2007-10-10 05:00:41 · 48 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really.
Hinduism can give some mystical answers.
The soul dwells as the inmost body of light and superconscious, universal mind of a series of nested bodies, each more refined than the next: physical, pranic, astral, mental. In our conscious mind we think and feel ourselves to be a physical body with some intangible spirit within it. Yet, right now our real identity is the soul that is sensing through its multiple bodies physical, emotional and mental experience. Recognizing this as reality, we powerfully know that life doesn't end with the death of the biological body. The soul continues to occupy the astral body, a subtle, luminous duplicate of the physical body. This subtle body is made of higher-energy astral matter and dwells in a dimension called the astral plane. If the soul body itself is highly evolved, it will occupy the astral/mental bodies on a very refined plane of the astral known as the Devaloka, "the world of light-shining beings." At death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension.
The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night. The astral world is equally as solid and beautiful, as varied and comprehensive as the earth dimension-if not much more so. Spiritual growth, psychic development, guidance in matters of governance and commerce, artistic cultivation, inventions and discoveries of medicine, science and technology all continue by astral people who are "in-between" earthly lives. Many of the Veda hymns entreat the assistance of devas: advanced astral or mental people. Yet, also in the grey, lower regions of this vast, invisible dimension exist astral people whose present pursuits are base, selfish, even sadistic. Where the person goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind.
Because certain seed karmas can only be resolved in earth consciousness and because the soul's initial realizations of Absolute Reality are only achieved in a physical body, our soul joyously enters another biological body. At the right time, it is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body-which is a duplicate of the last physical form-is sluffed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation: "re-occupying the flesh."
During our thousands of earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns are experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. We come to earth as princesses and presidents, as paupers and pirates, as tribals and scientists, as murderers and healers, as atheists and, ultimately, God-Realized sages. We take bodies of every race and live the many religions, faiths and philosophies as the soul gains more knowledge and evolutionary experience.
Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development.
Hope the above dispels your doubts.
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2007-10-15 00:10:07 · answer #1 · answered by Siva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in hell and heaven the way some people do. I believe there is a place where everybody goes (not only Christians, of course!), not with clouds and angels, just a place like a hospital or maybe several buildings with rooms, surrounded by gardens full of flowers, where people stay for a while, recovering from past life, traumas and resentments, where we meet our beloved ones and get prepared to be born again.
I don't believe in hell, but I believe that bad people, stubborn people, refusing to accept they are dead or simply too attached to the material things or just attached to people, linked to earth by anger, revenge or any other bad feelings, stay walking on Earth, usually close to their relatives and friends and really disturbing those still alive. They need help and lots of prayer so that they can be rescued.
Peace!
2007-10-10 07:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by Janet Reincarnated 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear Friend,
Yes! Heaven and Hell really exist. Some people may not believe but it is TRUE as said in the Bible. As you meditate/read in the Gospel, which is God's Word, you know that there are Heaven and Hell and all sinners will be sent to Hell when their times come.
As mention in Mark 16:16 He who believes (in Jesus Christ) and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
There is NO OTHER WAY my friend. Do not ignore God's salvation plan through Jesus Christ. If you have not believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God, I strongly recommend you to read the Bible and/or ask someone in the Church who can help you to understand how to be saved!
Yes! Heaven and Hell are REAL. The ONLY WAY to be in Heaven is to Believe and Ask Jesus Christ into your life.
You may go to Websites: www.choothomas.com and www.spiritlessons.com to see more in details as some people had been in Heaven and Hell.
I will be happy to talk with you if you have any questions about this topic or want to understand about God's Love and Salvation.
Truly from Good Friend!
2007-10-10 06:24:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are purely the mental states .you think that heaven is one that is full of boundless joy,and comfort and hell is full of worries and boundless distress . you call your loved ones as honey.you do not mean that they are the sticky viscous sweet fluid hat the honey bee makes .You only mean your mental state when yo think of them. Heaven and hell are like that .,they are not divine cities created by gods and located up above the sky. So what is meant is that those who love god and blessed by god are happy and will remain happy for eternity (meaning hat they will have an after life also where they will continue to be happy in God's house .) all religions mean the same and those who take them literally are people with a lesser level of intelligence and understanding . Happiness and sorrow are condions of the mind only.One man's sorrow is another ones bliss .so hey differ from people to people .Despite that there are certain conditions that make everybody happy or unhappy also .They are conditions of heaven and hell and not physical entities by mental conditions and proclivities .
2007-10-10 05:35:56 · answer #4 · answered by Infinity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes both heaven and hell exist and you shall be placed in either heaven or hell according to your deeds. You yourself are responsible for the creation of heaven or hell where you are put into. You would be put into either of them in accordance to your own deeds and you absolutely deserve whatever you receive here on earth.
2007-10-10 20:02:34 · answer #5 · answered by crewsaid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you think ? (I said IF Heaven and Hell exists. Of course I know both exists) No you do not not know those places exist, someone told you that they did and without any further investigation, you believed them.
2016-05-20 23:29:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure do! Heaven is what God purchased for us all, with his own blood. Hell is not the punishment for our sins, but rather, the consequence of rejecting God's offer of putting all of our trust in Him. I mean, if you don't want to be near Him, He won't force you...and that is exactly how a person will spend the rest of their eternal life, away from God.
2007-10-11 16:54:20 · answer #7 · answered by WhiteTiger29 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. No God would allow a place such as hell to exist, let alone create it.
As for Heaven, I doubt it. I believe that our spirits move on, but I doubt it's to anyplace vaguely resembling the Christian idea of Heaven.
2007-10-10 05:11:42 · answer #8 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christians and Muslims both believe in the existence of heaven and hell. I am a Traditional (heathen) Witch so I don't believe in such places. We don't need a place of utter torment and evil to scare us into doing the right thing.
2007-10-10 05:07:48 · answer #9 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes ur thoughts r proof of ur heaven and hell.
2007-10-10 20:42:58 · answer #10 · answered by sudershan Guddy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