Hindu View of Death, Dying and the Afterlife

• What is the Eastern perspective on Death?
• What is this “soul” which never dies?
• What are the five bodies?
• What happens at the point of death?
• What are the inner worlds?
• What determines where one goes after death?
• What should one do to prepare for death?
• Should I fear death?
• Why must we return to a physical body?
• Great Departure

Putting an end to our fears, classical Hindu metaphysics holds the answers to the universal questions about the “end of our life”

Death is the most fateful experience of each of our lives. But no Hindu really fears death, nor does he look forward to it. Death for the Hindu is merely transition, simultaneously an end and a new beginning. Over two thousand years ago Saint Tiruvalluvar wrote that “Death is like falling asleep, and birth is like awakening from that sleep.” In one of the ancient languages of our religion, the physical body had a name which literally meant “that which is always dropping off.” When key truths are understood and accepted about the nature of the soul and the cycles of birth, life, dying, death, afterlife and rebirth, all sense of foreboding and fear of death perish. Here we explore those realities. more

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