Another Reincarnation Case. Must read

[sefroth77]

Manisha claims she was Suman in previous birth

Sonia Sarkar / New Delhi

Satyajit Ray's classic creation- Sonar Kella (Golden Fortress) has come alive in the Capital, as the protagonist of the film Mukul has got a real life persona in five-year-old Manisha who claimed to recall her last birth as Suman.

Parents of Suman with her photograph (Left); Manisha at Suman's residence



Suman was 15 when she died on December 14, 2000 after a bout of typhoid, in Zamrudpur in south Delhi. Manisha was born to Rampal and Khilli Devi from Milakpur near Alwar in Rajasthan with vivid memories of her last birth. Ever since she was two years old, she had been telling her "new parents" that she was Suman and not Manisha. As she grew older, she apparently started recalling more details about her past life and told her parents that her father's name was Kamal and her mother's was Santosh.

On the day of Suman's shraddh, this little girl once again entered the lives of Suman's family. In a touching reunion, she recognised Chaudhary Kamal Singh from among a group and ran into his arms unafraid and clung to him calling him 'papa'. She also correctly identified her mother from her previous birth.

Manisha doesn't speak too much, she prefers to let her pencil talk for her: "Mujhe pencil gol gol ghumana achha lagta hain (I love playing with pencil and paper)." A sincere student of Class XI, Suman was very fond of studies. Most of the time, Manisha also talked about her school-Andhra Education Society in Pushp Vihar and after reaching her old home in Delhi, the first thing she did was to identify her school uniform.

She even recalled the days spent with her old school friends- Pooja and Babita and also identified the grocery shop, which she frequented.

Like Suman, Manisha too prefers hygienic surroundings and loves to spend hours on her own. "Akele mein rehana pasand hain (I like to stay on my own)," she said. kaju barfi and rasmallai- are her favourite sweets and rajma chawal too..

Both families are awestruck by this amazing coincidence and have accepted the little child's narrative of facts without any doubts of their own . Suman's parents have even removed the garland that hung around her photograph . Simple folk they accept it as god's will .In the mean time, as news of this amazing case spread Kamal Singh's house was thronged by the curious and the believers, all wanting to get a glimpse of this 'born-again'daughter.

Talking about re-incarnation renowned parapsychologist Ven S Dhammika said, "Not only is there scientific evidence to support the Buddhist belief in rebirth, it is the only after-life theory that has any evidence to support it. There is not a scrap of evidence to prove the existence of heaven and of course evidence of annihilation at is also lacking. But during the last 30 years we have been studying reports that some people have vivid memories of their former lives." Thomas Huxley, who was responsible for having science, introduced into the 19th century British school system and who was the first scientist to defend Darwin's theories, believed that reincarnation was a very plausible idea.

In his famous book 'Evolution and Ethics and other Essays', he said. "In the doctrine of transmigration, whatever its origin, Brahmanical and Buddhist speculation found, ready to hand, the means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man. Yet this plea of justification is not less plausible than others; and none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the ground of inherent absurdity. Like the doctrine of evolution itself, that of transmigration has its roots in the world of reality; and it may claim such support, as the great argument from analogy is capable of supplying.

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Reincarnation is Reality, it is Real. At the moment it is classified as a Scientific Mysteries. No matter which religion you belongs, or where you are, most Souls are going to take birth again.

Those who believe in the Judgement day where God will come and Judge are all nonsense. Theres No Judgemant Day and theres No such thing God telling you if you are Good or Bad. It will make good story telling. Good for Kids.

Again i'm saying Reincarnation is REAL. It dosen't matter if its a belief system of any religions, the fact is Reincarnation is Real.
Do you believe in Lions and Tigers ?? ofcourse not its a fact right ? so similary Reincarnation is Real.

 

[rahul_sharma]

Thanks for Sharing

 

[Saraswati-Devi]

VERY INTERESTING!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[MahaSudarshanChakra]

Reincarnation is Reality, it is Real. At the moment it is classified as a Scientific Mysteries. No matter which religion you belongs, or where you are, most Souls are going to take birth again.

