Guest guest Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 3.How long is the waiting period between death and accepting another body? How does reformation in hell fit in say if you're are destined to take an animal birth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 animal birth is hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 NO body in reality can answer this kind of question how much ever that person may be spiritually elevated, because this is something totally in the hands of that Paramathma. NObody even knows what form the soul will take birth in its next birth again. We can speculate and talk for fun, but no use still. Raghavan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muralidhar_das Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 After you die, you can go to the higher planes of existence and go through to the Vaikuntha and Goloka (Krishna's world) if you die with the name of Hare Krishna on your lips or in your ears. If you are a non-devotee and you are pious, you will go upwards toward heaven. (Svah-loka) If you have caused great harm to other beings, you will go into the plane or dimension of fear and bad dreams, and enter the underworld (Bhuvah-lokah). You may be reborn almost immediately in a body befitting your consciousness, and so if you were a movie star and a "catty" sort of girl, well, you will become a self-serving cat. And so forth. Most people will go to the kingdom of the king of the dead, (Yama-loka), to await judgement for the things you have done. If you go there, you wait for a year in suspension while before your case is heard on your day of judgement. In which case, if some of your relatives perform rites of worship during this period, using money etc that you have bequeathed etc. then you will be ok. Otherwise, you go down into the netherworld and take birth with a lower form of body. People "move on" when they are reborn and the forget the details of their previous lifetimes, but they remember what they want to remember, as in the case of people who like to be angry. The feeling of anger is close to their heart, and so when they roar with anger other creatures around them hear the roar. They roar and groan in the jungle for lifetime after lifetime, until they evolve to a higher stage of consciousness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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