LIFE AFTER DEATH

There is one thing that is certain in this lifetime: eventually we all must die. A belief in the cyclical reincarnation of the soul is one of the foundations of the Hindu religion. Death is viewed as a natural aspect of life, and there are numerous epic tales, sacred scriptures, and vedic guidance that describe the reason for death's existence, the rituals that should be performed surrounding it and the many possible destinations of the soul after departure from its earthly existence. While the ultimate goal is to transcend the need to return to life on earth, all Hindus believe they will be reborn into a future that is based primarily on their past thoughts and actions. Most of the Hindus believe in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, which is called 'Samsara'.'Samsara' or the doctrine of rebirth is also known as the theory of reincarnation or of transmigration of the soul. This doctrine is considered to be a basic tenet of Hinduism. According to doctrine of rebirth, differences between individuals, even at the time of their birth are due to their past karma i.e. actions done in the past birth. For example if one child is born healthy while another is handicapped or blind, the differences are attributed to their deeds in their previous lives. Those who believe in this theory reason that since all actions may not bear fruit in this life, there has to be another life for facing or reaping the consequences of one's actions.

Death, according to Hinduism, is a series of changes through which an individual passes. Hinduism speaks of the four courses that men follow after death. The first, called devayana, way of the gods, is followed by spiritually advanced souls who lead an extremely pure life, devoting themselves to wholehearted meditation on Brahman, but who have not succeeded in attaining complete Self-knowledge before death. They repair to Brahmaloka, the highest heaven, and from there in due course attain liberation. The second course, known as pitriyana, way of the fathers, is followed by ritualists and philanthropists who have cherished a desire for the results of their charity, austerity, vows, and worship. Following this path, they repair to Chandraloka, the lunar sphere, and after enjoying immense happiness there as a reward for their good actions, they return again to earth since they still have earthly desires. The third course, which leads to hell, is followed by those who led an impure life, performing actions forbidden by the scriptures. They are born in sub-human species. After expiating their evil actions, they are again reborn on earth in human bodies. The fourth course is for those who are extremely vile in their thoughts and actions. They are reborn again and again as insignificant creatures such as mosquitoes and fleas. Eventually, after the expiation of their evil actions, they too return to human bodies on earth. When a soul assumes a human body, it takes up the thread of spiritual evolution of its previous human birth and continues to evolve toward Self-knowledge. According to Hinduism, all souls will ultimately attain Self-knowledge.

The concept of karma or "law of karma" is the broader principle that all of life is governed by a system of cause and effect, action and reaction, in which one's deeds have corresponding effects on the future. Karma is thus a way of explaining evil and misfortune in the world, even for those who do not appear to deserve it - their misfortune must be due to wrong actions in their previous life. Karma is regarded as a fundamental law of nature that is automatic and mechanical. It is not something that is imposed by God or a god as a system of punishment or reward, nor something that the gods can interfere with. The word karma refers primarily to "bad karma" - that which is accumulated as a result of wrong actions. Bad karma binds a person's soul (atman) to the cycle of rebirth (samsara) and leads to misfortune in this life and poor conditions in the next. The moral energy of a particular moral act bears fruit automatically in the next life, manifested in one's class, disposition, and character. Hindu texts also prescribe a number of activities, such as pilgrimages to holy places and acts of devotion that can wipe out the effects of bad karma. Such positive actions are sometimes referred to as "good karma." Some versions of the theory of karma also say that morally good acts have positive consequences. According to Hinduism, the traditions and the elders used to say that a person with perfect humanity and divinity will not have more than one birth. The people who have not been in perfection towards his life habits usually have another birth. This was said to happen 7 times. The person's life was fixed by god as per his behaviour in his previous birth. The philosophy according to Hinduism about rebirth was the mistakes you have done in previous birth can be covered in rebirth and get a perfect human life.