Those who believe in the Judgement day where God will come and Judge are all nonsense. Theres No Judgemant Day and theres No such thing God telling you if you are Good or Bad. It will make good story telling. Good for Kids.

Again i'm saying Reincarnation is REAL. It dosen't matter if its a belief system of any religions, the fact is Reincarnation is Real.
Do you believe in Lions and Tigers ?? ofcourse not its a fact right ? so similary Reincarnation is Real.

Seffroth,

After our death in this birth, we are judged by Yamaraj who decides if we go to hell or heaven. Dont you see a similarity?

First you goto Yamaraj who judges you. If your good karma predominates bad, you go to heaven and hell vice versa. After exhausting these karmas after experiencing hell or heaven (or both), you return to take birth in accordance with your sanchita(unexperienced karma) karma.

I think the judgement day of Christianity makes perfect sense within Hinduism.

 

[sefroth77]

Seffroth,

After our death in this birth, we are judged by Yamaraj who decides if we go to hell or heaven. Dont you see a similarity?

First you goto Yamaraj who judges you. If your good karma predominates bad, you go to heaven and hell vice versa. After exhausting these karmas after experiencing hell or heaven (or both), you return to take birth in accordance with your sanchita(unexperienced karma) karma.

I think the judgement day of Christianity makes perfect sense within Hinduism.

Ok Let me quote some verses from the Timeless Gita.

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. (Bhagavad Gita 2.13)

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.(Bhagavad Gita 2.22)

This is for most Normal human-beings.

Now look at the below verse :

There are three gates leading to this hell — lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.(Bhagavad Gita 16.21)

From the above verse is where Lord Yamaraj come into existence, This verse is for Sinners, people with Full of anger, greed or Lust all their life will end up in Hellish planets, under the instruction of Yamaraj.

Yamaraj won't determine if our Souls goes to Heaven or Hell, He only decides what punisment to give for sinners. Almost everybody will be taking Birth, Only Rare Souls are liberated.

 

[Saraswati-Devi]

Ok Let me quote some verses from the Timeless Gita.

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. (Bhagavad Gita 2.13)

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.(Bhagavad Gita 2.22)

This is for most Normal human-beings.

Now look at the below verse :

There are three gates leading to this hell — lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.(Bhagavad Gita 16.21)

From the above verse is where Lord Yamaraj come into existence, This verse is for Sinners, people with Full of anger, greed or Lust all their life will end up in Hellish planets, under the instruction of Yamaraj.

Yamaraj won't determine if our Souls goes to Heaven or Hell, He only decides what punisment to give for sinners. Almost everybody will be taking Birth, Only Rare Souls are liberated.

oh... interesting...

 

[sefroth77]

Manisha claims she was Suman in previous birth

Sonia Sarkar / New Delhi

Satyajit Ray's classic creation- Sonar Kella (Golden Fortress) has come alive in the Capital, as the protagonist of the film Mukul has got a real life persona in five-year-old Manisha who claimed to recall her last birth as Suman.

Parents of Suman with her photograph (Left); Manisha at Suman's residence



Suman was 15 when she died on December 14, 2000 after a bout of typhoid, in Zamrudpur in south Delhi. Manisha was born to Rampal and Khilli Devi from Milakpur near Alwar in Rajasthan with vivid memories of her last birth. Ever since she was two years old, she had been telling her "new parents" that she was Suman and not Manisha. As she grew older, she apparently started recalling more details about her past life and told her parents that her father's name was Kamal and her mother's was Santosh.

On the day of Suman's shraddh, this little girl once again entered the lives of Suman's family. In a touching reunion, she recognised Chaudhary Kamal Singh from among a group and ran into his arms unafraid and clung to him calling him 'papa'. She also correctly identified her mother from her previous birth.

