substantial distinction between reincarnation and return (rajāt)

reincarnation (tan?sokh) and return (raj?t) are two similar, and at the same time controversial, issues in religious beliefs domain. the first is an important doctrine among great number of religions and philosophical and theosophical schools in world; and the second has also a significant position in some religions. this similarity is so that some people consider them as one doctrine. but this is not all the truth; because on the other hand some religions or schools accepted only one of them and reject the other. in any case, the advocators of these theories up to now could not come to certain conclusion and did not proceed fundamentally to these important issue and its implications. but they only insist on rudimentary correspondences and differences of these notions that often toke them from a defective and reductive definition of these two words. ...