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he rejection of the belief in the hereafter is one of
the most fundamental aspects of pagan Eastern re-
ligions. They instead have an imaginary system of
karma by which the lives of sentient beings re-
volve in endless cycles of death and reincarnation.
The superstitious Hindu religion’s view of death
and the life on earth is based on these principles.
Reincarnation is the name given to the mistaken belief that can be
summarized as the return of the soul after each death into another body

In Hinduism, reincarnation goes by the name of samsara and works by
an imaginary system based on causality called “karma”. According to
the Karma belief, for which there is no supporting evidence, evil deeds
committed in the present life will form a negative karma which results
in a reincarnation into a “lower” body in the next life. Likewise, good
deeds make good karma and in the subsequent reincarnation, the person
is born into a “higher” being. In this way, people are continuously re-
born into a different body. However, no one seems to be able to provide
an answer as to who formed this imaginary system or how it can work.
According to the manmade Hindu belief, every living being goes
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through 8.400.000 forms of being before becoming a human. It is not re-
vealed under whose control these reincarnations take place but the ulti-
mate purpose is to break the «life-death-rebirth-life-death» cycle by at-
taining so-called freedom, “enlightenment,” the state of “Nirvana” or
meeting “Brahma”. All this however are only myths and tales of human
origin, based on the Hindu scriptures and therefore, the beliefs of karma
and reincarnation are nothing but irrational nonsense.
The Hindu scriptures define clearly the “laws of karma”. Through

these manmade laws Hindus can anticipate what their next incarnation
will hold for them based on what they do in the present life. For instance,