What Happens After Death?

The Soul takes Birth each time, and each time a mind, life and body are formed out of the materials of universal Nature according to the soul's past evolution and its need for the future.When the body is dissolved, the vital goes into the vital plane and remains there for a time, but after a time the vital sheath disappears. The last to dissolve is a mental sheath. Finally the soul or physic being retries into the physic world to rest there till a new birth is close.This is the general course for ordinarily developed human beings. There are variations according to the nature of the individuals and his developments. For example, if the mental is strongly developed, then the mental being can be remain; so also can the vital, provided they are organized by and centered around the the true physic being; they share the immortality of the physic.

The soul gathers the essential elements of its experiences in life and makes that its basis of growth in the evolution;when it returns to birth it takes up with its mental, vital, physical sheaths so much of its Karma as is useful to it in the new life for further experiences.It is really for the vital part of the being that Shraddha and rites are done - to help the being to get rid of the vital vibrations which still attach it to the earth or vital worlds, so that it may pass quickly to its rest in the physic peace.
There is after death a period in which one passes through the vital world and lives there for a time. It is only the first part of the transit that can be dangerous & painful; in the rest one works out, under certain surroundings, the remnant of the vital desires and instincts which one had in the body. As soon as one is tired of these and able to go beyond, the vital sheath is dropped and a soul after a time needed to get rid of some mental survivals passes into a state of rest in the physic world and remains there till next next life on earth.

Thursday, February 14, 2008