Tuesday - September 11, 2007

What Becomes of the Soul After Death?

What is the afterlife like for ordinary people or for those that are liberated? What does the liberated soul do in the afterlife? If one is liberated are they kept separate from those who are not? What decides where a person goes after death?

Because of their unique karma, no two people have the same experiences after birth in this world. It is just the same with “birth” into the astral worlds. Each person’s experiences will continue to be distinctively theirs.

One thing and one thing only determines where we go after death: our level of consciousness–our evolutionary status. What happens after we get there is determined by our karma.

A liberated person will have control over where he goes and what takes place there. But no world is inaccessible to him–including the earth plane.

You might find Sivananda’s book WHAT BECOMES OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH? useful. It can be downloaded from www.sivanandaonline.org.

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