WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Hinduism, the belief in reincarnation makes it possible for any individual to achieve union with Brahman. Hindus believe that the soul of a person who had not achieved this final union will be reborn in another body over and over again until the final union is achieved. People may be reborn as humans or as animals.

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: -In reincarnation, the spirit or soul survives death and is reborn into a new body, human or nonhuman. Individuals can be reborn as animals, human beings or insects depending upon the depletion of evil karmas and maturing of good karmas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The whole process of rebirth, called samsara, is cyclic, with no clear beginning or end, and encompasses lives of perpetual, serial attachments.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.