What is hell in the afterlife?

In religion and folklore, hell is a location in the afterlife in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as eternal punishment after death.

What is another term for rebirth?

Words related to rebirth comeback, recovery, rehabilitation, rejuvenation, renaissance, renewal, restoration, revival, regeneration, resurrection, awakening, metempsychosis, reincarnation, renascence, revivification, transmigration, reawakening.

What is the difference between heaven-hell concept and rebirth concept?

In the heaven-hell concept, pious go to Swarga(heaven) and sinners go to Naraka(hell). However, if one has good/bad karma, the rebirth concept says that he/she will enjoy/suffer in their next births. How can both these theories be true when they contradict each other?

Do heaven and hell exist?

Heaven and hell don’t exist as objective realities, they are not a real place somewhere. These two places represent the two extremes of the mind; they exist in your head, inside you. Heaven and hell are psychological states. Hell is built on fear, while Heaven is built on desire.

Will I be free from all my Karmas when I enter Heaven?

Going to heaven and hell doesn’t mean you will be free from all your karmas, there are some karmas for which you must go to either heaven or hell and the others, you must experience after rebirth. – Pinakin May 23 ’17 at 10:37

What happens to people who go to lower heaven or hell?

For those people who do go to either lower heaven or hell are reborn in the earth plane after their punya (merit) due to extraordinary good deed (reason for going to lower heaven) or paapa (demerit) due to extraordinary evil deed (reason for going to hell) are exhausted. The physical body dies but the mind and the senses leave the physical body.