Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. We know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only changes form. So when someone leaves the body, the person changes form, where and what depending on the actions performed. If one engages in positive deeds, one moves into a positive form. Negative deeds lead to negative dimensions. The concept of heaven and hell stems from here and is a reality, accepted by religions and cultures across the globe.
In heaven, if one indulges in pleasure, karma gets exhausted and the person is reborn. It is only the Vedic seers who could see beyond heaven, for those who want to go beyond pleasure. It is only the Vedic philosophers who perceived dimensions beyond the swah loka—maha, jana, tapa and satyaloka—that is the ability of the guru who takes you beyond. No other school of thought has conceived the guru, implying only the guru can take you and show you what lies beyond.
When I see animals going hungry, cows being butchered, milk being produced by starving calves, people in the name of religious groups organising rave parties and dancing all night, I am convinced hell is awaiting. If one does no charity or service, lives for just oneself, or turns his face away from a crime, then the person is a bigger criminal than other criminals. To balance the crime, the individual will experience hell.
In hell, one is taken through certain purification processes and interestingly, the individual who is in hell does not know that one has left the body and feels whatever is happening is for real.
Imagine boiling oil thrown at your face, seeing your skin melting and shrinking and disfiguring. The pain is excruciating and never-ending. A powerful jet of ice cold water is poured on the soft part of your head. You are unable to breathe, yet you are breathing and with every passing instant you feel the water is going to choke you, it doesn’t because you are already dead. That is hell. Heavy weights are tied on to your back and you are thrown into the middle of the ocean at night, and you keep sinking and sinking into the pitch dark, bottomless ocean. Water has filled up your lungs, you are out of breath and yet you are not dying, and continue to sink deeper and deeper. That, again, is hell. A nail is hammered into your body, till it pierces all the layers and the blood flows out. You are so numb with pain and want to die and be free of this pain but you don’t because you are already dead. The process goes on. Your arms and legs are stretched and tied to a wooden plank attached to a wheel, which keeps rotating until in your agony you feel you are being torn apart. Your muscles tear, your bones break and you want to die and end the pain, but you are already dead.
Every religion speaks about hell. Some of you might have these visions in your dreams; what you saw was, in fact, hell. Especially those who feel claustrophobic and have inherent fears are only reliving your hellish experiences, which you do not remember. Why go through the trauma once again? Why not instead do good deeds to avoid it. Sanatan Kriya is a simple tool which will reveal all these dimensions to you and indicate where you are headed and how to avoid the pain that awaits you. We are living in a world where cows are butchered, hot oil is poured over dogs, humans go hungry and monkeys are homeless; the doors to hell await all those who are a party to such things, including the ones who watch silently, thinking that nothing will happen to them. I am giving you an opportunity to wake up and change the course of your life. In this article, I have discussed only hell. There is something deeper than that where the trauma is manifold, which is called raurav. If this article doesn’t change your thought process, then the next, which will describe raurav, definitely will.
Yogi Ashwini is the spiritual head of Dhyan Ashram.
(dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com)