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Haran · 04-02-2002, 05:42 PM

Does anyone out there know much about the Hindu (or other) point of view on reincarnation?

Specifically, does a person always come back as a living creature with a soul? Can they come back as a rock or something non-living?

To get straight to the point, if one always comes back as a living creature with a soul, then what happens in the future when the sun begins to expand, life as we know it dies, and the earth is swallowed up in the huge fireball? Does one come back as a planet? A star? A piece of space junk?

Just curious.

Thanks,
Haran

echidna · 04-02-2002, 05:51 PM

For a laugh I once went along to a channelling session run the mother of a friend of mine. Apparently I have 3 spirit guides and have had previous incarnations as a rock and an intelligent gas.

Which delights me no end, because I would have been devastated if I�d been a stupid gas.

04-02-2002, 05:54 PM

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Originally posted by Haran:
Does anyone out there know much about the Hindu (or other) point of view on reincarnation?

By definition we are the incarnate children of our parents and renincarnate children of our grandparents and so on, and so on.

Anybody who beliefs something else is wrong in his belief regardless if we are Hindu or Christian.

"Flesh of may flesh and bone of my bones" is the required condition for re-incarantion.

04-02-2002, 05:55 PM

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Originally posted by echidna:
Which delights me no end, because I would have been devastated if I�d been a stupid gas.

We have Shirley MacLean make millions on a movie about it and we just love it.

hinduwoman · 04-02-2002, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by Haran:
Does anyone out there know much about the Hindu (or other) point of view on reincarnation?

Specifically, does a person always come back as a living creature with a soul? Can they come back as a rock or something non-living?

To get straight to the point, if one always comes back as a living creature with a soul, then what happens in the future when the sun begins to expand, life as we know it dies, and the earth is swallowed up in the huge fireball? Does one come back as a planet? A star? A piece of space junk?

Just curious.

Thanks,
Haran

In Hinduism you can come back as a non-living creature and still have a soul.

They did not know much about entropy so it was not really their concern. But there is the belief that when apocalypse comes, individual souls will be merged with the Cosmic Soul.

Haran · 04-03-2002, 04:11 AM

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Originally posted by echidna:
For a laugh I once went along to a channelling session run the mother of a friend of mine. Apparently I have 3 spirit guides and have had previous incarnations as a rock and an intelligent gas.

Which delights me no end, because I would have been devastated if I?d been a stupid gas.

ROTFL! An intelligent gas?!

I like that...

Haran

Haran · 04-03-2002, 04:14 AM

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Originally posted by hinduwoman:
In Hinduism you can come back as a non-living creature and still have a soul.

They did not know much about entropy so it was not really their concern. But there is the belief that when apocalypse comes, individual souls will be merged with the Cosmic Soul.

Thanks for the info, hinduwoman.

What do they believe the apocalypse is? Do all souls get merged into one when the sun finally absorbs the earth? Or, do they go to rocks on other planets or something?

Sorry, I'm not trying to poke fun. I'm just trying to see for myself how thoughtout and evolved these ideas are.

Thanks,
Haran

Sephiroth · 04-03-2002, 05:20 AM

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Originally posted by Amos:


By definition we are the incarnate children of our parents and renincarnate children of our grandparents and so on, and so on.

Anybody who beliefs something else is wrong in his belief regardless if we are Hindu or Christian.

"Flesh of may flesh and bone of my bones" is the required condition for re-incarantion.

You think you are the reincarnation of your grandad? <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" />

04-03-2002, 07:56 AM

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You think you are the reincarnation of your grandad?

Did you think I was a bastard? or did you maybe think that there is no such thing?

Marduk · 04-03-2002, 03:29 PM

"What do they believe the apocalypse is? Do all souls get merged into one when the sun finally absorbs the earth? Or, do they go to rocks on other planets or something?"

The way I remember it, the cycle of a universe is 20 billion years, Brahma dreams the universe into existence, and all the souls as well, Shiva than takes it apart, (I think, like all the other gods, Shiva is a part of Brahma as well)Than the cycle starts over again, at least that's how it was explaimed to me.
Oppenheimer after watching the first A Bomb explode "I have become Shiva, the destroyer of worlds"

04-02-2002, 05:42 PM	#1
Haran Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Dallas, Tx Posts: 1,490	Belief in Reincarnation Does anyone out there know much about the Hindu (or other) point of view on reincarnation? Specifically, does a person always come back as a living creature with a soul? Can they come back as a rock or something non-living? To get straight to the point, if one always comes back as a living creature with a soul, then what happens in the future when the sun begins to expand, life as we know it dies, and the earth is swallowed up in the huge fireball? Does one come back as a planet? A star? A piece of space junk? Just curious. Thanks, Haran

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echidna Veteran Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,832	For a laugh I once went along to a channelling session run the mother of a friend of mine. Apparently I have 3 spirit guides and have had previous incarnations as a rock and an intelligent gas. Which delights me no end, because I would have been devastated if I�d been a stupid gas.

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Marduk Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: the 10th planet Posts: 5,065	"What do they believe the apocalypse is? Do all souls get merged into one when the sun finally absorbs the earth? Or, do they go to rocks on other planets or something?" The way I remember it, the cycle of a universe is 20 billion years, Brahma dreams the universe into existence, and all the souls as well, Shiva than takes it apart, (I think, like all the other gods, Shiva is a part of Brahma as well)Than the cycle starts over again, at least that's how it was explaimed to me. Oppenheimer after watching the first A Bomb explode "I have become Shiva, the destroyer of worlds"

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