What does the soul experience at the time of death?
From: Jugal
What is its condition when it is getting out of the body? After getting out of the body what does the soul experience?
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Question from Jugal Prabhu. What did the soul experience at the time of condition when it is getting out of the body? After getting out of the body, what does it experience? Answer, suffering.
The soul suffers extremely at the time of death because of three reasons. First is that it is losing everything that it has worked to achieve. It is going to lose all the people who it has loved.
And it experiences pain because the body is breaking down. And it experiences fear because it doesn’t know where it is going to go. So, the soul often has to be pulled out from the body by force.
And the soul is going to go to the hellish planet. And the soul doesn’t want to go out. Sometimes it hovers around the body, hoping that it might just be able to re-enter the body.
That’s why in the Vedic tradition, it is recommended that the body be burned so that the soul loses the hopeless hope of returning to the body. And then it becomes ready to do the next destination without too much fuss or muss. And the soul often experiences great fear and regret as it is moving along through the body because it realizes that now I’ll have to account for my actions.
He laments the misdeeds that he has performed.