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After the biological death of one, the soul takes birth again in a new bodily form.
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In which month of pregnancy does a soul enter a new body (foetus)?
When I was going through this question and this question I found out that after the death of a body, the soul has three choices: heaven, hell and moksha.
It is said that if soul/atma left the body ...
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What were the previous births of the characters of Mahabharata?
There is a very interesting story about Karna being an Asura named as Dambhodbhava.
Quora: Who was Karna in his previous birth?. Arjuna-Krishna being Nara-Narayana kids, who fought with Dambhodbhava.
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Does the karma from the previous life affect the current life?
I was reading this post recently where @jabahar explains about Are people always reborn as people? where user answers as —
Depending upon karma a jivatma (spirit) may reborn in the body of
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What is the life cycle of a soul (atma) in Hinduism?
I am confused about the life cycle in Hinduism.
What is the starting point of a soul?
Yes, a soul exchanges bodies, but when does a soul take birth and how will fate be written to it (as it has no ...
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Does rebirth or reincarnation occur in Hinduism?
How is the concept of rebirth or reincarnation handled in Hinduism?
Does it occur?
Will everyone be reborn?
Are people always reborn as people?
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Why do we need Yamalokam?
Given that Karma and punarjanma (rebirth) are the prime beliefs of Hinduism, why do we need Yamalokam and punishment in it?
I mean, through Karma, the fruits of both good and bad deeds are obtained ...
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When does a soul lose its memory of its previous birth?
I have studied in our texts that a soul will have the memory of its previous births after death, and before birth. My question is when does the soul lose its memory when entering into a body for a ...
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Can animals attain moksha?
Can animals attain Moksha or do that have to take human birth to attain Moksha ?
There is this story of Gajendra Moksha where an elephant gets Moksha. Is it just a special case or is it possible by ...
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How can one know about their previous births?
How do I know what I was in my previous births?
There are many stories in Hindu mythology that mention the previous births of people. But my question is, even in those earlier times and in this ...
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What will happen to a youth who wants to enjoy life as well as continuing spiritual efforts?
Maya is very treacherous. No one knows it better than a youth perhaps, who feels a strong attraction towards young life (fun, party, entertainment, sex, food, clothes, ...); Basically all materialism, ...
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How can heaven-hell concept and rebirth concept both be true?
In the heaven-hell concept, pious go to Swarga (heaven) and sinners go to Naraka (hell). However, if one has good/bad karma, the rebirth concept says that he/she will enjoy/suffer in their next births....
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Are new souls created? [duplicate]
According to Hinduism, Reincarnation (Rebirth) does occur, but it is somewhat related to Karma. Also, I felt that Human is ultimate species in Hinduism, so now the question arises that does god create ...
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Is reincarnation or rebirth mentioned in the Vedas (Samhitas)?
Reincarnation is a concept of Hinduism mentioned in the Upanishads, Puranas, Bhagavad Gita, but I could not find its mention in the Veda Samhitas.
Is it mentioned in the four Vedas, that is in the ...
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Does prayer remove bad deeds of past lives?
If this birth is based on the deeds of our previous life, then our destiny is pre-determined. So, there is no need for god unless prayer offered to him will erase the bad deeds.
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Do children accumulate karma? At what age are you responsible for your karma?
If I do a bad karma without knowing or realizing properly will I receive fruits for that or not?
What about children? Do they accumulate karma too? Don't they make lot of mistakes unknowingly?
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How does the Yogi Remember his previous births?
The Yogi has the knowledge of all incarnations.
How does he dissolve the veils of separation from one incarnation to the next?
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Is there heaven/hell in between death and rebirth?
According to Hinduism,
What happens between death and rebirth?
Does the soul go to heaven/hell in between?
If so, does rebirth occur irrespective of whether the soul went to heaven or hell?
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Karma & Rebirth: If you're too attached to your pet and are reborn as that pet, what happens to your karma?
According to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam a.k.a Bhāgavata Purāṇa, King Bharata a.k.a Jaḍa Bharata was reborn as a deer at some point because he was too attached to the deer which he adopted when it was still ...
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Did Vasishta's brother sage Agastya have a previous birth?
Most people only know about the fact the famous sage Vasishta, guru of Rama, was one of the mind-born sons of Brahma. What's not as well-known, however, is the fact that Vasishta is no longer the son ...
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Is Life after Moksha possible?
Is it possible to re-enter the birth and death cycle of life after one has achieved Moksha/Nirvana ?
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Why man is mortal irrespective of good or bad activity?
Why man is mortal? Suppose one person is very religious and very responsible family person as well.He is very much dedicated/ respectful to god and he loves his family very much and he don't want to ...
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Does re-birth take place immediately after death according to Hinduism?
I would like to know if re-birth take place immediately after the death according to Hinduism? Some people say, if the man has done some good karma, he will be gone to heaven and then enjoy the ...
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Is human the ultimate species according to Hinduism?
Is human the ultimate species according to Hinduism? This is somewhat related to karma, hence is it considered ultimate to be reborn as a human?
An individual can be reborn as any species based on ...
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Do any scriptures say that the hunter Jara was a rebirth of Vali?
As I discuss in this answer, Krishna departed the Earth after he was shot by a hunter named Jara. Now there's a popular story that this Jara was actually the next birth of Sugriva's brother Vali, ...
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"Cows are sacred" & at the same time "It's only a sinful soul which gets born as an animal" - How to deal with this apparent contradiction?
