do you believe in life after death? what makes you?

Answer 1

yes i do...the reason being that when i was 13 i had a near death experience. i felt my spirit rise out of my body. i was floating upwards...i saw the ambulance i was in over the telephone wires. then a nurse brought me mack to life. if there wasnt life after death then i would have just been gone.

Answer 2

There is no death in the first place.
Death is an illusion.

It is always somebody else who dies; you never die. It means death has always been seen from the outside, it is the outsider's view.

Those who have seen their inner world are unanimous in saying that there is no death. Because you don't know what constitutes your consciousness; it is not constituted of breathing, it is not constituted of heartbeats, it is not constituted of blood circulation. So when the doctor says that a man is dead, it is an outsider's conclusion; all that he is saying is, "This man is no longer breathing, his pulse has stopped, his heart is not beating." Are these three things equivalent to death? They are not.

Consciousness is not your body, nor your mind, nor your heart.
So when a person dies, he dies for you, not for himself. For himself he simply changes the house, perhaps moves into a better apartment. But because the old apartment is left, and you are searching for him in the old apartment and you don't find him there, you think the poor guy is dead. All that you should say is, "The poor guy escaped. Now where he has gone, we don't know."

In fact, medical science is going beyond its limits when it says that some person is dead. Medical science has no right yet, because it has no definition yet of what constitutes death. It can simply say that "This man is no longer breathing. His heart has stopped. His pulse is no longer functioning." To conclude that he is dead is going beyond what you are seeing. But because science does not have any idea of consciousness, the death of the body becomes the death of the being.

Those who have known the being ... and it is not necessary for it that you should die and then you know; you can just go inside. That's what I call meditation -- just go inside and find out what is your center, and at your center there is no breathing, there is no heartbeat, there is no thought, no mind, no heart, no body, and still you are.
Once a person has experienced himself -- that he is not the body, not the mind, not the heart, but pure awareness -- he knows there is no death for him, because he does not depend on the body.

Awareness has no dependence on blood circulation. It does not depend on whether the heart beats or not, it does not depend on whether the mind functions or not. It is a totally different world; it is not constituted of any material thing, it is immaterial.
So the first thing to understand is that there is no death -- it has never been found.
And if there is no death, what insecurity can there be?
For an immortal life there can be no insecurity. Your immortality is not dependent on your bank balance; the beggar is as immortal as the emperor.

As far as people's consciousnesses are concerned, that is the only world where true communism exists: they all have equal qualities, and they don't have anything that can be lost or taken away. They don't have anything that can be destroyed, burned.

There is no insecurity.
All insecurity is a shadow of death.
If you look deeply, then every insecure feeling is rooted in the fear of death. But I am saying to you that there is no death; hence there cannot be any insecurity. You are immortal beings, amritasya putrah.
That's what the seers in the ancient East have said: You are the sons of immortality.

Answer 3

There is not only life after death, but life before death also, the soul or self that is temporarily covered by a material body is eternal, at no time did the soul or self not exist and at no time in the future shall the soul cease to be.

Actually there is no such thing as death, when the current material body is finished then the soul or self will leave and according to the mentality that has been created in this life, will either return to the spiritual world, taking up the original position, back home back to Godhead, or if the activities have been more worldly, accept another material body and continue on the journey.

When the original spiritual nature is revived, the self has the potency to perceive itself and spiritual reality in the next dimension, this is the purpose of human life.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 4

I believe in eternal life, and eternal death. It might sound either corny or morbid maybe even sad. I don't believe in a human like life after our death, but I do believe we are given a different kind of life after death and it doesn't have anything to do with "god" or our perceptions of good and evil. I simply believe that whatever you want to call the energy that powers our bodies changes when we die. I could take the corny Lion King route and say its the circle of life. Or I could morbidly detail the change of our body as it rotes and is re-absorbed by the earth. Or I could try to convey how I see that natural process as beautiful and freeing. When I die I'll be cremated like the most of the people in America, who ever loves me will spread my ashes into the river, and what was my life will become the river. I'll be with the earth until the earth is no more then I'll be with the universe until it fades and restarts. My life will reincarnate forever and so I will forever be alive and dead. It might seem sad or morbid or corny but it brings me more peace then any religious belief ever has. I hope I haven't confused you, but I love to talk about it, it reminds me that I have nothing to fear from death and that makes me feel alive for some strange reason.

Answer 5

What exactly do you think a soul is? What properties does it have? What part of 'you' resides in the soul?

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

Answer 6

YES I DO. I’m a Buddhist. Lord Budda has taught us lot of things about the life and the life after death. Our soul is in a never ending journey called “Sansara” and this life we are having today is just another life! May be after the death, person may born in a different place as a different person/animal. I believe this from faith and according to my understanding, I think it’s correct. I really don’t know about others. But if anyone say there is no life after death, I respect that too. After all, that’s his/her belief!

Answer 7

There is no any material evidence that there is life after death. If you want to believe in life after death you have either to be religious and believe the holy books without thinking or adopt one of the old religions like Buddhism and Hinduism and be superstitious>

Answer 8

Yes, but not according to man-made tradition.

One man-made tradition is "good people go to heaven when they die and bad people go to hell when they die."

Isn't it time we transcended the fables of childhood?

No one has gone to heaven except the Son of man (John 3:13).

And hell?

That's another story.

Where are they?

In their graves!

"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28-29).

The King James "damnation" is from lthe Greek word "krisis", meaning "contesting".

The "contesting" takes place in a second physical life after the 1000 years. The vast majority of mankind is not being called now.

Some of the ones who are "contesting" in the future will still not repent. And they will cease to exist. The words "you only live twice" will be only too true for them.

Answer 9

Yes, I do believe in life after death. But not all this Puffy Cloud Heaven stuff, I think that after you die you become a spirit.

Answer 10

Yes. Because the Bible says there is life after death. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I also have experienced incredibly peaceful feelings after my very beloved parents died, something I never would have expected to feel. I just know they are existing in Heaven and having an amazing time there.