The idea of karma and death has always perplexed me. How in this life our actions, and thoughts can follow us into the next. The Hindu texts we've been assigned reflect this idea the most I believe, and directly explains what happens to those who live an immoral life. You can be punished for years, decades, even centuries, stuck in the wheels of karma. I believe the idea of karma was probably some type of scare tactic, encouraging the common man to do good or else...
Now this idea of being punished in the after life isn't an original one, we see it in many of the texts we've been assingned. But karma to me, is something we hear spoken about more today, then hell itself. To me, being able to apply such an age old idea to our modern lives speaks volumes about its popularity, and how applicable it still is today.
Karma can either make an individual absolutely fear death, or it can have quite the opposite effect on a person. If you know in your heart you've lived a just, and moral life, than you can rest assured that when you die, karma will do right by your soul. The same idea is reflected in Christian texts aswell, Dante's inferno, upAnishads, and many more. Also the idea of purgatory comes to mind, the idea of being stuck in between heaven, and hell. How does one go about fixing their wrong doings, if their already stuck in a limbo game of heaven, and hell? What do you Gus think?
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