Death & Afterlife in Indian Mythology by Matthew Ruckoldt https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot Made with magic en-us 2018-04-17 14:29:45 UTC 2018-04-18 15:38:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 5 Possible things that can determine your fate https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613725 1. Previous Deeds
2. State of Mind
3. Time of Death
4. Activities of Children
5. Grace of God]]> 2018-04-17 15:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613725 Suicide would be used as a way for people to liberate themselves from their body 8008093 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613818 2018-04-17 15:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613818 Two paths https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613831 Souls take either the path of the sun or the path of the moon

]]> 2018-04-17 15:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613831 can be reincarnated after death, a very common occurrence https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613863 2018-04-17 15:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613863 "Karma" https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613893 The person's deeds throughout his life will determine his placement in afterlife/ next life

]]> 2018-04-17 15:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252613893 Dying in battle takes you to the heaven of warriors https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614102 2018-04-17 15:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614102 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614116 Suicide used to be a part of the traditions in ancient India based on the ideas of reincarnation. ]]> 2018-04-17 15:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614116 Temporary stay in heaven/hell https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614157 until reincarnation

]]> 2018-04-17 15:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614157 was considered a good option to get rid of "past karmas" at the end of a prolonged self purification process 8011100 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614168 2018-04-17 15:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614168 whatever you are thinking about when you die is what type of "heaven" you will end up in https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614295 2018-04-17 15:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614295 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614344 Is reincarnated based of his thoughts at the time of death, previous deeds and grace of god ]]> 2018-04-17 15:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614344 Place where you rest before reincarnation depends upon what you were thinking before death, what kind of person you were, and which god you worshiped. https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614349 2018-04-17 15:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614349 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614378 death = not
 scary bc its not permanent ]]> 2018-04-17 15:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614378 8008093 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614422 The first historic emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya, went to a cave to waste away and achieve liberation from the body he inhabited]]> 2018-04-17 15:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614422 Reincarnation depends upon your thoughts and actions https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614463 2018-04-17 15:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614463 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614470 Your soul is your Jiva and stays with you throughout all your lives unlike the physical body]]> 2018-04-17 15:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614470 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614519  One is the path of the sun, also known as the bright path or the path of gods and the other is the path of the moon, also known as the dark path and the path of ancestors]]> 2018-04-17 15:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614519 Varying heavens for varying deeds in life https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614525 2018-04-17 15:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614525 Paths https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614527 Sun : soul doesn't return
Moon: soul returns]]> 2018-04-17 15:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614527 If you don't get funeral rights it prolongs the reincarnation process https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614682 2018-04-17 15:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614682 special afterlife location for people who commit suicide https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614863 2018-04-17 15:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614863 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614993 soul is continually reborn until you reach a level of purity (dharma)

