Hinduism and life after death
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- Created on: 02-04-14 13:25
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- Hinduism and Life after Death
- atman = soul
- unchanging and eternal
- "a spirit that a sword cannot pierce, the fire cannot burn, the water cannot melt, and the air cannot dry" - BG
- unchanging and eternal
- Karma
- action or deed affecting the soul
- determinant of next life
- samchita karma = past life karma
- agami karma = present life karma
- death
- body cremated within 24 hours
- "as a man casts off his worn clothes and takes on other new ones, so does the embodies soul cast off his worn out bodies and enters others new" - BG
- babies and sanyasin not cremated
- babies automatically achieve moksha --> no moral wrongs
- finite and empty vessel, nothing more than home to the soul
- rice placed in mouth before creamtion to nourish soul
- ashes scattered in body of water (River Ganges) on fourth day
- 13 days to reincarnate
- determine next life
- anyone who dies at Varansi (home of siva) automatically achieves moksha as pollution of death is removed
- body cremated within 24 hours
- moksha
- freedom from cycle of samsara
- achieved by relinquishing desires and ceasing to be ignorant
- Hindu aim
- BG says soul can take path of moon to new body or path of sun to moksha
- freedom from cycle of samsara
- heaven and hell largely disputed
- temporary dwelling places from which one is returned to be reincarnated
- atman = soul
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