Reincarnation - what is it? Religious and scientific approaches
Term meaning
Repetitive births and deaths, permanentreincarnation from life to life - that's what reincarnation is. Past life in this mystical process plays an important role. When a physical body dies, some subtle matter remains. Perhaps this is our mind, consciousness. In one way or another, the whole volume of accumulated thoughts, feelings, ideas, beliefs that stretch a thread between the past and future life of the being is preserved. The way a person has lived his previous being determines the well-being of his subsequent births.
In religions that postulate a permanentreincarnation of the soul in a new life, very strict karmic law. No action, no act of a living being is left without attention "from above." A strict consecutive law is subject to reincarnation. What is this law? Throughout his life, a person acts in one way or another, and all information about his actions is "recorded" by a silent logist. In the next birth, a living being receives such a destiny, the physical body and mind that he deserves from the results of his past life. In Vedic literature, the fact remains unquestionable - the reincarnation of the soul is an immutable law of the existence of the whole world. No one will argue: everything that has a birth has death. Therefore, everything that dies is once again born. The law of reincarnation is subject to absolutely all living beings, and by the results of their being they can claim either a higher form of life in the next birth or a less developed one.
Is the cycle of samsara infinite?
Many religious trends that put forward the ideareincarnation of the soul, try to answer questions: reincarnation - what is it, is it an endless process? The answer is quite difficult. On the one hand, it is logical to assume that there is a kind of "ideal ending" when the being rightly passes from life to life, transforming itself into more and more perfect forms, and finally reaches a certain apogee of development and completes its cycle with a permanent blissful state. On the other hand, it is impossible to imagine such an ideal state of the highest form of development. Although, perhaps, we have not yet reached that level of enlightenment, when we can realize this option.
The idea of permanent reincarnation finds itsreflection in transpersonal psychology, namely in the ideas of Carl Jung regarding the collective unconscious. This concept is fully consistent with reincarnation - that it is a kind of accumulation in the human unconscious of the deep images transmitted to it by its ancestors (and perhaps by themselves in past births). In addition, science finds it difficult to disprove the existence of an immortal soul when faced with facts when people remember their past lives and even provide information that they could not have been aware of from any other sources.
