The
Next World
As
we know that we can never be sure or can say what will happen tomorrow so too
it is same with the next world we can just presume about it, how it would be or
how could it be.
The
next world cannot be intelligible for us unless it is possible to use the
language of our world of things and persons to describe it. And only if
references to it are intelligible then we can understand the claim that a
survivor might perceive or act in it. So the chance of giving content to the
belief that after death one survivor, disembodied, in another world, depends on
our being able to articulate the concept of the next world in the language of
this one.
The
soul continues to live after death and gets back its body or anther body could
be a transformed one. If not then how a soul or a disembodied person could
walk, run, sit, talk etc. For we can ask how can this disembodied beings will
be visible or touchable to each other. Thus we can say that a person or a soul
has some sort of body but what kind it would be we are unable to say as we can
say about the transcendental things and beings.
The Upanishads suggests that the actual point of
exist or the subtle body from the physical varies from person to person and is
dependent upon the quality of the individual’s spiritual consciousness at the
time of dying. Also the Bhagavadgita (8:6) clearly teaches that the nature of
one’s existence after death is determined by the quality of one’s consciousness
at the time of death.
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