How Are Souls in Animal Bodies Judged by God?

[Smt. Priyanka Seethepalli asked: Also, is the fate of some herbivores animals decided by birth that they will be killed and eaten by some carnivores’ animals? A carnivore animal, by nature, is designed to hunt and kill and eat other animals. How is judgement done for animals? Also, once an animal or any creature dies, do their souls get energetic bodies like that animal only? Do they also wait for judgement like human souls have to wait 10 days for hear their fate?]

Swami replied: Once the soul enters the cycle of births of animals and birds, generally they continue with the same attitudes in the same forms. A tiger killing goat is born as goat and the goat is born as tiger just like the butcher is born as goat and the goat is born as butcher in the next life. This cycle is very dangerous since it continues generally forever. As far as the main soul is concerned, there is no difference between human beings and animals. The rules are one and the same. After death, the soul of animal enters the energetic form of animal, which is its subtle body. While undergoing punishments in hell, the soul in the energetic animal form also realizes like the soul in the human form.

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