Using the Twitter’s poll tool we conducted a poll which gave the below results:

Reincarnation happens:
Believe so but there is no evidence for it: 52%
Sure, have the evidence for it: 20%
No, just mumbo-jumbo: 11%
Do not know: 17%
388 respondents
Most of the people who are in my sphere on Twitter are Hindus from India and North
America, with smaller numbers from East Asia and Europe.

Hence, the above result is quite in line with reincarnation being a widespread
belief among Hindus. With all the caveats of sample size and this poll not being
“scientific” and the like, it is still notable to us that the majority believe in
it. 72% in one way or another. Some complained that the negative alternative was
too strong. Others said that it was self-evident to them hence the alternatives did
not capture that special experience of their self-evident knowledge of
reincarnation. All those are valid but we think these alternatives mostly capture
the “big picture”.

In Hindu tradition, reincarnation makes its appearance in the late Vedic tradition
in the āraṇyaka-s and upaniṣat-s while being conspicuously absent in the early
layers of their tradition. Yet parallel beliefs are encountered among their cousins
the yavana-s and in a muted form (perhaps due to Zarathushtra) among the Iranians
(at least as far as the Zoroastrians are concerned). Thus, it could have been an
older belief that came back to the mainstream in the later Vedic layers. It is
central to the philosophies of the nagna and the tathāgata suggesting that the
belief in reincarnation had taken