Manisha doesn't speak too much, she prefers to let her pencil talk for her: "Mujhe pencil gol gol ghumana achha lagta hain (I love playing with pencil and paper)." A sincere student of Class XI, Suman was very fond of studies. Most of the time, Manisha also talked about her school-Andhra Education Society in Pushp Vihar and after reaching her old home in Delhi, the first thing she did was to identify her school uniform.

She even recalled the days spent with her old school friends- Pooja and Babita and also identified the grocery shop, which she frequented.

Like Suman, Manisha too prefers hygienic surroundings and loves to spend hours on her own. "Akele mein rehana pasand hain (I like to stay on my own)," she said. kaju barfi and rasmallai- are her favourite sweets and rajma chawal too..

Both families are awestruck by this amazing coincidence and have accepted the little child's narrative of facts without any doubts of their own . Suman's parents have even removed the garland that hung around her photograph . Simple folk they accept it as god's will .In the mean time, as news of this amazing case spread Kamal Singh's house was thronged by the curious and the believers, all wanting to get a glimpse of this 'born-again'daughter.

Talking about re-incarnation renowned parapsychologist Ven S Dhammika said, "Not only is there scientific evidence to support the Buddhist belief in rebirth, it is the only after-life theory that has any evidence to support it. There is not a scrap of evidence to prove the existence of heaven and of course evidence of annihilation at is also lacking. But during the last 30 years we have been studying reports that some people have vivid memories of their former lives." Thomas Huxley, who was responsible for having science, introduced into the 19th century British school system and who was the first scientist to defend Darwin's theories, believed that reincarnation was a very plausible idea.

In his famous book 'Evolution and Ethics and other Essays', he said. "In the doctrine of transmigration, whatever its origin, Brahmanical and Buddhist speculation found, ready to hand, the means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man. Yet this plea of justification is not less plausible than others; and none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the ground of inherent absurdity. Like the doctrine of evolution itself, that of transmigration has its roots in the world of reality; and it may claim such support, as the great argument from analogy is capable of supplying.

http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story7%2Etxt&counter_img=7



Reincarnation is Reality, it is Real. At the moment it is classified as a Scientific Mysteries. No matter which religion you belongs, or where you are, most Souls are going to take birth again.

Those who believe in the Judgement day where God will come and Judge are all nonsense. Theres No Judgemant Day and theres No such thing God telling you if you are Good or Bad. It will make good story telling. Good for Kids.

Again i'm saying Reincarnation is REAL. It dosen't matter if its a belief system of any religions, the fact is Reincarnation is Real.
Do you believe in Lions and Tigers ?? ofcourse not its a fact right ? so similary Reincarnation is Real.

Arunma do you have anything to say ??

 

[rahul_sharma]

Arunma do you have anything to say ??

They have replced it with cartoon of Sonia Gandhi.....lol

 

[ACougar]

I accept the probability that reincarnation is a fact, however there are other possibilities here I think. It is possible that the restless spirit of Suman is simply sharing space with Manisha. It would be interesting to find out if there were more than one distinct personalities.

 

[Defiance]

Hi everyone.

I would like to respond in detail, but I am leaving the forums for a while to concentrate on study for college and trying to pass a subject.

Please consider the following link, available here, that argues against reincarnation and provides an alternative explanation. The author himself tells of his "personal experience" with reincarnation and how he evaluated the belief.

Reincarnation is most certainly not scientific and is not proven and definitely not "fact".

 

[MahaSudarshanChakra]

Reincarnation is a fact if somebody would take the pain to verify what are called Nadi Astrology, available in Southern parts of India. Turning a blind eye or consider this a superstition, then of course, you are free to have your beliefs. But reincarnation is a fact.


Anyhow, when a "soul" has not been proved scientifically, it is rather unscientific to claim that the soul transmigrates. Hence, it would be foolish to call it as scientific. Nevertheless, it is a fact that can be verified if people shed their dogmatic and precomcieved notions and try to verify the Nadi Astrology.

 

[sefroth77]

Hi everyone.

I would like to respond in detail, but I am leaving the forums for a while to concentrate on study for college and trying to pass a subject.

