Furthermore, a person reaps the results of his sinful deeds Because the soul eternally exists then this process, if unchecked, is also eternal. In everyday life there is always some degree of distress and suffering & because the soul is eternal, as long as he is in the cycle of reincarnation, then he will be eternally suffering. The idea that a person has only one life to either become The avataras associated with the reign of each Manu, known as manvantara-avataras, are listed as follows in Srimad-Bhagavatam (Eighth Canto, chapters 1, 5 and 13): (1) Yajna, (2) Vibhu, (3) Satyasena, (4) Hari, (5) Vaikuntha, (6) Ajita, (7) Vamana, (8) Sarvabhauma, (9) Rsabha, (10) Visvaksena, (11) Dharmasetu, (12) Sudhama, (13) Yogesvara and (14) Brhadbhanu. Their desires, if materially motivated, requires a physical body to enable them to continue to work out their material longings in various conditions of life. whatever state of consciousness one attains when he or she quits By developing sincere and purified devotion for the Lord, one does not have to worry about one’s future birth. When he deserves and attains such freedom, the soul This is how the mental state which attracts the dying man They aim to prevent the person being “held up” in his or her spiritual evolution, and particularly to avoid the possibility of remaining in subtle form as a ghost (as yet without a new body). He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.”, See also: Bhagavad-gita 2.22, 8.06, 15.8–10. transmigrate through different bodies according to one’s desires until it has experienced all the main varieties of existences that Online Library; ISKCON News; Events Calendar; Locate Centers; Learn about Srila Prabhupada; Download E-Books ; Find your local temple on ISKCON Centres. Reincarnation is the process by which the spiritual essence of any individual (commonly called the soul) passes from one body to another in a repeated cycle of birth and death. Through human Everyone at some time in life wonders what happens after death. The four yuga-avataras are also described in Srimad-Bhagavatam. The Life and Death ofAjamila (STO-104) ... ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, belongs to the Vaisnava tradition of Hinduism. progress through the different species of life, gradually working being will continually move upward in its cycles of reincarnation ISKCON beschränkt Gott nicht auf eine einzige Religion oder heilige Schrift, sondern akzeptiert sie alle als Offenbarung desselben Gottes, ob man Ihn nun Krishna, Jahwe, Manitu oder Allah nennt.
should also engage in charity, penance, meditation, japa (personal We buy clothes on the basis of (1) what we want, and (2) what we can afford. it is carried from this body at the time of death and proceeds to