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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Is liberation from the wheel of rebirth like heaven?
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Kind of. It's interesting because depending on whether you believe in duality or non-duality - do you merge into the Infinite Consciousness of God or do you retain your singularity? There are many ways to answer that question and it is nice and complicated and difficult. Personally, I don't know.

It's also problematic to call it heaven because I think in this country there is a cultural association of Heaven = where good people go and Hell = where bad people go. There are no real value judgments like that in Hinduism. Everyone is liberated from the wheel of rebirth sooner or later, and the Hindu underworld is a place where everyone goes temporarily in between reincarnations to purge some karma, ponder on what they did and so on before they are reborn. But liberation will come for everyone one day, even the the militants of ISIS - it's just that if you're a terrorist it's going to take you a LONG LONG TIME and you're in for a lot of rough and painful future lives to pay for your terrorist karma before you get there.[/quote]

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