Please consider the following link, available here, that argues against reincarnation and provides an alternative explanation. The author himself tells of his "personal experience" with reincarnation and how he evaluated the belief.

Reincarnation is most certainly not scientific and is not proven and definitely not "fact".

Let me quote from the link you gave.

I realized I had gotten it down to TWO possibilities:

I was really remembering a past life

a satanic angel was whispering things to me making me THINK I was remembering a past life
Number 1 fitted in with my lifelong beliefs and so I had never considered number 2.

Ok So far.

Now that I was troubled to the core, I thought about number 2 for the first time and I did this because I felt that the type of distress I was suffering did NOT come from God. I came up with some interesting conclusions:

My past memories had NEVER been positive, always negative – full of death and depression and hopelessness.

That is his personal Experience. NOT all have negative thoughts, There are over thousands of cases of reincarnation and There are both positive and negative aspects of it. So the way the guy is saying as if All Reincarnation cases is Negative, This clearly shows his Lack of Intelligence.

Furthermore to recall a Previous Experience, it takes a great deal Event which one could hardly forget. This event could also be Death Experience in that previous Life.

In my past life I had rejected a belief in God which is unusual for me because I’ve had a close relationship with God from an early age

Having a close relationship with God now dosen't mean he have to be God concious in his previous birth ? There are many births and in some of them one could have been a Atheist. A Stupid Statement by the Auther of the article.

And now this – feeling guilty and horribly depressed about this young man’s father’s death
Looking at it, I realized that numbers 1, 2, and 3 had the earmarks of Satan – depression, hopelessness, ugliness, death, no belief in God and soul crushing guilt.

The Fact is not All of them recall Bad experience, some encounter Good experiences, So where is the notion of Satan in this ?? So Satan is the cause of Depression, Hopelessness, Ugliness, death??? What nonsense is this ? A clear Childish statement.

No wonder many people are Leaving Christianity and becoming Atheist.

 

[Independence]

Hi sefroth77,

Having a close relationship with God now dosen't mean he have to be God concious in his previous birth ? There are many births and in some of them one could have been a Atheist. A Stupid Statement by the Auther of the article.

Sorry to interrupt, but this is just one of the few things I don't really understand about reincarnation and would really like someone to explain it to me without giving me any links please because I don't want to go searching for the information. How does the process of reincarnation work exactly? Is there a "soul" thing involved? If so, what exactly is it?

Thanks.

 

[sefroth77]

Hi sefroth77,

Having a close relationship with God now dosen't mean he have to be God concious in his previous birth ? There are many births and in some of them one could have been a Atheist. A Stupid Statement by the Auther of the article.

Sorry to interrupt, but this is just one of the few things I don't really understand about reincarnation and would really like someone to explain it to me without giving me any links please because I don't want to go searching for the information. How does the process of reincarnation work exactly? Is there a "soul" thing involved? If so, what exactly is it?

Thanks.

The Soul is a Non-Material Substance which cannot be percieved by our senses. The Soul belongs to a Non-Material Universe which is beyond our Material Cosmic Manifestation. The Soul is Part and Parcel of the Super-Soul(God)

What Makes the Material Body move.

The Soul is the one which makes the Body move, without the Soul ,we are dead. For the matter of fact our Body is actually dead. It is kept alive by the Soul.

A Seeker Should ask himself these questions.

1.Look at your hands and ask are you this hands ?

2.Look at your Body and ask are you this Body ? Are you your legs ?

3. What are you ? Is the Body you ? Or is there a real self behind the Body.

During a Funeral, the Body lays down motionless in the coffin. When ask where is that person, many people says "Oh he as passed away" but his body is there so where is that person ? that person is actually referred to as a Soul which have already left the Body.

Does the Soul exist in all living beings.

