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Aliens!

Kalidas

Kalidas

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I wonder. Do any of you believe in aliens? Is there anything scriptural that denies their existence? Also reincarnation. How does it work when aliens are involved? Is each planet subject to its own separate cycle of karma and reincarnation?

I know some people have said that some people have been able to find out what they were in a past life. Ever heard of a person say they were an alien? If so what did said alien look like?
 
Kalidas

Kalidas

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Ashoka

Ashoka

श्री कृष्णा शरणं मम
Sure, I believe that there may be life out there somewhere. I don't know where, or when, or even if we will find out. But it would be cool to know.
 
Jainarayan

Jainarayan

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I don't think any scripture of any religion explicitly or even implicitly denies the existence of other worlds and intelligent life, but rather, they implicitly support it.
 
Viraja

Viraja

Jaya Jagannatha!
Hinduism's puranic tales do acknowledge presence of aliens - they are named Yakshas, Kinnaras and Gandharvas. Gandharvas are supposed to be ultra good-looking! Kinnaras to be experts in music, much better than the human race!

In the puranic tale of Renuka, mother of Parasurama, it is described that her chastity became sullied when she saw the reflection in the pond of the divine form of a 'yaksha' playing with his wives and wishing she was in that position with her husband, the rishi Jamadagni. The tale says she was beheading for her sullied chastity thus and then revived, both done by her son Parasurama.

If you could google on Yaksha, Kinnara, Gandharva, I am sure you will find some popular personalities belonging to each type.
 
Kalidas

Kalidas

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Viraja said:
Hinduism's puranic tales do acknowledge presence of aliens - they are named Yakshas, Kinnaras and Gandharvas. Gandharvas are supposed to be ultra good-looking! Kinnaras to be experts in music, much better than the human race!

In the puranic tale of Renuka, mother of Parasurama, it is described that her chastity became sullied when she saw the reflection in the pond of the divine form of a 'yaksha' playing with his wives and wishing she was in that position with her husband, the rishi Jamadagni. The tale says she was beheading for her sullied chastity thus and then revived, both done by her son Parasurama.

If you could google on Yaksha, Kinnara, Gandharva, I am sure you will find some popular personalities belonging to each type.
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Wow never heard of that.
 
bp789

bp789

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I think there are aliens and other life forms out there. I don't know what Hinduism has to say, but I'm pretty sure it supports it. Hinduism says that our universe is not the only universe, and that there are infinitely many universes out there (which I guess would be called the Multiverse?). It wouldn't be a big stretch to say there's life on other planets, since Hinduism supports the idea of many universes.
 
Iti oj

Iti oj

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Actually I am really interested in how reincarnation would work in regards to other planets with life.
 
Ashoka

Ashoka

श्री कृष्णा शरणं मम
lemaster13 said:
So you we are capable of being reborn in other worldly forms? I wonder I they have "Hinduism" there too.
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Well yeah, I think so. Depending on your karmas, you are reborn in different worlds, some nice, some not so nice.
 
Maya3

Maya3

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The universe must be teeming with life. I wish more than anything that we could find out about them all.

But I also wonder if our karma is attached to this planet only. I kind of think it is, if you get drawn back again and again due to samsara it would make sense that it is here.

Maya
 
Sumit

Sumit

Sanatana Dharma
Maya3 said:
But I also wonder if our karma is attached to this planet only.
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I don't remember the exact verse but it's from Rigveda. It says "We offer our prayers to the God who created sun and earth of previous cycles and will create the next one". Also Karma is a universal concept. If creature which are intelligent enough to decide between good and bad actions than karma will be applied on them irrespective of place since god is omnipresent.
 
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