On one hand we have the cows considered as the most sacred in the scriptures. All deities, pilgrimages, Rishis are said to be found in it's body.
Giving it pain is considered as an offence. Killing ...
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Do we take rebirth if we help others?
Lord Krishna told us to surrender to him and do our duties for him and not for dharma and adharma and if we do it (for dharma or adharma) we will take rebirth to take the effects of good deed or bad ...
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Is it possible for one to have animal birth after human birth?
If a person i.e., a human form dies, then is it possible for him to have his next birth as an animal per his pāpa or puṇya?
The reason I'm asking this question is, I came across the theory below.
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Is there any ancient story in which individuals are born in the opposite sex in the rebirth?
Hindus believe in rebirth. We have several ancient stories on that. In many of our stories, if a male or a female dies, he or she takes rebirth in the same sex.
Is there any story in our mythology in ...
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How many times jeeva gets human birth?
As per Hinduism we get 84 lakh yoni time birth on this earth. So how many times we get birth as human being ? is it true that we get human birth only once out of 84 lakh yoni ?
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Is there any incarnation of God currently living among us?
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Swami Vivekananda are said to be incarnations of God. Is there any such incarnation currently living among us?
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Does Karma of our previous lives determine the lifetime of our present birth?
Karma gives the situation, parents, physical body,etc,... to a soul according to type of Karma that it accumulated.
Living beings face untimely death and face unexpected problems in which they didn't ...
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Why do bad things happen to good people?
I have seen many instances where bad things have happened to good people. And to make it worse, the bad people prospered and progressed while the good people seemed to struggle every day for their ...
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Unlimited reincarnations before moksha or only 7?
I believe most learned Hindus understand re-incarnation as a continuous process till the Jivatma attains the qualifications required for Moksha. But there seems to be some traditions within Hinduism ...
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Punishment for sins or rewards for good deeds in previous births, but how do we know?
I have heard that, normally, as we go on committing sins, we earn ourselves multiple births, sometimes as humans and other times as other living beings.
But say someone is born as some being other ...
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What happens to one in afterlife who doesn't believe in God?
What happens to the human in afterlife if he does not believe in any God or any theory related to god?
Do any Vedas mention anything regarding this?
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In Mahabharat who were Dhitrashtra & Pandu incarnations of? [duplicate]
The Sambhava Parva of Mahabharat mentions which gods and demons incarnated on earth at the time of Mahabharat giving details about even obscure kings. Curiously enough it does not mention anything ...
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Why previous births are only known to God and not to humans?
As clearly said by Krishna to Arjuna in Bhagwat Gita, that, "I remember all my previous births but you don't". Then question arises is why God only has that Extra privilege, and why normal human ...
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How many rebirths does a soul go through?
I heard that an Atma (soul) will take 7 births on the earth. Is it true?
If it is true, then seven janma-s apply only for humans or animals or combinations of them?
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According to Hinduism, what do we carry into afterlife and next birth?
In our life we accumulate many things like memories, beliefs, knowledge, etc.
But after death what do we actually carry from current life into afterlife, and what things will fill the next body after ...
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How to ensure one doesn't get to born as animal or plant?
Getting a human birth should be quite rare as the number of organisms in non-human yonis are much much high than human yoni.
How should one ensure that one doesn't fall in animal or plant yoni in his ...
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Does Karma (going from a higher life-form to a lower one) only apply to humans?
As most of you might know that in Hinduism, it is believed that you and every other living thing consist of two things one is "a soul" which is indestructible, true and reality. No harm can be done to ...
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Do our parents in this birth will be our parents in every birth? Does this cycle revolves?
I want to know if our parents will only be our parents in every birth cycle ?
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How many human births does the soul take before it merges with the Almighty?
The soul passes through a cycle of successive lives (samsara) and its next incarnation i.e., birth is always dependent on how the previous life was lived (karma). Finally, the soul travels back to ...
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Does the fragmental Atman travels?
Shankara in one of his verses gives the definition of jiva -""When the omnipresent Atman is limited or embodied by the mind,ego of subtle body, it is called jiva"".
I think what he means is, once the ...
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What happened to Pandavas in future lives?
Did the Pandavas eventually take rebirth? If they did, who were they and what happened to them?
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If soul gets rebirth into another body, will pinda pradanam and shraddha rituals reach that soul?
I had a big doubt from many years, but didn't get a chance to get it clarified. As we all know punarapi jananam; punarapi maranam from Adi Shankaracharya's Bhaja Govindam which means until all of our ...
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Do gods like Brahma, Vishnu, Indra and Yama, in their Lokas, have bodies or are they just Atmans?
Life after death is found in Hinduism, the Atmans are taken by Yama then they are judged and go either to heaven (abode of Indra) or to hell (abode of Yama), however this residence is temporarily and ...
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Is the Moksha achieved after getting slayed by the Supreme Lord impermanent as in the case of Jaya and Vijaya's first two births?
As per this QnA, anyone killed by the Supreme Lord achieves Moksha.
Then why is it that the cursed Jīvātman of Jaya & Vijaya (the door keepers of God Vishnu's Vaikuntha) had to be re-born not ...
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After a plant dies, will its atma get a human birth directly? [duplicate]
All plants are harmless and they won't be doing any sin during their plant birth.
Then what determines which birth they are going to take up in their next janma?
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How many souls are there in our universe?
When Lord Krishna was advising Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna, Sri Krishna told that no one dies if we kill them.Those who are killed, start their journey as jiva and these jiva cannot be destroyed or ...
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