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RESURRECTION AND REINCARNATION M.M.NINAN founded Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria (ca.1500-1300 BCE). Both groups were rooted in the Andronovo-culture in the Bactria-Margiana era, in present northern Afganistan, and related to the Indo-Iranians, from which they split-off around 1800- 1600 BCE. The Aryan invasion/migration theory has been challenged by some researchers, due to a lack of archaeological evidence and signs of cultural continuity, hypothesizing instead a slow process of acculturation or transformation. Nevertheless, linguistic and archaeological data clearly show a cultural change after 1750 BCE, with the linguistic and religious data clearly showing links with Indo- European languages and religion. According to Singh, "The dominant view is that the Indo-Aryans came to the subcontinent as immigrants." The Vedic beliefs and practices of the pre-classical era were closely related to the hypothesised Proto-Indo-European religion, and the Indo-Iranian religion. According to Anthony, the Old Indic religion probably emerged among Indo-European immigrants in the contact zone between the Zeravshan River (present-day Uzbekistan) and (present-day) Iran. It was "a syncretic mixture of old Central Asian and new Indo-European elements", (Anthony, David W. (2007), The Horse The Wheel And Language. How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World, Princeton University Press ) which borrowed "distinctive religious beliefs and practices" from the Bactria–Margiana Culture. There are indeed no references to reincarnation in the Rig Veda. Or for that matter in the other Vedas (Sama, Yajur and Atharva). <strong>Reincarnation</strong>, or transmigration of the soul, was also known as metempsychosis (Latin through Greek: ‘meta’-after, 29
RESURRECTION AND REINCARNATION M.M.NINAN ‘empsuhkos’- having a soul inside). There are several clear dates and times that will help us determine when this idea appeared. It is very clear that this was a developed idea by the time of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha). (Wyatt Robertson) In the Rig Veda the soul of the dead is carried aloft by the fire-god, Agni, who consumes the material body at cremation, to the heavenly worlds where it disports itself with the gods in perfect, carefree bliss. There will be eating and drinking of heavenly food and drink, reunion with father, mother, wife and sons. Evidently by the time of Buddha, the idea of incarnation was popular at least in the North India. Even in the Greco-Roman world it was develop later and as a science rather than religious philosophy. Thus even in the Rig Veda except in the mandalas One and Ten which were writter late, the idea do not appear. Until then though concepts of material and non-material worlds did exist with life forms in both worlds, those that has Jada (non-gods - Asura) and those that has non-material bodies named devas. Evidently Chapters one and ten has indirect references. For example in chapter 10 we have: “May your spirit return again, to perform pure acts for exercising strength, and to live long to see the sun.” Rig Veda 10.4.57.4 "Each death repeats the death of the primordial man (purusa), which was also the first sacrifice" (RV 10:90). Another excerpt from the Rig Veda states (10: 16. 1-4): "Burn him not up, nor quite consume him, Agni: let not his body or his skin be scattered. O Jatavedas, when thou hast matured him, then send him on his way unto the Fathers... Let thy fierce flame, thy glowing splendour, burn him with thine auspicious forms, O Jatavedas, bear this man to the region of the pious....... 30
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