Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
There is no mention of earthy reincarnation in the Vedas.
BUDDHISM
In India Buddha had the concept which is difficult to call trans-migration. The theory of Buddha
was that all parts of man - the body, soul and spirit will re-turn to their elementary forms and
new life forms will evolve out of that. Thus soul in the sense the identity of a person will not be
reborn. There is no eternal “soul,” “spirit” or “self” but only a “stream of consciousness” that
links life with life. The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava
(Sanskrit) or punabbhava (Pāli), literally “becoming again,” or more briefly bhava, “becoming.”
The body will return to dust, the spirit will return to spirit realm as its dust. If soul has any parts
and a substance that too will decompose and form dust of the soul dimension. It can be
compared to rebuilding a car from all the different parts of the cars from a junkyard.
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