[Interviewer] Acharya Shree, most people on Earth fear death.
And wonder where they go afterwards. What is the truth?
It is the real question.
Not only human beings. All kind of living beings, even the insects, bugs, ants, flies, mosquitos, or little bacterias...
They are all afraid of death. This is the basic fear.
We are carrying. All the living beings, they are carrying that fear.
And I call it the basic fear.
All the other fears are included in this fear. People are afraid of God.
People are afraid of guilt. People are afraid of anything else.
Telling a lie or this or that. These are all fears included in the fear of death.
And it is very good question you ask.
That where we go afterward when we die.
Everybody has a different way to go. The way we collected karma, the karma is in control of us.
They take you, whatever you collected - the karma, they will give you that kind of parents.
If you collected bad karma you will get bad parents.
You might be born in very poor family.
But sometimes if you collected very good karma and somehow bad karma is on the way, you might get to be born in the poor family, but you will get very good parents.
They will guide you, they will teach you, they will put all of their efforts to make you the best person in the society.
They may be spiritual already. They may be spiritually-advanced already.
Even they are poor. Or vice versa.
Let me tell you, when a person dies there are symptoms where he or she's going after the death.
Suppose you are sitting with that person.
And that person has maybe couple days more left.
That person, if that person is going to be born again human, he or she will tell you that why thousands of humans are gathering here?
Why this big gathering? They are dressing beautifully, they are very well-dressed. They are, if the person is going to born in the spiritual family, why they are chanting lot of mantras?
Tell me why are they chanting? They will talk like that.
But if that person who's dying collected very bad karma and bad karma is taking that soul down into the animal kingdom, so that person will see lot of animals around.
They will talk, why are all these animals around me? They are trying to hit me.
I am afraid. I am afraid. The person who is going even below that animal kingdom, so, they will see something else when they are dying.
They will see that there are Yamaduta, messengers of the Death.
They are coming close to me. They are grabbing my hand, pulling me. And they don't care I am screaming.
Can you release, can you help me?
That's the way they will see those things.
And that is the symptom. But if you collected very good karma, you might be an angel.
If there is Hell, there is maybe the Heaven too.
The angels live in the Heaven. And angels don't have a physical body.
By the way. They are...just have subtle bodies. Their bodies are like astral body.
Air body. It's invisible.
So, the angel body, if the person collected so many good karmas, he will talk when he's dying, that look at so many angels are coming from the sky.
And their faces are so much glowing. They are beautiful.
He begins to see like lot of angels around him or her.
That is the symptom. And let me give you if they don't even talk, if they are unconcious, they don't talk.
I will give you another symptom.
When soul leaves this body, if soul leaves through the feet and legs, below your hips, that person is going very very down.
Down, [more] down than the animal kingdom.
Or maybe what people call hell - suffering always.
Hell means where there is suffering - always suffering, pain.
So you will see that part of the body where the soul is going out is warmer than the rest of the body.
That is the symptom. If someone, if you have to touch after he died or she died, touch where the warmer part of the body.
If you will see stomach, suppose, it means the person - like here, from chest to stomach area - if it is really warm there, you can touch, you can feel it.
So the person becomes human again.
And if the soul is coming through the mouth, coming out through the mouth, his mouth will be open when he dies or she dies.
So it means that person is going to be an angel.
Or his hair straight up, right there, because the soul is going out from the head.
It means a very good angel and high angels, can help other people.
So there are 4 symptoms like through the feet is like Hell or suffering, from the knees to hip it is like animals, and from the navel to the chest like the human, and above it is like heavenly being.
Always in luxuries, always in happy situation, always very good parents, always happiness around.
No struggling at all. No in the poor family at all. Like heaven.
So these are the symptoms. But if person speaks, I spoke already what they see, so they are going there.
So afterwards, according to whatever you have done, the deeds that are good, you are bound to be there.
So I will suggest you collect always good karma so your soul will take you, or your karma will take you towards the right direction, towards the spiritual family.
Otherwise, a person who has collected bad karma, maybe he is becoming human, but maybe he will become a butcher.
Kill all animals. Or he can be a fisher, collect all the fish and crabs from the ocean and sell.
He's collecting all the bad karma now and he collected bad karma before.
So it is up to the person. Collect good or bad.
I will suggest always good, positive and good, do good.
Do good, get good. Do bad, get bad.
That's the karma works. And they take you in that kind of life.
So be aware.