This continuing cycle is called samsara, and the only escape from it is when a person reaches Moksha. Moksha is the Hindu resting place for the soul, or when a person is supposed to be united with Brahman, the Hindu God. Document 2 states, “To do that, individuals must free themselves from selfish desires that separates them from Brahman.” What life a person receives when they reincarnate is determined by a person’s karma, the consequences of one’s decisions in a future life. The kind of life people live is determined by caste, as since Hindus believe karma affects your future social status, a person is born into a caste, which is a variation of a social scale or a person’s position in society.
Also there are spirits, and those spirits may be able to come talk to those who still live, even “live” among them. These are things that don’t really happen in the Christian view of “afterlife.” You have eternity in heaven or
Burying the dead is something that Antigone felt strongly about and thought that all people should have the right to after they leave us. Do we not all believe that burying the dead is a religious belief that we all share for what is morally right? Clearly, people of Thebes, if you do not share in this belief that burying the dead is a part of our moral beliefs, then clearly you also do not believe in new life after we pass over. Before Antigone died she spoke, “But I will bury him; and if I must die,/I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down/With him in death, and I shall be as dear/ To him as he to me” (816).
[...] Afterlife The spirit can be seen and felt leaving the body. It travels westward across prairie grass, over a river and into the mountains. It ascends the mountains to the high clouds where a bright light guides it to a place where loved ones wait to embrace it. The spirit lives forever.
Hindus are known into believing the cycle of death and rebirth which is known as Samsara, they see all life as a cycle. Samsara is a belief that there is a continual passing process that a soul from one body moves to another. Though its not believed that the soul goes to heaven or hell, it is reborn into another body. Basically the soul repeats in a birth and death cycle or reincarnation cycle seeking for liberation. It is believed that Samsara is a way of punishment to represent the way of life.
I think that there are good as well as bad spirits that people become after death. I am a Roman Catholic. I am not particularly a religious person and I do not practice my faith a lot compared to others. I practice my faith by praying,
It is not until children grow up that they realize there are other answers to questions. We grow up believing different types of the afterlife because it is something everyone does. Even if there is no explanation or solid evidence, to keep on living, people need something to keep themselves from giving up in life if they know for sure that there is nothing for them after. Why keep living when you are going to end up being forgotten and putting everything you did be done for nothing? Believing in an afterlife or at least having an explanation in human minds about what will happen after life is needed for our cognitive thoughts to allow us to keep moving on with our
Volcano Kilauea Hawaii Imagine this, the hard rocks underneath your feet. The wind blowing in your face, and hot lava streaming through the area. Lava rocks tumble down the bigger rocks with the sound of the lava popping, reminding you of the candy pop rocks. The steam flowing up like your boiling water and needing clean water badly. Keeping eyes out watching for predators, located in the mountains of Hawaii.
The spiritual aspect of Hinduism shows the overbearing power of the “Brahman”. The Brahman also known as the World Soul comes from the sacred text of the Bhagavad Gita given to Lord Krishna. The Brahman is ones deepest self, the identity that remains beneath one’s changing self (Griffen). In Hinduism, this God is the basis of all creation, and all power worshipped in the religion. The Brahman lies at the root of all who show devotion to other gods.
Buddhism/Hinduism vs. Christianity: Afterlife The concept of afterlife is different for many. Some would say there is a heaven or hell, or some would believe in the concept of reincarnation. The answer varies from different peoples perspective in terms of their religion or personal opinion; yet despite these differences it is agreed that different concepts of afterlife in different religions can have a certain degree of similarity or comparison. Although Buddhism/Hinduism and Christianity are three different religions in terms of where the soul enters in afterlife; they do have many similarities such as a reward and punishment system and second chances to redeem oneself.
The article, Islamic Belief about the Afterlife, by Jason D. Gray, gives a brief description of what Islamic followers believe to be true of the afterlife. First, Gray breaks down the background of how Allah (God) created the afterlife. In the Qur’an (holy book), Allah created the world and seven heavens to accompany his creatures upon death. These seven heavens should not be thought of as seven distinct destinations for the dead. Rather the heavens are spatial-temporal regions distinct from earth (Gray).
According to the Buddhist tradition, after death one 's soul is either reborn into another human being or enters Nirvana. The Buddhas was the only individual in history to ever accomplish enlightenment. One of the most basic principles of Buddhism is Anatta or No Soul. The Buddha expressed rebirth as the taking on of a new soul in a new existence. He believes that the process of karma and reincarnation will continue until Nirvana is accomplished.
To believe in resurrection one must believe in god and religion. As O’Shaughnessy. T (1970) stated “all that is not God is ultimately the work of His power
If the soul is found unworthy as it crosses the bridge to the afterlife, it slips down into hell where it remains. As in the other cultures mentioned, the spirits could return to the living because of impropriety in burial or funeral
In Jainism, all life has a soul, from bacteria to plants, to animals, and to humans. Because they all have souls they all have the ability to reach nirvana. Jains do not