In my view the life begins at the time of forming zygote inside the mother's womb. My question is that what is the view of Hinduism about "the beginning of a life"?
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**Scientifically:** You are correct.

**By Hinduism:** Its a soul,which is going to change a body like clothes, leaving off the old one and wearing newones.[see this](http://www.eaglespace.com/spirit/gita_reincarnation.php)

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> vaasaa.nsi jiirNaani yathaa vihaaya navaani gRRihNaati naro.aparaaNi.
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> tathaa shariiraaNi vihaaya jiirNaanyanyaani sa.nyaati navaani dehii..
>  B.G. II-22
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> वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि।
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> तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही।।
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**That is:** The life of your **body** begins when Zygote was formed in mother's womb, but there is no life of your **soul** (and no death either).
*Krishna* says in the *Bhagavad Gita* that the soul is eternal i.e. life neither begins nor ends. Ofcourse, the body if formed again and again as mentioned in *nobalG's* answer.

TEXT 2.12

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> na tv evaham jatu nasam na tvam neme janadhipah na caiva na
>  bhavisyamah sarve vayam atah param
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SYNONYMS

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> na—never; tu—but; eva—certainly; aham—I; jātu—become; na—never;
>  āsam—existed; na—it is not so; tvam—yourself; na—not; ime—all these;
>  janādhipāḥ—kings; na—never; ca—also; eva—certainly; na—not like that;
>  bhaviṣyāmaḥ—shall exist; sarve—all of us; vayam—we; ataḥ
>  param—hereafter.
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TRANSLATION

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> Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these
>  kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
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<http://www.asitis.com/2/12.html>