There is no immortal "soul," "spirit," or "self" in the Buddhist conception of reincarnation,

simply a "stream of awareness" that connects one life to the next. The early Buddhist texts
discuss methods for remembering previous births, predicated on the development of high levels
of meditative concentration. The actual process of change from one life to the next is known as
punarbhava (Sanskrit) or punabbhava (Pli), literally "becoming again," or more briefly bhava,
"becoming." Buddha reportedly warned that this experience can be misleading and should be
interpreted with care. He taught a distinct concept of rebirth constrained by the concepts of
anattā, that there is no irreducible atman or “self” tying these lives together, which serves as a
contrast to Hinduism, where everything is connected, and in a sense, “everything is everything.”
According to Buddhist theology, the growing awareness (Pali: samvattanika-viana) or stream of
consciousness (Pali: viana-sotam) becomes one of the contributing factors for the emergence of a
new aggregation after death (or "the disintegration of the aggregates"). Similar to how a dying
candle's flame may be used to light another candle, a new personality emerges when one dies.
While the deceased person's consciousness and the new person's consciousness are neither
completely the same nor wholly different from one another, they do create a causal continuity or
stream. The result of karma, also known as volitional action or kamma in Pali, is transmigration.
The fundamental cause of reincarnation is consciousness' continued ignorance (Avidya in Pali
and Avijja in Sanskrit). In Vipassana meditation, mind-states are observed with "bare attention"
without judgment, ownership, or interference. Observation shows that every moment is an
encounter with a distinct mental state, such as a thought, memory, emotion, or perception, which
originates, exists, and vanishes. Thus consciousness is a continuous birth and death of mind-
states: Rebirth is the persistence of this process. This limits the power of desire, which, according
to the second noble truth of Buddhism, is the cause of suffering (dukkha), and leads to Nirvana
(nibbana, vanishing [of the self-idea]), in which self-oriented models are transcended and "the
world stops."
Sikhism advocates following the "Bhakti" path in order to get redemption. According to Sikh
doctrine, until liberation, the soul is transferred from one body to another. We get a better
existence if we carry out good activities and actions and remember the creator; nevertheless, if
we commit wicked deeds and sins, we shall reincarnate in "lower" life forms. God could forgive
our sins and set us free. Otherwise, reincarnation is a result of the law of cause and effect and
does not divide individuals into castes or other categories.