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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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the belief that your thoughts and actions will have an impact on your life
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the belief that after death most people are reborn as another living thing
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the belief that you will go straight to heaven if you live a moral life
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the belief that the Ganges will help you reach Nirvana
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Detailed explanation-1: -reincarnation, also called transmigration or metempsychosis, in religion and philosophy, rebirth of the aspect of an individual that persists after bodily death-whether it be consciousness, mind, the soul, or some other entity-in one or more successive existences.
Detailed explanation-2: -In areas of the world where reincarnation is accepted, one can identify three forms of pre-natal and/or post-mortem identity: the continuing self/soul, the dissolution of the self, and family identity. Comparable concepts within the contemporary West might be labelled modern, postmodern and kin-based.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reincarnation is a key belief within Hinduism. In Hinduism, all life goes through birth, life, death, and rebirth and this is known as the cycle of samsara . According to this belief, all living things have an atman, which is a piece of Brahman, or a spirit or soul.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reincarnation is a mainstream teaching in Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. But fewer than half of Indians in each of these groups say they believe in reincarnation. For example, 40% of India’s Hindus believe in reincarnation.