If we do good in this life then we can improve our station in the next life but what about the sins we still carry around with us.How do we make up for them if we can't even remember them, huh?
Or is the slate wiped clean after we are reincarnated so we can start from scratch?Does reincarnation suffer from an amnesia problem in it's intended functioning?
Re-incarnation and Karma are linked. True. But they are not completely co-dependent.
Re-incarnation occurs as a natural law. A cycle of birth in every life form -through Human life too. Since the consciousness is highest here, it is, obviously, best suited to attain Nirvana through it.
Karma, on the other hand, is simply deeds or actions. Every action that you take - creates a cosmic ripple that is bound to affect you in your future in a small or big way. So Karma is really about "causality" and explores cause and effect.
karmas may be mundane, deliberate, ritualistic/routine, dutiful or vicious/evil. Either way, they create our future for us.
Many of our karmas also affect several others. The sum total of the Karmas that have generated negativity or imbalance or even positivity and are unaccounted for in this life, are brought to fruition in the next.
In that sense, you do begin with a clean slate. Or if you prefer, compare it with a race where some get a head start thanks to previous Karmas.
Personally, I prefer the comparison that we all start off equally but with different backpacks - heavier/lighter, valuable/worthless.
As for memory, that is a trivial physical thing.
In order to strive for perfection and Nirvana/Moksha, you do not need a petty log book of "what I did last time". It is immaterial. For even with the memory, if there is no understanding of what you did wrong, its pointless.
In any case, Memory and Mind are seen as human senses susceptible to flaws. They need to be controlled and subdued.
This is in contrast with western outlook.
For instance - "Manmaani" is a Hindi word suggesting "obeying the mind". It is a negative trait and a flaw.
The closest english interpretation is "follow your desire" which is considered a positive trait !!!
We also don't remember previous incarnations to prevent them interfering wit the current one.
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Does reincarnation suffer from an amnesia problem in it's intended functioning?i think your soul is supposed to remember, but not the body, if teh body does, it kind of interferes with this life, if the soul does, it doesnt interfer
the soul is supposed to learn from this, not our body
its always the soul that lives on, the body always dies
i think its not so we can start from scratch, as the soul knows what hapened, its to give THIS life another chance and to learn from it what ever it was we didnt learn when we made the mistake or whatever
First of all, you cannot stuff the Hindu and Buddhist concept of rebirth into a Christian type concept. In Buddhism there is karma, also known as cause and effect; not sin.
Think of rebirth this way: your mind is like software, your brain is the hardware, depending on what kind of processor (brain) you have depends on how well the program (mind) will run. Further, the mind compresses the memories of past lives. You have to be able to access them.
As far as your karma goes, how you live and what you do in this life could generate merit that will purify past negative karmic actions. If you are serious about learning how to do that for yourself, then check out these sites:
http://www.buddhanet.net
http://www.lamajigme.comDoes reincarnation suffer from an amnesia problem in it's intended functioning?
True that you don't remember abt earlier life.
But you have to get the results of your earlier deeds, whether of this life or of earlier life, if left and not got in that life. The principle of KARM %26amp; FAL (Deeds and Results) is sure and one has to get that, of all deeds - good or bad. Good Results for good deeds and bad results for bad deeds.
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It is never a clean page, but It is like a new page with the gist/summary of all the old pages.
It is not a hard and fast rule to go a linear way. There is no need to remember anything, as our current body/personality reflects the dominant and residual life/nature of early lives. Thus body is the reflection of our nature/soul, once we die our nature is absorbed in the consciousness of the soul to manifest again. This exactly like a singularity manifesting with the form representing that nature gets exercised adds/substracts properties, gets back to that singularity. The next state would be a cleaner state (both good and bad in the memory/senses) , the substractions are the sufferings (incl. of headaches/mental stress) but sometimes rarely 'a few pages in between should be a trashed/'thrown out' as incarnation as lower forms' to produce a next cleaner state. Ultimately, all unclean states/stages are expensed to an 'absolute knowledge' state. [liberation is an absolute state of action, knowledge,dedication and humility ]
P.S:
The concept of soul in Hinduism is not purely the individuality but together with the source/Self/omniscience(Infinite mind of God) of creation, a witness that exercises the karma acc. to situations. Thus, one with good intentions are made to expense all the bad karma in this human life, thus can elevate to higher levels of consciousness in next lives. Such Source makes sure that devolution happens less likely.
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