A good topic for discussion. Rebirth. The fact that a few religions don't believe in it whereas a few others believe shows that the answer is not that easy. It is not like 2+2 which can be proved beyond doubt for everyone to follow. It is slightly different.
It is a matter of indepth study and personal understanding. A study of old scriptures leaves no doubts about the concept of rebirth.
Though most of the individual instances of rebirth can be explained para-psychologically, and re-incarnation has not been conclusively proved by western science so far; yet no theory, or experiment or religion has disproved rebirth or re-incarnation.
Science has not been able to prove rebirth but logic shows there has to be something like re-incarnation to explain a whole lot of phenomenon in this world. Why this disparity? Why a child is born with a silver spoon and other on a heap of garbage as a destitute?
What happens to a sinner? Why should we do good? When will be the day of judgement?..... a lot of such questions are there which can not be satisfactorily answered without the concept of rebirth.
Thanks for bringing up the topic. It would be interesting to discuss the topic.
18 July 2012
