Ibrahim says; Greetings of Peace to one and all
Yes! one has a choice, they can chose to remain in the well like frogs or understand the purpose of life and amend themselves .
Now it seems rvikz would prefer his well and we have to respect that on the other hand this is a public forum so the choices we have must be clear to all.
Here let me reveal what the hindus have chosen to hide
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How does one understand where/what the hell is hell??
The reality of hell has three aspects one is that we can endure hell in this planet on the course of our daily affairs, whilst we are alive or we can endure hell as we depart ( being burnt while your soul is still present in your body (cremation), being locked up in a crypt or some other torment when the soul is still present within the body) and than after in the hereafter after the day of judgment too. ( Eternal hell)
Amongst the many religions which have scriptures as their foundation…hell has indeed been mentioned and warned against in them…as for those religions which are off shoot religions, they tend to remove the parts which mentions “hell”…. some even to the extant of removing God …thus we have varying scriptures and varying religions on this planet. Nevertheless hell is pretty well understood by most.
So let us look at hell as conveyed in the scriptures:-
**In Hinduism **.
The current Hindus do not believe there is a hell for them…..due to their misconceived notions and inability to understand what their scriptures reveal.
So let us examine what the Hindu scriptures reveal
READ!!!
Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad (Radhakrishnan), IV.4.8-9
**Into blind darkness enter they who worship ignorance… Those worlds covered with blind darkness are called joyless. (meaning hell) **To them after death go those people who have not knowledge, who are not awakened.
Commentary :-
A world of Darkness ( hell) is the place where souls that are ignorant will be sent to…. Ignorant of what? ..A question hindus must ask themselves…indeed this is a reference to ignorance of their Creator and not ignorance of how to live our life’s on this planet.
Let us read another verse
The Laws of Manu, 12:16-17
After the death of men who have done bad deeds, another solid body, designed to be tortured, is born out of the five elements. When (the living souls) here have suffered with that body the tortures given by Yama, (the bodies) dissolve, each part distributed into its own basic element.
Commentary: according to this verse the dead are brought back to life and than tortured…why would they be tortured??? Hence it has to be understood that man will be tortured on the basis of his actions and not all man will be tortured.
Let us venture further to find out the reasons for the (torture/world of darkness, a world without joy that man will be sent to after death) lets read
Gita: 7:23
“Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. ** Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods (meaning : hell)**, but My devotees ultimately reach My planet.”
Yajur Veda 40:9.
"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti – the material cause of the world – in place of the All-pervading God, BUT THOSE WHO WORSHIP VISIBLE THINGS BORN OF THE PRAKRTI, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." –
This is merely further confirmed in yet another verse:
Yajur Veda 32:3
**“The Formless Supreme Spirit that pervades the universe can have NO MATERIAL REPRESENTATION, LIKENESS OR IMAGE.” – **
Hence Hell is the destiny of those who worship the invented gods/idols and any thing that can be seen…even though this is the fact those who follow Hinduism/Buddhism are denying it today by confusing themselves with the karmic laws.