Should You Believe in Reincarnation?
There was a Greek philosopher named Plato who associated falling in love with reincarnation. His reason was that after death, the soul, migrates to what has been called the “realm of pure forms.” It remains bodiless while it contemplates the next form to change to. When the time has come for the soul to reincarnate into another body, the soul subconsciously remembers and yearns for the realm of forms. Plato believed that people fall in love because they see in their beloved the ideal form of beauty they just about remember and seek.
The above is what Plato believed in. But what is the actual teaching? Is there really reincarnation? Or is it just a lie perpetrated by a man to instill fear in his subjects. Let’s consider these points carefully.
The teaching of reincarnation requires that the soul be immortal. Who was it that began this teaching? Some people think it was Egypt, whiles others thought it was Babylonia. People thought is was Babylonia because its priesthood advanced the doctrine of transmigration of the soul. They did this because they wanted to hold onto the belief that the Gods they worshiped wee reincarnations of notable, long dead, ancestors. In reality, it was India who began the belief and spread it. The Hindus sages couldn’t understand why there was evil in the world and that humans suffered. They just couldn’t accept the fact that there was a God. Why would a God of love allow such conditions to exist. Here was a god of righteousness and a world of unrighteousness. There would seem to be a conflict between good and evil. The only rational explanation they could come up with was “the law of karma,” which you may know as the law of cause and effect. They went by the