Yes the same Soul which is within you also exist in animals,Birds,Plants and also in the smallest insects. Without the Non-Material substsnce the Matter or the Body cannot move. Something powerful must move the body and make it alive. Similary when you(Soul) are in the car(Body), what makes the Car move ? The Driver(Soul) makes it move. If there is a engine defect will the car move ? No. No matter how hard the Driver(Soul) tries, the car could not move, So if any of our vital organs fail, we have to face death, Unless there is a organ transplant of something which makes you live and enables the soul to be trapped inside for a longer time due to working organs.

Is The Soul and the body different ?

Yes the Soul and the Body is different. You are not this Body, Your Real self is the Soul, You have been through many different bodies and have been affected by various climates and enviroment. When you were a Baby, right up to your Old Age your Body cells changes many times at a faster-rate in the beginning and towards your old age, it changes slowly, but still the Body is changing but your real self the Soul remains intact. So when it comes to a point where the Body cells could not replaced itself and thus death takes place, what happen to the Soul ? The Soul moves on into its next Body. Well its time to change Body.

What Body will you get in your next Birth ?

It depends on the three Mode of material nature(Goodness,Passion,Ignorance), Your Karma and also your Concious at the time of death. your Conciousness at the time of death carrys the Soul into its next Body. How do you feel this ? just before death, your eyes,hearing,taste all shuts out, the breathing will be very heavy. thats when your concious will appear in your mind, What are you thinking at that very moment is vital for your next birth, as long as the breathing stops, You are in a Dream stage, You cannot see your own body, The Soul is then transfered into a womb of another mother, and you'll continue to dream and still be concious of your present live, at Birth, You'll forget eveything which has happen in your previous birth. the Truma of Birth makes the Soul forgets its previous experience. while as a newborn you have limited intelligence due to the brain capacity, but while in dream stage, some past events might occasionaly appear but may dissapper when you as a child grow older.

Many documented cases of Children recalling their past live experience as been proven. Do a search on it thanks, i can't provide a link because i'm not in a proper forum to provide such links.



As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.

A Self Realised Person is not bewildered by any changes in the Body as it is the Soul which is the real self not the Body. While the Soul is in the Body, he has many fathers, many mothers, many lovers in many many life-times, In Some lifes he is Good in other live he is evil. he would have travel into 8,400,000 million of bodies ranging from Humans,Animals, Insects etc. A Self Realised person is not bewildered by such changes. So similary when Krishna was on the Battlefield in Kuruchestra, Everybody was Liberated, God does not see duality, He sees the Soul which has went through many different experiences.

What i have spoken to you is not religion. It is Science. This Science was spoken by Shri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. Bodily comparison like I am Indian, I am Chinese, I am Amercian, I am Muslim or I am Hindu are all refering to the Body not the Soul within in. God has no religion so similary the Soul has no religion. Man-Made Religions will have tons of Laws in it, to tell the Body what to do and not to Do, The Soul belongs to Eternal Laws.


I have given you a rough idea on Reincarnation, If you wanna know more PM me.

 

[Independence]

Hi sefroth77,

Thanks for answering my question and explaining about the process of reincarnation - it was most interesting.

The Soul is the one which makes the Body move, without the Soul ,we are dead. For the matter of fact our Body is actually dead. It is kept alive by the Soul.

The soul is a very mysterious thing indeed. So our conscious being isn't the soul? Because I was wondering, the soul couldn't stop the body from shutting down and moving in some cases, eplicitic fits, for example, and I highly doubt that the soul itself would cause such things to happen to the body that contains it. Does the soul cause cancers and other diseases?

A Seeker Should ask himself these questions.
1.Look at your hands and ask are you this hands ?
2.Look at your Body and ask are you this Body ? Are you your legs ?
3. What are you ? Is the Body you ? Or is there a real self behind the Body.

Hmm, an interesting question. I would say that I am the union of body and spirit. The spirit is my conscious being - my personality and my character. But who I actually am as a human being requires the union of both the spirit and the body.

Many documented cases of Children recalling their past live experience as been proven. Do a search on it thanks, i can't provide a link because i'm not in a proper forum to provide such links.

