Rebirth & Reincarnation

Busting a myth that has held our minds hostage since long.

-  Ashok Kumar Jain

According to religiou! scriptures, the so enters 84 lakh life yonis), out of which only one is said to be a human birth. And that too is attained if it performs only good deeds and absolutely no evil. Despite the fact, that it is hard to say which creature does only good deeds and no evil ones and thus merits this transition or promotion” to a human birth, we hear of many cases wherein small children claim to recall all the details of their past life. However, the strange thing is that such people claim to have been born as human beings in their past lives too.

Does this mean that a soul can take the form of a human being twice in the appointed 84 lakh lives, and that too, consecutively?

Another peculiarity common to such cases is that such people always claim to have lived their previous life within a radius of a 100 or 200 kilometers of the area where they are living in their present life and never in England or America or any other distant place.

Yet another extraordinary coincidence that mysteriously manifests itself is that such souls always seem to choose” the same religion in both their human incarnations. None of them ever claim to have belonged to a different religion or community in their previous” life.

Apparently, even the sex of the individual did not change. And to cap it all, they even spoke the same language in both lives”!

The questions are: Can anyone really attain the fruit of the deeds they performed in past lives? Can reincarnation actually take place? And above all, can anyone really remember their past lives, if any?

Two Essential Things

According to our religious leaders, a human being needs two things to establish that he is, indeed, alive or living a body and a soul. The scriptures also say that the soul is not the sole property of any one being.