What is Hinduism view on the afterlife?

Answer 1

The concept of afterlife, is not actually referring to an actual life after death as opposed to a cycle. In Buddhism, there is a central belief that life is a cycle, a road to finding the path to one's spiritual, conscious, and physical Enlightenment, or the gaining of spiritual insight and relief of earthly suffering or desire. This was achieved by Siddhartha Gautama, or Buddha, because he took the middle way, using the eightfold path, and the basic concepts of meditative release. He attained the title of Buddha, because as there is a cycle of reincarnation for those who had not yet attained Enlightenment, he surpassed that due to his structured and devoted following.

The cycle so spoken of is the belief that with the living of each life, there is a cause and effect for every action, hence the progress known as karma, which determines how and whether or not one comes back, until they "get it right" so to speak.

Answer 2

If The Bible says the dead know nothing and are in a sleep state until the second coming of Christ then imagine where the whole thing about afterlife comes from; it's not from a good place.

Another View:

I beg your eternal pardonThere is a heaven and a hell, as you are sadly taking that quote out of context, and are assuredly misinterpreting it. It was not meant to depress people, as the Bible is all about the gospel, which is the GOOD NEWS of God. My Lord and Savior died for our sins, and rose from the dead to prove that He was God, and that through Him, we can live eternally, once our bodies decay and our spirits go to be forever with Him.

When you die, regardless of what you believe (I am sorry but beliefs don't change the facts, even the correct ones) you will either go to heaven, if you are saved and in the family of God, and are trusting in His Son, Jesus Christ's power to save you from your sins, or you go to hell, and I do not wish the latter on anyone, not even the most evil of men, as this is in God's hands, and I am quoting and not saying this as an opinion.

We are created in the image of God, as we are created to have dominion over the earth and over the plants and animals, and are created to have a wonderful relationship with our Creator and Savior and are to be with Him in heaven forever.

God (who is Jehovah, Yaweh, the God of the Jews and of Israel) wants all to go to heaven, as He sent His only Son to die on the cross for our sins, though Christ did absolutely nothing wrong to deserve any of the torture that He endured for you and for me, in hopes that you and me and everyone else who ever lived or ever will live will accept Christ's payment for our sin, for the only way to pay for the all past, present, and future sins of mankind was for the perfect Son of God to die for our sins, and to cover our sins with His precious blood, which He shed and did not spill.

Another Answer:

The afterlife is a worldwide concept devoid of Christian, Jewish, or Islamic origin.

It simply describes a condition after death. It suggests several conditions to many different ethnic belief systems.

For the Abrahamic religions, heaven, hell, purgatory, and other conditions may prevail. For most (not all) Eastern religions, the afterlife may be either simpler, or more complex. Indigenous people all over the world have different outlooks on the concept of an afterlife. For some atheists, an afterlife may not exist.

Answer

Afterlife simply means life after death. It is a place where the spirit resides until after the resurrection, when it will be reunited with its body. This reuniting will be at a time when the body was at its most perfect when on earth. There is a condition in which each person will be allotted a certain place in the afterlife according to how they behaved on earth. Common sense tels us that a person who has been good all of their lives will not be happy living in a place where people have been evil. So it is in the afterlife, each one according to their deeds.

God being a just God will give us the best place that we are suited to so that we might live out the eternities. No matter where we are assigned we will be content with our lot, knowing that we have earned the reward so given us. The scriptures are not clear on what will take place when all of this happens, except that we will know those who we associated with on earth.

The answer I give is from a Christian point of view, however one must take into consideration the first answer given, as all religions do not believe the same.

Answer 3

Jewish answer: One of the central beliefs of Judaism, as stated in the Talmud (Mishna, Sanhedrin 11:1) and codified by Rambam (Maimonides, 1135-1204), is that the soul continues to exist and is treated in accordance with the person's actions while he or she was alive. This applies to all people, whatever their religion.
The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) doesn't dwell at length on the afterlife; and nor does Judaism spend a lot of time speculating on its details. However, that is not meant to diminish from its importance. Rather, the Torah implies that we are to use the bulk of our energies in keeping God's ways and commands in this world, with our feet firmly planted on Earth, while nonetheless not losing awareness of our beliefs.
Our ancient sages stated the importance of being aware of the next world: "This world is a mere entrance-hall before the afterlife" (Mishna, Avot ch.4).

All outstanding accounts are settled after this life. Some cases illustrate this point, since this entire world wouldn't be enough to reward a Moses or punish a Hitler. And while we're alive, knowledge of the future world serves as one of the motivations to keeping God's will.

The Tanakh does not delve into detail of the rewards of the righteous because other religions could compete with even more poetic promises. Also because belief in the afterlife was shared by all ancient societies and needed little reiteration. Besides, it would be like describing the colors of a sunrise to someone who was blind from birth.
It is, however, referred to briefly in Torah verses such as Genesis 15:15, which states that "You (Abraham) will come to your fathers in peace and will be buried in good old age." Coming to his fathers does not mean simply to be buried with them, since Abraham was not buried with his ancestors. Such verses are stated many times.
The prophets are more explicit with such references (see Isaiah 26:19 and 66:24, Daniel 12:13, Zechariah 3:7, 1 Kings 8:30, 2 Kings ch.2, Ecclesiastes 12:7). The afterlife is spoken of at length in the Talmud. More than 20 pages of Talmud (Sanhedrin 90-110, Rosh Hashanah 16-18, and other passages) are given to this subject.

See also:

The key beliefs of Judaism

How do you know there are a heaven and hell?

Answer 4

According to the Katha Upanishads, an important Hindu scripture, at death, one of two things can happen. If we think we are a normal human being, with a body, mind and ego, the body will die, the mind and ego will be reborn based on our Karma. We cannot escape from Karma; death is just an end of one chapter of our life, only the body dies but the real one, the one who was alive, the one who departs, that entity is the Mind and Ego. The ME has afterlife based on Karma. Life is that of the Soul; when the Soul departs there is death, there is no breath. When we realize we are not the body, we are not even the mind and ego, then we are liberated from any afterlife. The Soul, our true identity, becomes one with the Divine. This is Moksha, Enlightenment, salvation, Nirvana.

Answer 5

That there is life after death and it depend on your deeds "karma".

Answer 6

Hinduism certainly have very firm beliefs in afterlife. In Hinduism it is known as Reincarnation (punarjanma).

Answer 7

it is called moshka