Thanks, I will. But perhaps there are other logical explanations that come from outside your religion?


A Self Realised Person is not bewildered by any changes in the Body as it is the Soul which is the real self not the Body. While the Soul is in the Body, he has many fathers, many mothers, many lovers in many many life-times, In Some lifes he is Good in other live he is evil. he would have travel into 8,400,000 million of bodies ranging from Humans,Animals, Insects etc. A Self Realised person is not bewildered by such changes. So similary when Krishna was on the Battlefield in Kuruchestra, Everybody was Liberated, God does not see duality, He sees the Soul which has went through many different experiences.

How can being placed into animals produce any karma? Think about it, animals are neither good nor bad, they don't perceive things like we humans do. What happens to those things which have netural karma? Is the process of reincarnation just random? Why do some people have memories of their "previous lives" when others, like myself, do not? What makes them special? Why and how is this possible if the soul thing doesn't carry any memories? If it does, why don't I remember? I know that it's quite a lot of questions, but I'm a curious person.


What i have spoken to you is not religion. It is Science. This Science was spoken by Shri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. Bodily comparison like I am Indian, I am Chinese, I am Amercian, I am Muslim or I am Hindu are all refering to the Body not the Soul within in. God has no religion so similary the Soul has no religion. Man-Made Religions will have tons of Laws in it, to tell the Body what to do and not to Do, The Soul belongs to Eternal Laws.

To me this sounds like religion (although it may be "truth", it's not "science"):
The Soul is a Non-Material Substance which cannot be percieved by our senses. The Soul belongs to a Non-Material Universe which is beyond our Material Cosmic Manifestation.

If the soul cannot be percieved by our senses (e.g. sight, smell, taste, touch, hear) then how can it's existence be proven scientificially following the scientific method that is heavily based on these senses being used?

I'm just trying to gain a better understanding of this - to me - foreign and wierd concept of reincarnation.

 

[sefroth77]

The soul is a very mysterious thing indeed. So our conscious being isn't the soul? Because I was wondering, the soul couldn't stop the body from shutting down and moving in some cases, eplicitic fits, for example, and I highly doubt that the soul itself would cause such things to happen to the body that contains it. Does the soul cause cancers and other diseases?

A Person who is in Coma is certified as Brain Dead. But the Soul is still within it and he is fully concious, he is aware of what is happening around him, through he is Brain Dead, There are people who wakes up from Coma after a few years, cleary indicates that there must be something beyond the Bodliy conception. That Thing which is beyond all senses is the Soul.

Scientist have proven that Conciousness continue to exist through the body is Brain-dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/986177.stm


From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ī, never takes birth again. (Bhagavad Gita 8.16)


So as long as we are here we are subjected to Birth,Disease,Old Age and Death. Disease are caused by Karma. Indirectly we are the caused of all diseases entering our body, whenever there is too much negative energies discharged within the Body, a Form of Diease will appear. The Soul by itself is not the caused of any disease. Because the Soul is being covered by two coverings known as the Subtle Body consist of the Mind,Intelligence and False ego(thinking i am this body) and the Outer Material Body. Because of all these the soul is known as a Conditioned Soul within this Material Universe. So the conditioned Soul will find it difficult to control the Mind. The Mind wanders around like an animal, if we see a Girl and say wow, it is the Mind which is instructing the Senses(Eyes,Smell,Taste,touch,hearing) to percived such things. The Soul has the ability to control the mind. To achieve this ability sometimes it takes many births. Its the Mind and the senses which makes you do stupid things, and thus gets a Karmic Reaction for it. The Soul is always pure and full of bliss.

Hmm, an interesting question. I would say that I am the union of body and spirit. The spirit is my conscious being - my personality and my character. But who I actually am as a human being requires the union of both the spirit and the body.

Yes that spirit is the Soul. But when this Spirit Departs the Useless Body, it Goes into another Body. The personality and Character of a Person has nothing to do with the Soul, In thousands of Human Births in various Bodys, the Character and Personalities varies.


