Editing Reincarnation (section)

====Rationale====
The earliest layers of Vedic text incorporate the concept of life, followed by an [[afterlife]] in heaven and hell based on cumulative virtues (merit) or vices (demerit).<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Hastings|author2=John Alexander Selbie|author3-link=Louis Herbert Gray|author3=Louis Herbert Gray|series=[[Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics]]|title=Volume 12: Suffering-Zwingli|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.500005|year=1922|publisher=T. & T. Clark|pages=616–618|author1-link=James Hastings}}</ref> However, the ancient Vedic [[rishi]]s challenged this idea of afterlife as simplistic, because people do not live equally moral or immoral lives. Between generally virtuous lives, some are more virtuous; while evil too has degrees, and the texts assert that it would be unfair for people, with varying degrees of virtue or vices, to end up in heaven or hell, in "either or" and disproportionate manner irrespective of how virtuous or vicious their lives were.{{Sfn|Jessica Frazier|Gavin Flood|2011|pp=84–86}}<ref>{{cite book|author=Kusum P. Merh |title=Yama, the Glorious Lord of the Other World |year=1996|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-81-246-0066-5 |pages=213–215}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author= Anita Raina Thapan|title=The Penguin Swami Chinmyananda Reader  |year=2006|publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-400062-3 |pages=84–90 }}</ref> They introduced the idea of an afterlife in heaven or hell in proportion to one's merit.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jessica Frazier |author2=Gavin Flood |title= The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies  |year=2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-8264-9966-0|pages= 84–86 }}</ref><ref name="Krishan1997p17">{{cite book|author=Yuvraj Krishan |title=The Doctrine of Karma: Its Origin and Development in Brāhmaṇical, Buddhist, and Jaina Traditions  |year=1997|publisher= Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|isbn=978-81-208-1233-8 |pages=17–27 }}</ref>