Moksha means "liberation." In certain forms of Hinduism, the idea is to live a good life so that your next life will be a better one. Ultimately, though, the goal of life in Hinduism is to get off the "wheel of karma," meaning the wheel of activity of life, which is full of pleasure and pain, gain and loss, and constant change, and return to the source of being in a fully evolved and realized way. The analogy is that life is like a dream that one must eventually awaken from.Moksha as the ultimate goal of all life inherently and spiritually our Soul Atman is bound to pursue this one and only goal in the life of every Soul Atman in the Cosmos. If gaining liberation from cycle of birth and death is the only goal of every soul our atman within... and knowing the fact that our body is but clothing for our Soul Atman, plays the governing role! Whatever be our present goal in life, the ultimate goal of our cosmic life remains the same, gaining Moksha.Attaining the state of Moksha Salvation is reaching the Mount Everest of physical manifested life. There is nothing beyond Moksha that is required to be achieved in this life. Moksha is that stage in the life of a human being when one cuts across all the shackles of senses and the mind. Unless we gain absolute control over the five senses and the mind... we cannot achieve Moksha in this life. Gaining absolute control over the senses and the mind is a complex process. One has to diligently take control of all the senses one by one and the moment we establish absolute control over all the five senses... controlling mind is easy to achieve! Our five senses help us live the physical manifest form of us. They have got nothing to do with our true inner self... our soul atman within us.

The Common word used for the doctrine of rebirth is 'Punarjanam'. In Sanskrit 'Punar' or 'Puna', means, 'next time'or 'again' and 'Janam' means 'life'. Therefore 'Punarjanam' means 'next life' or 'the life hereafter'. It does not mean coming to life on earth again and again as a living creature. If one reads many of the references to Punarjanam in Hindu Scriptures besides the Vedas, keeping the life in the hereafter in mind, one gets the concept of the next life but not of rebirths or of life again and again. This is true for several quotations of the Bhagvad Gita and Upanishad which speak of Punarjanam.This concept of repeated births or of cycle of rebirth was developed after the Vedic period. This doctrine was included by humans in subsequent Hindu scriptures including the Upanishad, Bhagvad Gita and the Puranas in a conscious attempt to rationalize and explain the differences between different individuals at birth and the different circumstances in which people find themselves in, with the concept that Almighty God is not unjust. So to say that since God is not unjust the inequalities and differences between people are due to their deeds in their past lives.

●!!हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण !!●●Srimad Bhagavad Gita-क्या होता है जब आत्मा शरीर को छोड़ती है  ●!!● राम राम हरे हरे!!●
●!!हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण !!●यह एक रहस्य ही है कि मौत के बाद की दुनिया कैसी है। शरीर छोडऩे के बाद आत्मा कहां जाती है और क्या इस दुनिया के अलावा भी कोई दुनिया है जहां इंसान को मृत्यु के बाद कर्मफल भोगने पड़ते हैं। किस्से कहानियों में नर्क की यातनाएं और स्वर्ग के सुखों के बारे में जो सुना है वह कितना सच है।
गीता में भगवान श्रीकृष्ण कहते हैं कि आत्मा की यात्रा अनंत है और यह शरीर केवल इसके लिए एक साधन है। बिलकुल कपड़े की तरह। आत्मा जब एक शरीर छोड़ती है, तो फिर कहीं ओर वह दूसरा शरीर भी धारण करती है। ये बात भलीभांति सुनी और समझी हुई है लेकिन एक शरीर से दूसरे शरीर तक की यात्रा में आत्मा को किन-किन घटनाओं से गुजरना पड़ता है, यह सबसे अधिक रोमांच और जिज्ञासा का विषय है।

हिंदू धर्म ग्रंथों में आत्मा की अनंत यात्रा का विवरण कई तरह से मिलता है। भागवत पुराण, महाभारत, गरूड़ पुराण, aकठोपनिषद, विष्णु पुराण, अग्रिपुराण जैसे ग्रंथों में इन बातों का बहुत जानकारी परक विवरण मिलता है।

मौत के क्षण : क्या होता है जब आत्मा शरीर को छोड़ती है गरूड़ पुराण कहता है कि जब आत्मा शरीर छोड़ती है तो उसे दो यमदूत लेने आते हैं। जैसे हमारे कर्म होते हैं उसी तरह वो हमें ले जाते हैं। अगर मरने वाला सज्जन है, पुण्यात्मा है तो उसके प्राण निकलने में कोई पीड़ा नहीं होती है लेकिन अगर वो दुराचारी या पापी हो तो उसे बहुत तरह से पीड़ा सहनी पड़ती है। पुण्यात्मा को सम्मान से और दुरात्मा को दंड देते हुए ले जाया जाता है। गरूड़ पुराण में यह उल्लेख भी मिलता है कि मृत्यु के बाद आत्मा को यमदूत केवल 24 घंटों के लिए ही ले जाते हैं।

