07-23-2006, 01:18 AM
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AS far as I know Hinduism do have a concept of birth, rebirth and many many rebirth till you are born as a Brahmin. When you die as a Brahmin you will reach heaven. Am IÂ corect? If not, correct me.
If I am right , could you please explain why people are reborn?
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The idea of rebirths rests on man desiring and needing to perfect himself to the point of being able to become one with the divine. The stage which best prepares one for this union with the divine is the brahminhood. To be a brahmin is to possess those qualities and virtues that enable one to experience the divinity - to be disciplined, to possess self-control, piety, humility, honesty, strength of character, purity in thought and action, etc., It has nothing to do with the caste into which a person is born, but to do with the qualities that he or she possesses and acquires through the repeated birth cycles. Unfortunately, the guna-based varna system became the birth-based caste system as a result of historical, social and political factors, and not because it is sanctioned in the hindu scriptures. It is unfortunate though the christians have continuously and deliberately misrepresented the caste system as spiritually sanctioned by the hindu scriptures, and exploited it to the maximum for religious conversion reasons.
AS far as I know Hinduism do have a concept of birth, rebirth and many many rebirth till you are born as a Brahmin. When you die as a Brahmin you will reach heaven. Am IÂ corect? If not, correct me.
If I am right , could you please explain why people are reborn?
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The idea of rebirths rests on man desiring and needing to perfect himself to the point of being able to become one with the divine. The stage which best prepares one for this union with the divine is the brahminhood. To be a brahmin is to possess those qualities and virtues that enable one to experience the divinity - to be disciplined, to possess self-control, piety, humility, honesty, strength of character, purity in thought and action, etc., It has nothing to do with the caste into which a person is born, but to do with the qualities that he or she possesses and acquires through the repeated birth cycles. Unfortunately, the guna-based varna system became the birth-based caste system as a result of historical, social and political factors, and not because it is sanctioned in the hindu scriptures. It is unfortunate though the christians have continuously and deliberately misrepresented the caste system as spiritually sanctioned by the hindu scriptures, and exploited it to the maximum for religious conversion reasons.