Rebirth!!! It is always a topic which generates great interest. People are always curious to discuss about this and present their arguments (both favoring and non-favoring) for this concept.
I once again state that I am purely expressing my view on the same here. I believe that this concept is true and also not only limited to earth but to many different worlds too!!!! I have few reasons to believe so.... Will share them at the end.
First, when you look at rebirth, many religions support the concept. Atheists do not generally believe in rebirth but even among them, not everyone. Hinduism strongly believes in rebirth. Almost all of our stories and theories revolve around this concept. We have super simple words to explain this difficult concept. Some among them are "karma" and "punarabi jananam punarabi maranam"
For those who do not believe in this concept, I encourage them to relate this topic to the third law of Newton "For every action, there is an equal or opposite reaction". Do not worry about equal or opposite reaction. Just consider that for every action there is a reaction and that is unavoidable. In such a case, is it logical to believe that a human being (even though all living beings go into the cycle of rebirth, let us only consider human beings here) performing millions of actions during his whole life time to vanish just like that without any traces of consequences? Is it possible?
Some might say that without rebirth, those souls are waiting to get their sins punished or good deeds rewarded (heaven and hell concept) and then they travel to the path of salvation. If we consider this as true, then every human being (only talking about humans again) take birth for the first time, spend their life in whatever manner they want, get punished or rewarded after death and then attain salvation. If that is the case, why do we have to see a lot of discrimination when a child is born. One is born wealthy and one poor, one healthy and one disabled, one with all relatives and one as an orphan and so on.... Isn't it unfair? What reason other than rebirth can you say for these discrimination? This explanation is given by Maha Periyava for the question of rebirth.....
Now let me tell my perception on this. I believe in this general concept of rebirth according to Hinduism, where a person after his life goes to heaven (for getting rewards) or hell (for getting punishments) and then take birth again. Heaven and Hell are different Lokas and I will present an article for these Lokas soon... Many of our emotional thoughts are also associated with rebirth like our instant like/hatred on someone whom we are meeting for the first time, feeling vary familiar to a place where we have not gone before etc.. Is this rebirth concept only limited to Earth? This is where I have different thoughts.
As you know, there are different time period for different worlds. For instance, one human year is one day for the Devas. One day of Brahma is 4.3 billion human years (Brahma lives 100 years according to this time metric). So Demigods through Brahma also have lifespan which includes Birth and Death. So where do they go after their life? Are they just vanishing or going to upper worlds stage by stage? Also we have heard about இந்திர பதவி, பிரம்ம பதவி etc. Even in one of the spiritual discourses of Velukkudi Krishnan, he mentioned "வியாச பதவி". This clearly indicates that different people come to the same post (பதவி). So where do the old people (who were in that post before) go? Have they taken different form in different world and is this process called rebirth for them? Please consider this திருக்குறள் also :
"வையத்துள் வாழ்வாங்கு வாழ்பவன் வானுறையும்
தெய்வத்துள் வைக்கப் படும்"
If a human being can ascend to upper world as Deva or descend to lower world as Asura (apart from rebirth in this same Earth) why can't they (celestial beings) also ascend or descend to different worlds according to their karma? (actions) Different worlds are different Lokhas. May be yes, May be no.... It is only my perception.
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