Afterlife is not even philosophy; it’s simply theology, present in every major religion. Science today confirms that there is nothing that survives the body. So, for whom are heaven and hell? It only takes one away from the direct realities of life because one is constantly dreaming of the afterlife. It is just an extremely venomous belief system.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji.
Acharya Prashant: Welcome.
Questioner: So since I belong to the Abrahamic religion background, we have been fed since childhood about the afterlife, heaven and hell concept. I understand that this concept is also fear-based and over the years you make sense of what direction you want to go in terms of the afterlife. But it is so deeply ingrained and fed that there's nothing else that can be the truth.
I mean even thinking about something different than this is so challenging because we are deeply conditioned. Now all of the people who really believe in this they're not bad human beings. They're really doing their best through this path, through this idea and they're compassionate. They are helping others.
And most of the things that we read, and we understand from the Gita, they're pretty much even applying that in their day-to-day life. But then with the afterlife not being the ultimate truth, does it negate everything that they are doing in this life?
