What is Reincarnation?
The word reincarnate means to “reenter the flesh.” We Hindus believe the soul is immortal and keeps reentering a fleshy body time and time again in order to resolve experiences and thereby learn all the lessons life in the material world has to offer. Hindus believe in reincarnation. To them, it explains the natural way the soul evolves from immaturity to spiritual illumination.
As it was stated in question #6, each action creates a reaction. This is the Universal Law of Cause and Effect. When we act, we are responsible to the universe in dealing with the reaction. This is the Law of Karma. Sometimes the reaction does not come back to us for a long, long time. It may take a couple of thousand years. Some, if not most, karmas created while on the physical plane must be dealt with and corrected on the physical plane. This is why the average person incarnates 800 to 1200 times as explained in question #7. So, reincarnation is the process of coming back to the physical plane to express the knowledge that we already have through the choices we make. While we are here, we create karma and that often requires coming back in another incarnation. Now, this brings up two questions: why did we incarnate the first time to begin with, and what does this world have to offer us? We had to incarnate at least once because there is a Universal Law that states that man must expr