The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Fearlessness; purification of one's existence; cultivation of spiritual knowledge; charity; self-control; performance of sacrifice; study of the Vedas; austerity; simplicity; nonviolence; truthfulness; freedom from anger; renunciation; tranquillity; aversion to faultfinding; compassion for all living entities; freedom from covetousness; gentleness; modesty; steady determination; vigor; forgiveness; fortitude; cleanliness; and freedom from envy and from the passion for honor — these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature. (Bhagavad Gita 16.1-3)

Does everyone has these qualites ??? why some have, why some do not ? In Nature all Souls possess these qualites its because we are Conditioned, our Characters and Qualites varies.

Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance — these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Pṛthā. (Bhagavad Gita 16.4)

There are many people like this.

Thanks, I will. But perhaps there are other logical explanations that come from outside your religion?

All i can say there is enought evidence to suggest reincarnation. It is classified under Scientific Mysteries. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a Scientific Fact.

How can being placed into animals produce any karma? Think about it, animals are neither good nor bad, they don't perceive things like we humans do. What happens to those things which have netural karma? Is the process of reincarnation just random? Why do some people have memories of their "previous lives" when others, like myself, do not? What makes them special? Why and how is this possible if the soul thing doesn't carry any memories? If it does, why don't I remember? I know that it's quite a lot of questions, but I'm a curious person.

The Law of Karma only applies to Human-Beings and Demi-Gods(Higher Life forms), it has nothing to do with any life forms below the Human status. If Your Karma is neutralized then you attain Liberation. If you have positive energies(karma) you take birth in Higher Life forms or taking birth in Good and peaceful families, If you have too much negative Karma, you take birth in War-Torn, extremely poor countries, or worst you'll take birth as an animal.

The process of Reincarnation is very complex and vast, It depends on what your concious are, what you think the most in this life-time. If your whole life you say, i want food, i like food, you lead a life similar to a Pig eating and sleeping, so at death the Soul is transfered to a womb of the Pig, Now you can eat all you want. this is just a example.

Why do you think Monks, and other religious figures always Chant ? Its Because when they Chant they always hear the names of the lord which enable them to be focus on God himself, This process if carry on will bring liberation for the conditioned Soul. At death his mind would be fill with the chanting of God's names and he is certainly liberated.

Why do some people have memories of their "previous lives" when others, like myself, do not? What makes them special?

who takes charge of the reincarnation process ?? God ? no not him, Nature does, Nature is being controlled by Demi-Gods(higher beings) so there are bound to be certain flaws in the system, some people are able to recall their previous experience. this does not make them special, It is just that they are able to recall. Infact most of us actually can while in a dream-stage. Unfamilier faces appears now and then, these faces could be our friends or relatives in our previous births.( i'm assuming this).

If you are able to recall a previous birth. there are certain things which might have happen.

1.A Flaw in a system where Nature actually takes charge of you.
2.God's will that you are able to recall your previous experience.
3.Too attached to your previous birth.
4.Your last birth could have been recent and in the same planet.(Earth)

For me, i'll go for number 1 or 4 as the best answer through one cannot rule out the other two.

To me this sounds like religion (although it may be "truth", it's not "science"):
The Soul is a Non-Material Substance which cannot be percieved by our senses. The Soul belongs to a Non-Material Universe which is beyond our Material Cosmic Manifestation.

Ok then i should used the correct term "Spiritual Science" A Science which cannot be percieved by our senses.

If the soul cannot be percieved by our senses (e.g. sight, smell, taste, touch, hear) then how can it's existence be proven scientificially following the scientific method that is heavily based on these senses being used?

Its beyond the senses, It can be proven, by you must make a Trip to India and seek a Naadi Translator. Then it will be proven to you. There are methods to make you recall your previous births. Reincarnation can be proven.

I'm just trying to gain a better understanding of this - to me - foreign and wierd concept of reincarnation.

Reincarnation once exist throughout the World, This Science was destroyed by the Early Christians and the Muslims.