AP PSYCHOLOGY

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MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ teachings are very clear about the qualities that must be manifested to avoid reincarnation:“Returning to this world is an indication of one’s failure to attain higher self-knowledge”
A
Hinduism
B
Buddhism
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Reincarnation forms one of the foundations of religious mysticism. It is a basic tenet of both Hinduism and Buddhism, which teach that the soul of every person and plant is eternal and returns, after death, in another form (Drury, 1985.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical belief 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major religions that hold a belief in reincarnation, however, are Asian religions, especially Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, all of which arose in India.

Detailed explanation-4: -They follow the idea of reincarnation which means that the soul is indestructible and repeatedly takes on a physical body until moksha. Moksha is a term in Hinduism which refers to the various forms of liberation or release which occurs when the cycle of dying and rebirth ends.

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