Reincarnation -Part 2

In this post let us look at what the our religion tell us about life after death.
The vedic hymns in hinduism mentioned about life after death.Here is the excerpts from the Atharva veda detailed out in english for better understanding.
The components of human nature are the physical body, ashu and manas. Ashu represents the vital principle (different from personal attributes), and manas the sum of psycho-mental faculties (mind, feeling and will). The belief in the preservation of the three components after death is proved by the fact that the family addressed the departed relative in the burial ritual as a unitary person: "May nothing of your manas, nothing of the ashu, nothing of the limbs, nothing of your vital fluid, nothing of your body here by any means be lost" (Atharva Veda).
This is, in accordance to the faith in hinduism, that there is life after death and it was a time, when people even believed that the dead, should be accompanied with food and other things required for his journey, but it does not speak about reincarnation.
Next the Rig veda, spoke about the journey after life abode .here it is. "Yama was the first to find us our abode, a place that can never be taken away, where our ancient fathers have departed; all who are born go there by that path, treading their own" (Rig Veda 10,14,2). so here again there is no mention of reincarnation.
Upanishads were the first scripture which came up with the concept of reincarnation.A possible explanation was required to explain the meaning of life.
Its first clear formulation can be found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad "According as one acts, according as one behaves, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action." Reincarnation is the practical way in which one reaps the fruits of one's deeds. This was then followed by Shvetashvatara Upanishad which again reinstated the fact that the doer according to his deeds assumes different forms and continues his journey till all of his actions are set towards attaining moksha.
"Just as the self advances through childhood, youth and old age in its physical body, so it advances to another body after death. The wise person is not confused by this change called death . Just as the body casts off worn out clothes and puts on new ones, so the infinite, immortal self casts off worn out bodies and enters into new ones" .
Vedanta adopted the concept of a subtle body (sukshma-sharira) which is attached to atman as long as its bondage lasts.T he facts recorded by the subtle body cannot transmit the impressions since it thinks that it is only an illusion and so erases it from memory. That is the reason the person has no recognition of events or people.I t may sometimes bring in unconscious recognition without provoking the sub conscious mind. The reservoir of karmas is called karmashaya. karmashaya has nothing in common with psycho-mental abilities. This deposit of karma merely serves as a mechanism for adjusting the effects of karma in one’s life.It is karmashaya that dictates the new life, the length of life,and the bhoga and aishwarya that accompanies it.