The concept of rebirth occupies a central place in both the Bhagavad Gita and Buddhism, yet the two traditions interpret its nature, cause, and purpose in significantly different ways. Both agree that ordinary existence is marked by suffering and that liberation from the cycle of repeated births is the highest goal. However, they differ in their understanding of the self, karma, and the means by which liberation is attained. In the Bhagavad Gita, rebirth is based on the existence of the eternal Self or Atman. The Gita teaches that the Atman is immortal, indestructible, and unchanging. While the physical body is born, grows old, and dies, the soul continues its journey by taking another body according to its accumulated karma. This process is explained through the famous analogy that just as a person discards worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, the soul abandons an old body and acquires a new one. Therefore, death is not the end of existence but merely a transition from one life to another. Buddhism, on the other hand, rejects the idea of an eternal and permanent soul. The Buddha's doctrine of Anatta or non-self states that there is no unchanging essence within a person. What is called a person is only a temporary combination of physical and mental elements known as the five aggregates. Since there is no permanent self, rebirth does not involve