]]> 2018-04-17 15:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252614993 Grace of God https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615085 The Gods can interfere with your fate and circumstances of death if they feel you have a specific fate]]> 2018-04-17 15:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615085 Reincarnation places a soul in a new body https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615111 2018-04-17 15:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615111 the life and afterlife is temporary https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615151 2018-04-17 15:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615151 God/Deities can choose where you go based off of devotion in life https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615178 2018-04-17 15:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615178 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615190 worlds including that of Brahma are subject to rebirth, but on reaching Him there is no birth.]]> 2018-04-17 15:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615190 It was not uncommon for the wives of warriors committing ritual suicide when their husbands died in the wars 8008093 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615203 2018-04-17 15:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615203 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615360 can't remember past lives ]]> 2018-04-17 15:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615360 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615539 We cannot have likes and dislikes, preferences, prejudices and attachment and yet expect ourselves be liberated]]> 2018-04-17 15:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615539 reincarnation was a later development to the vedas https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615549 2018-04-17 15:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615549 Dying when thinking about family gets you reincarnated in that same family https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615620 2018-04-17 15:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615620 Activities of Children https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615718 The children have to do traditional burial rights, or it might delay their trip into the afterlife]]> 2018-04-17 15:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252615718 was more casual/common than in most cultures, some people doing it bc they fail a test or stuff https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252616679 2018-04-17 15:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252616679 Suicide was not an uncommon occurrence https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252616775 The taboo our society has on suicide isn't present in their society. This is due to their belief in many lives and death not being permanent. There are even situations where suicide seems to be an act of Dharma and is the right thing to do.]]> 2018-04-17 15:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252616775 The Sun and Moon https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252618260 If someone reaches the Sun path it means they've won the grace of Brahman and they do not have to be reincarnated. The people in the moon path are reincarnated to try again in another life.]]> 2018-04-17 15:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252618260 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252618540 Suicide is something that should be addressed by elders of the society.]]> 2018-04-17 15:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/252618540 the purpose of after life is neither to punish nor reward the souls, but to remind them of the true purpose of their existence https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054136 2018-04-18 15:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054136 Cremated not buried https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054147 2018-04-18 15:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054147 Five elements of jiva https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054504 Fire
Earth 
Water
Air
Ether]]> 2018-04-18 15:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054504 Returned to the 5 constituent elements https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054551 2018-04-18 15:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054551 If Rites and proceedings are not followed within a day or two of death, it'll take longer for them to be reincarnated. https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054594 2018-04-18 15:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054594 When to not cremate https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054761 1. very young children are buried 
2. Highly enlightened leaders are buried in tombed
3. sent out into the Ganges ]]> 2018-04-18 15:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054761 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054764 A soul doesn't necessarily have to stay in the world that it died in. The point of the journey during after life is to learn important lessons for their next journeys on earth. ]]> 2018-04-18 15:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054764 each of the trinity gods has one of their own worlds--which is full of their followers after death https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054766 2018-04-18 15:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253054766 Head faces towards Ganesh, and feet pointed towards Yama. https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055045 2018-04-18 15:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055045 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055134 believed in the existence of two worlds apart from ours, the world of ancestors and that of gods. 

]]> 2018-04-18 15:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055134 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055273 It should not matter to soul whether it has gone to a heaven or to some 🤬, because the soul is eternally pure and not subject to pain and suffering.]]> 2018-04-18 15:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055273 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055315 a soul can exist in many places]]> 2018-04-18 15:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055315 8008093 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055408 after death devoted souls would go and live in the company of their chosen deities and other pure souls]]> 2018-04-18 15:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055408 Has the ability to learn and grow even in the afterlife to approach closer to moksha https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055481 2018-04-18 15:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055481 Goals of Hinduism https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055693 essentially solution to the problem of death isn't heaven, but instead it is liberation ]]> 2018-04-18 15:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055693 Whatever residual memory and sense of identity the jiva carried after death is either exhausted in the other planes along with its previous karma or further compressed beyond recognition before the jiva incarnates again 8008093 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055890 2018-04-18 15:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253055890 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056032 -gods represented the life forces and renewal of life
-demons represented the forces of death and destruction]]> 2018-04-18 15:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056032 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056165 A jiva which goes to heaven, will enjoy the pleasures of heaven and in the end realizes that seeking heavenly pleasures is not the ultimate goal since however intense these pleasures may be, they would not last long. A soul which falls into the darker world gets a taste of the horror of the evil it tried to promote on earth, with a multiplier effect and with an intensity and severity that would make it realize the horrors of evil]]> 2018-04-18 15:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056165 Ash is spread to send the five elements back to their proper place https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056776 2018-04-18 15:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056776 https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056814 indralok= resting place of pure souls (heaven) 
pitralok= world of ancestores
yamalok= hell ruled by yama ]]> 2018-04-18 15:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253056814 In Hinduism, unless a soul is liberated, neither life nor after life are permanent. They are both part of a grand illusion. https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253057235 2018-04-18 15:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253057235 Body is given a bath in their home from life, then carried by family to cremating grounds https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253058955 2018-04-18 15:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mruckoldt/91ug5io35uot/wish/253058955