2017 January « Avatar Meher Baba Hyderabad Center

Reincarnation and Karma [19]– Hell and Heaven: Retrospective survey of earthly experiences

Termination of hell and heaven: Just as a phonograph record is set aside after the needle has traveled through each […]

Time in semi-subtle world: Hell and heaven are both states of bondage, however, and subject to the limitations of the […]

Bodily sensations of coarser desires: Thus in the finer desires, the actual sensations play a subordinate role to the derivative […]

Coarser desires contribute to hell state:

Some desires have a direct relation to the possession and assimilation […]

In fact, even in the earthly sphere of existence some individuals develop this capacity of making their pleasure independent of […]

In the heaven state the fulfillment of desires is not, as in the gross sphere, dependent upon having the object […]

In life after death the experiences of pain and pleasure become much more intense than they were in earthly life. […]

After death there is no consciousness of the gross world for the ordinary soul, since such consciousness is directly dependent […]

In normal cases, death occurs when all the sanskaras seeking fructification are worked out. When the soul […]

In such cases, the discarnate soul experiences an irresistible impulsion toward the gross world and craves gross objects so badly […]