​Are reports of people having gone to Yamaraja and returned true?

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So sometimes some people may have an after life experience when they may encounter Yamaraj and they may come back after that so how do we understand this and there is two things about this which I would like to say first is that as I started by talking about empirically examinable experiences and those which are non empirically examinable so there are different as I said different aspects of near death experiences which can be stressed at different levels so one challenge that one of the strongest criticisms of near death experiences that skeptics have is that different people perceive the post death realm according to their religious beliefs so for example Christians encounter Jesus Hindus encounter Yamaraj Muslims encounter something according to their religious beliefs so the idea is the Buddhists they experience Buddha something like that so they say basically this proves that this is simply an imagination based on your own cultural conception of the afterlife and the the Vedic tradition Yoga tradition has an answer to this there is there are some Christian researchers who try to prove that only faithful Christians have good near death experiences and everybody has horrible near death experiences that means they try to bring their religious bias into the study of near death experiences but they couldn’t really prove it like that so because from their perspective Jesus is the, that’s what many Christians believe, Jesus is the only way and they say if anybody else is not surrendering to Jesus then they are going to go to hell, that’s the idea so now from the Vedic perspective we understand that there is one God and he sent different messengers so the post death realm is also not uniform in the post death realm also there are multiple levels so and the spiritual icons or the religious guides whom we have chosen in our life they that, the connection is not just during this lifetime the connection goes on beyond this lifetime and that’s why it’s entirely conceivable it’s that you know Hindus are followers of the yogic path they will encounter some figures according to their understandings because they are being guided that way so Jesus, so Christians may experience Jesus, the yogic path accepts that Jesus is also a son of God, he is also a powerful representative of God Buddha is also a manifestation of God so the variety of experiences in the after death realm they can be explained from the from the Vedic perspective so that’s why but because this slightly complicates the issue, so what normally we talk about near death experiences this takes us in the subjective realm but in the objective realm if we stay then we can actually point to it as hardcore evidence so when it comes to individual experiences, individual experiences such as these, they are usually good for for believers to reinforce their beliefs but the objective evidences, they are what are helpful for non-believers to start questioning their disbelief and to take the journey towards spiritual exploration and then maybe some spiritual growth afterwards so these experiences are also very powerful and for the individual particularly they can be very transformational thank you for sharing that