WORLD HISTORY

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: -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-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: -Samsara is the cycle of birth and rebirth (or reincarnation), and is governed by how karma is created and balanced. Moksha is liberation from the cycle of samsara.

Detailed explanation-5: -In addition, Hindus believe in the cycle of death and rebirth – the concept of reincarnation, which is called samsara, meaning that a person can be reborn many times, each of his lives determined by his karma, until he achieves the liberation from this cycle of reincarnations, called moksha32.