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> Dear Sir,
>
> I am the president o Hindu society in the city of Tulsa the United states of
> America. Recently I was confronted by a question by an American which was "
> Meaning of Death in Hinduism " . I really could not find the exact answer for
> the same , for the depth he wanted was immense.
Well, I think that the Bhagavad Gita may provide a satisfactory
answer to this question. At the start, Arjuna is in a sorrowful statement --
telling Krishna that he does not want to kill his cousins (ie. Kauravas).
In response to this, Krishna tells Arjuna that he should not grieve even
for great figures like Bhisma and Drona because all people are eternal in
the real sense and not to be grieved for. This advice is given from the
standpoint of Self-realization.
Since Brahman is immutable, undecaying, and eternal it does not make
sense to say that someone has "died" in an absolute sense. In Hinduism, when
one dies -- his/her soul is simply reborn in another body. Of course, the
status of the new body depends on the karma that was accumulated in previous
lives. If one behaves like an animal in his life, then he will be reborn as
one. Conversely, if one is pious during life -- he will be born into an
even more pious family. The Gita makes several analogies in this manner.
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