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Some visit about in other planes a while, and some reincarnate immediately, but everyone gets back to earth sooner or later. It's very magnetic that way.

2007-03-01 00:53:46 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

That's an age old question, friend, and it's also the basis for most religious beliefs.

Differing beliefs follow different thoughts on this. Christianity believes that after death, you rise to "heaven". Islam believes that when you die, you remain in purgatory until you are judged, then you either go "up" or "down", depending on your actions during life.

Personally, I believe that your energy (some call it soul) is expelled into the surrounding atmosphere, and joins the collective. Once there, it combines with other energies and creates a resonating force that CAN cross over to contact us, even if it's only place-memory that is seen by us on this plane of existence.

2007-03-01 09:01:56 · answer #2 · answered by Critter Lady 4 · 1 0

Different religions have different views about the life (Spirit) after death

Hindus - spirit Will re-born in another form of life, and death/life cycle Will go on

Muslim - all spirits will wait for the judgment day, when their faith will be decided according to deeds they did on earth, on that basis they (Spirits) will either go to heaven or hell

Christan - eventual destination is either an eternal reward in Heaven or Paradise, or extreme torture in Hell, either for a finite time, or for all eternity

2007-03-01 09:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by Scoute M 4 · 0 0

It depends on the karmas performed by the soul in its present and past lives.

Generally a soul temporarily goes to a higher or lower world. These are the equivalent of heaven and hell. It is said there are 7 higher worlds and 7 lower worlds. The more spiritually pure a soul the higher it progresses and vice versa.

However a soul which still has infinished karmas will have to return to the world to fulfill its duties and bear the fruits of its actions.

There are also instances where a soul does not progress to either of the two worlds and raoms about aimlessly in the astral world which coexists with our own world. These are souls of people who die a premature or violent death and also people who commit unspeakable acts during thier lifetime. Such souls endure immense pain and suffering until they are sent to the lower worlds where again they suffer the punishments accorded to them before being reborn to fulfill the remaining karmas.

Great souls of sages and saints who have fulfilled their karmas do not have rebirths. They become one with God, the universal life force. This is what we call Moksha ( Hinduism ) or Nirvana ( Buddhism ).

2007-03-01 09:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by Rakesh 2 · 1 0

God created man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man BECAME a living soul. God did not "put a soul" into man. Gen 2:7

The body returns to the dust and the Spirit returns to God. The Bible does not say "the soul" returns to God, but the Spirit. Eccl 12:7

The Spirit is the same as God's breath of life of His power.
Job 27:3

2007-03-01 10:55:58 · answer #5 · answered by bethybug 5 · 0 0

First let us understand death.
When death happens,ie., when the body perishes the eternal indestructible soul within the body goes to another body according to one's karma. Just as one changes new clothes when old cloth is torn, similarly we accept another body(new cloth) when the old body is torn(dies). Just as when a old house we are dwelling collapses, we enter a new house, similarly we give up our old body(where soul lives) and enter new body(house).

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.As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.Bhagavad-gita-2.12 & 13

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both. Bhagavad-gita-2.16
An excerpt from the purport to the above verse by Srila Prabhupada(ISKCON founder).
There is no endurance of the changing body. That the body is changing every moment by the actions and reactions of the different cells is admitted by modern medical science; and thus growth and old age are taking place in the body. But the spirit soul exists permanently, remaining the same despite all changes of the body and the mind. That is the difference between matter and spirit. By nature, the body is ever changing, and the soul is eternal. This conclusion is established by all classes of seers of the truth, both impersonalist and personalist. In the Vishnu Purana (2.12.38) it is stated that Vishnu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence (jyotimsii vishnur bhuvanani vishnuh). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.

That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.
Bhagavad-gita-2.17

Lord Krishna gives in verses 22 to 25, further information.
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.

Now where the spirit souls after death and go to different temporary situations,
Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to what they worship, Bhagavad-gita-9.25
"Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live with Me."

Further, Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to what the three modes of material nature, Bhagavad-gita-14.18
Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.

2007-03-01 21:47:40 · answer #6 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0 0

I believe your spirit will live on in the memory of others.

2007-03-01 08:57:11 · answer #7 · answered by deedee2qu 3 · 0 0

HADES where there is a place of torment and a place of paradise.
the souls wait there for the judgment day nad then all will bow before the throne of God and be separated, the goats to hell the sheep to heaven. (goats are the unsaved souls, sheep are the saved souls that obeyed their master and good Shepherd Jesus)

2007-03-01 09:17:57 · answer #8 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0 0

up into the atmosphere, where it will contribute to Global Warming. In response, Al Gore is pushing for legislation outlawing death.

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2007-03-01 08:54:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

read jhon 3:16

for god so love ther world that he gave his only begotten son(jesus) that who so every belives on him shall not parish but have evelasting life.

according to christian tradition you got to eaither two place after death you soule gose to either heven or hell

because when god created adam he breath life in him making him a living soul
so yes according to christian tradition you, me and everyone eles is a living soul

2007-03-01 12:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by theresa s 1 · 0 0

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