WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Individuals can be reborn as animals, human beings or insects depending upon the depletion of evil karmas and maturing of good karmas. As stated by Buddha, bad conduct (duccaritam) leads to hell or rebirth as an animal or ghost while good conduct (kalyanam) leads to birth in heaven or as a human being (Krishan 1983).

Detailed explanation-2: -Lacking proper knowledge, each soul is stuck in a cycle of reincarnation called samsara, in which each is born into a variety of physical bodies, including that of plants and animals. From body to body, and species to species, each soul lives one lifetime after the next, all the while ignorant of its Divine nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Hindu belief in reincarnation is connected to the Hindu belief in karma, which is the belief that our soul (atman) bears the impression of every good and bad deed we perform while we’re alive. If the sum of our deeds is positive, we are reborn into a higher level.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are three different types of karma: prarabdha, sanchita, and kriyamana or agami.