Hindu Believe In Reincarnation

To begin with, I believe in reincarnation and its Karma that goes with it. For example, the Hindus believe in Karma. They believe that good actions will create good karma and bad actions will create bad Karma. “Karma is not assigned or regulated by any god; it is earned by an individual and passed down through subsequent lives” (Dowdey 2). Basically, every person has their own karma either while they are still alive or after they die, karma does not go away. Good karma can get a person a higher rank in life in the future: if right now they are a homeless person and they are showing nothing but good actions, in the next life they can be the king or the queen and rule the world. They can be the Brahmin, the highest person in Hinduism, as they call it. On the other hand, fate could change bad for an individual. Right now, they could be the richest person alive but they have bad manners and they are disrespectful, they can go to the lowest rank and be a homeless person in the next life; As they call it in Hinduism, the Chandalas or the untouchable ones, their rank is so low that no one would want to touch them or near them. …show more content…
For instance, in order to reach salvation, an individual must suffer first. “Like Hindus, Buddhists see unenlightened samsara as a state of suffering. Only when we achieve a state of total passiveness and free ourselves from all desire can we escape samsara and achieve nirvana (salvation)” (Dowdey 3). They also believe in the Eightfold Path on how to achieve the nirvana: correct view, correct intention, correct speech, correct action, correct livelihood, correct effort, correct mindfulness and correct concentration. In the Buddhist story, The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, taught the Eightfold Path and soon reached enlightenment. He did not just reached this easily, he had to suffer from not eating and starving himself to death and to reach this enlightenment that he was aiming