used to eliminate the inborn fear of death. For example, for individual who committed suicide it is believed that they will have immediate lesser births and require several lives for the soul to return to the exact evolutionary point that existed at the moment of suicide. The soul must face the still-existing karmic entanglement and resolve it. Thus, the chance to rebirth is slow according to the wheel of samsara. 

The Process of Death

Unwanted fear to face the death as the processes of death and birth is already written for human by God himself. Once there was a sage asking Vyasa, "Who is the companion of a dying man, his father, mother, son or his friends or loved ones? When he leaves his body and goes into the world beyond, who will follow him?". Vyasa replied, "Alone he is born and alone he dies; alone he crosses the dangerous thresholds. When he leaves his body, he weeps for a moment and then he turns his face away and departs to the another world. When he leaves the body, the good 'Dharma' follows him; if he has dharma then he goes to heaven, but if he has a bad 'Adharma' then he goes to hell. As his relatives turn away and depart after burning the body, the karma he has done during his lifetime in earth will follow the soul. If dharma is one's karma then the subtle body 'jive' goes to heaven and become soul 'atman'. If his karma is adharma, then he goes to hell. Assuming if the man has mixed karma dharma and adharma, one has to experience heaven and then in hell. If evil side predominates, most probably the man has to go to hell first then to the heaven and then from hell to an animal's womb. If good predominates, he goes to heaven first then to the hell and then from heaven he will reborn as a human."

The Process of Birth

The process of birth is determined through one's karmic act. After the individual suffered through all the hell and the sinner, the soul is born as man when a woman gets impregnated by a man. Impregnation of a woman takes place from the seed of a man where at the time of falling of the seed a portion of the soul start to grow in the womb, by means of blood. In the womb, the soul remembers all its past lives and his karma, both good and bad, the joys and sorrows of his previous life but during birth the newborn will forget the former lives because of the force of maya.  The roles of the parents in the process of rebirth is important. As stated in Puranas, the child's birth is affected by the karma of the father and the mother; the embryo's physical looks is contributed by the parents. The mother gives hair, nails, skin, flesh and the father gives bones, sinew and bone marrow. The mechanism of karmic transfer is not explained in the Puranas, the transfer of karma in the opposite direction (from child to parent) takes place during life and after the death of the parent. Normally, evil karma is transferred from parent to child directly in present life. Good karma often transferred backwards into the past and into the future, through the devotion of the good child to the evil parent.