ABSTRACT
Every society has developed its own ideas on how humans are created, what is their soul, and what will happen to them after death. When someone thinks about life after death, his or her thoughts may drift to religion. Religion obviously satisfies a human need, at least up to now. Also, it has formed the underpinning of a belief in life after death. The books of the Old Testament have very little to say about life after death. What does the Hindu religion have to say about life after death? When the Buddha, Gautama, was asked what happens at death to the individual who, in life, has attained to Nirvana, he fudged. The fact that several centuries elapsed after the Buddha’s death before his remembered words were set down in literary form must surely have scrambled to some unknown degree the accuracy and precision of his recorded views on spirit life.
