hinduharsh123
hinduharsh123
Do plants have a soul? Do they have free will? We will start off there and then continue with my arguments as to why or why not. :shout
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For example, if someone cut down a forest, you kills all the trees but if you built a hospital, if those souls were included int the cylce of Hindu reincarnation then they would be reborn as babies into the hospital.
Okay, but then are we reincarnated into plants at some point since they are living? Because if we are not then why would god make them in the first place?
I've never heard that Hinduism supports the belief that a human can be reborn as a plant.
Is that an accepted belief or simply Hinduharsh's own idea?
To use up their store of sanchita karma. That is the accrued karma of all past lives. Sometimes a jiva (soul, if you will) is born as another form of life only to live that life and use up sanchita karma.
This seems to support the belief only in a "body" being reincarnated:
Reincarnation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But I have read that plants and other lowly organisms can be the reincarnation of a human. Of course, I can't remember where I read it.
Source?
900,000 forms in the water,
2,000,000 forms of trees and plants,
1,100,000 forms of insects,
1,000,000 forms of birds,
3,000,000 forms of beasts, and
400,000 human species.
That's what I read! A thousand blessings on you! :namaste
Gita also teaches that whatever one contemplates on during the last moments that form one acquires.
There is only one "stuff" in the Universe. There is only a single Consciousness. All the myriad "things" and beings and diversity are illusory -- dreams of the Single Consciousness; all part of the single, Universal Soul.
Interesting, but by what mechanism? How's that work?Very important to remember Sri Krishna and chant His names at time of death. I believe it results in instant moksha.