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Hinduism: Self, Death and the Afterlife

Reincarnation and the Realms of Rebirth

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Overview

Recall questions on the Hindu account of reincarnation, the teaching used to console the bereaved, the realms of rebirth and the value of human birth.

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Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Process

State the Hindu understanding of reincarnation and the realms of rebirth.

Key term

Which teaching about the atman is used to console the bereaved?

Key term

How does belief in rebirth support the idea that all life is interconnected?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    State the Hindu understanding of reincarnation.

    Model answer

    The same atman leaves one body at death and takes another, as a person puts off worn clothes and puts on new ones.

  2. 2

    Which teaching about the atman is used to console the bereaved?

    Model answer

    That the self is never born and never dies, so only the body has been lost.

  3. 3

    Name the realms into which a being may be reborn.

    Model answer

    Heavenly realms of the gods, the human world, animal and plant life, and the hell realms.

  4. 4

    Why is human birth considered so valuable?

    Model answer

    Only human beings can act deliberately according to dharma and seek liberation, so it is the birth in which real progress is possible.

  5. 5

    What happens to a being who reaches a heavenly realm?

    Model answer

    It enjoys the reward until the merit that earned it is used up, and is then reborn in the world.

  6. 6

    What is naraka?

    Model answer

    Naraka is a hell realm of suffering, understood as a temporary consequence of bad karma rather than eternal punishment.

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