Questions tagged [heaven]
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Will a sati go to heaven or hell?
Parasara Smriti 4.30 “A widow, who immolates herself on the same funeral pile with her deceased husband, resides in heaven for ten millions of years, which is the number of hairs on the human body.”
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Does the Dvaita Vedanta school of thought of Hinduism believe in eternal heaven?
https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/a/44487/22556
This is an answer to the question that I asked about different schools of thought in Hinduism.
In the Dvaita Vedanta school it is written that the soul ...
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Can one achieve moksha in heaven/swarg lok? [duplicate]
After death one will either go to heaven or hell and then he will reincarnate on earth.
So can someone attain Moksha while he is in heaven.
If no then why
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What is the correct interpretation of these verse from kaushitaki upanishad?
He going by the path by which the immortal gods travel reaches the world of Agni (fire), then to the world of Vayu (air), then to the world of Varuna, then to the world of Aditya (sun), then to the ...
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Is heaven (savarglok) a physical thing or it is just metaphorical
There are many scholar who say that heaven is physical but there many scholar that says heaven is metaphorical. Which is correct.
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From heaven they come, they visit earth, and rising ...
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What are the luxuries of Swarga Loka? And how Swarga Loka has been defined in the Vedas? [closed]
Can some one fulfill his unsatisfied desires. And after enjoying in sawarg lok can one decide how he /she wants to reincarnate him/herself.reincarnation happens with our will or against our will.
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Are all worlds and existences except God temporary in Hinduism?
From what I can gather, the Vedas and Upanishads and Hinduism in general state that punishment via hell or rebirth in a bad state of life, and Heaven or rebirth in a good state are always temporary as ...
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Where in Hindu scriptures does the concept of the five trees in Svarga come from?
I'm intetested in knowing where the idea of the 5 trees in Svarga or Devaloka (Pancavriksha, Kalpavriksha) is described in the Hindu scriptues. I'm especially interested in the earliest occurences ...
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If there is hell and heaven in Hinduism. Then why is there rebirth and moksh? [duplicate]
We see the concept of rebirth and moksha , while we also see hell and heaven in Hinduism. Garuda purana says a lot about punishments in hell
Also read https://www.quora.com/If-early-Hinduism-believed-...
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what is the highest abode for Vaishnavite sects?
Srivaishnavites and Madhwites seem to regard Vaikuntha as the highest abode. For Gaudiyas it seems to be "Goloka" -
I am looking for a systematic exposition of the conception of the ultimate ...
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Which scripture has the story of the prostitute and the Sannyasi?
They lived across from each other and the Sannyasi would throw a pebble into a pile for each time somebody visited her. Soon the pebbles became a small hill and he would tell her "look at the ...