Transmigration
Transmigration differs from reincarnation. Transmigration is a word used in Hinduism, and it is placed within the Hindu Samsaric framework. The Hindu believes in the soul, karma, and the cycle of transmigration (samsara). The Hindu does not believe that God puts a soul into the body at birth. Nor does he believe that the soul separates from the body at death and remains without a body as a discarnate spirit. The Hindu belief is that the soul transmigrates straight away into another body after death. This is transmigration. The Hindu also believes that the soul can even enter an animal body at death, where as the Reincarnationist does not belief so. The Hindu view is that this process of transmigration (samsara) of the soul continues, determined by karma. Karma is a natural law of punishment and reward for actions good and bad done during life. The purpose of the Hindu life is to put an end to this cycle of transmigration and be free from Karma, because it is so unpleasant. These sufferings of samsara and karma can be stopped only by purifying the soul through good behaviour and meditation. This purification does not happen automatically, or due to the transmigration alone, or even due to the power of God, but it happens due to a conscious human effort to purify the soul. When the soul is purified, it goes back to God, to whom it belongs, and where it came from. That is the end of the painful vortex of birth and death (samsara).