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| September 1, 2010 | Interest in concept of reincarnation growing across the world, reports New York Times | |
Nevada (US): The Hindus have welcomed the reportedly growing global interest in the concept of reincarnation, Lisa Miller, religion editor for Newsweek magazine, writes in the August 27 edition of The New York Times on 'Remembrances of Lives Past'. According to a report by Washington-based prestigious Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life a few months back, '24 percent Americans believe in reincarnation, that people
will be reborn in this world again and again'. Noted Hindu statesman Rajan Zed,
in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was kind of endorsement of
an age old Hindu concept by the non-Hindus which we had been stressing all
along. Zed invited the world to look deeper into the rich philosophical thought
which Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, offered. Zed,
who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, says that ancient Prashna Upanishad
and Amritabindu Upanishad talk about rebirth. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad explains
it beautifully: As a caterpillar, reaching the tip of a blade of grass, draws
itself together and reaches out for a new foothold, so the Self, having come to
the end of one life and letting go of ignorance, gathers in his faculties and
reaches out from the old body to a new. Rajan Zed points out that Lord Krishna
tells in Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord): As a man casts off worn-out clothes
and takes new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the
Self, who lives within...Death is inevitable for those who are born, birth is
certain for the dead...You and me have passed through many births, Arjuna. You
have forgotten, but I know them all...Striving with great effort over many lifetimes,
a person becomes purified of all selfish desires and attains the highest goal
of life... Zed further says that even Rig-Veda, oldest existing scripture of the
mankind, talks about dead man getting a new body. Law Code of Manu references
the process of rebirth, recalling former birth, previous life, effect of sins
on rebirth, etc. |
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