इन 24 घंटों में उसे पूरे जन्म की घटनाओं में ले जाया जाता है। उसे दिखाया जाता है कि उसने कितने पाप और कितने पुण्य किए हैं। इसके बाद आत्मा को फिर उसी घर में छोड़ दिया जाता है जहां उसने शरीर का त्याग किया था। इसके बाद 13 दिन के उत्तर कार्यों तक वह वहीं रहता है। 13 दिन बाद वह फिर यमलोक की यात्रा करता है।

आत्मा की गतियां वेदों, गरूड़ पुराण और कुछ उपनिषदों के अनुसार मृत्यु के बाद आत्मा की आठ तरह की दशा होती है, जिसे गति भी कहते हैं। इसे मूलत: दो भागों में बांटा जाता है पहला अगति और दूसरा गति। अगति में व्यक्ति को मोक्ष नहीं मिलता है उसे फिर से जन्म लेना पड़ता है। गति में जीव को किसी लोक में जाना पड़ता है।

अगति के चार प्रकार हैं क्षिणोदर्क, भूमोदर्क, तृतीय अगति और चतुर्थ अगति। क्षिणोदर्क अगति में जीव पुन: पुण्यात्मा के रूप में मृत्यु लोक में आता है और संतों सा जीवन जीता है, भूमोदर्क में वह सुखी और ऐश्वर्यशाली जीवन पाता है, तृतीय अगति में नीच या पशु जीवन और चतुर्थ गति में वह कीट, कीड़ों जैसा जीवन पाता है। वहीं गति के अंतर्गत चार लोक दिए गए हैं और जीव अपने कर्मों के अनुसार गति के चार लोकों ब्रह्मलोक, देवलोक, पितृ लोक और नर्क लोक में स्थान पाता है।

आत्मा का मार्ग आत्मा की यात्रा का मार्ग पुराणों में आत्मा की यात्रा के तीन मार्ग माने गए हैं। जब भी कोई मनुष्य मरता है और आत्मा शरीर को त्याग कर उत्तर कार्यों के बाद यात्रा प्रारंभ करती है तो उसे तीन मार्ग मिलते हैं। उसके कर्मों के अनुसार उसे कोई एक मार्ग यात्रा के लिए दिया जाता है।

ये तीन मार्ग है अर्चि मार्ग, धूम मार्ग और उत्पत्ति-विनाश मार्ग। अर्चि मार्ग ब्रह्मलोक और देवलोक की यात्रा के लिए है। धूममार्ग पितृलोक की यात्रा के लिए है और उत्पत्ति-विनाश मार्ग नर्क की यात्रा के लिए है।

कितने तरह के होते हैं नर्क मुख्य नरक 36 हैं। उनमें भी अवीचि, कुम्भीपाक और महारौरव ये तीन मुख्यतम हैं। ये तीनों नरक समस्त नरकों या नरक लोक के अध: मध्य और ऊध्र्व भाग में स्थित हैं। 36 नरकों में से एक-एक के चार-चार उप नरक हैं। ●!! राम राम हरे हरे !!●

What do Mormons believe happens to us after we die? What do Mormons believe about life after death?

When we die our spirits leave our physical bodies and pass into the spirit world. There they find themselves in one of two circumstances. Either they are in paradise--a state of rest, a place of peace free from the cares and worries of mortality, or they are in a type of "spiritual prison." This is not a prison with locks and bars per se, but it is a place where spirits dwell who lack the necessary covenant blessings to be able to proceed on their eternal path. These are matters that must be addressed before they can progress forward. We believe that we can help provide a way forward for these individuals through vicarious temple work on their behalf. Through these temple covenants we believe that we can make availabe to individuals in the spirit world completed covenants which if accepted will allow them to continue along their eternal path. These principles are taught in the New We believe that during the three days that Christ's body lay in the tomb, His spirit went to the spirit world and there He organized the preaching of the gospel to the spirits in prison. We labor in the holy temples to bring the blessings of baptism and of temple covenants to our ancestors so that they might have a hope and faith in the atonement of Christ as well. Ultimately, we will resurrect and our bodies and spirits will be reunited and we will live immortally forever as families sealed together in eternal family organizations if we are faithful in keeping the covenants we make during this life.