Why Is a Soul Reborn in a Particular Religion in This World?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Anil Antony asked: After the death nobody remembers his or her religion in the upper world and also no Hindu, Christian or Islam heaven/hell exists in the upper world. In such case why soul is reborn in a particular religion again in this world?]

Swami replied: The feelings developed here follow the soul to the upper world whether it is hell or heaven. There is no separate hell or heaven for each religion because good deeds and bad deeds are irrespective of any religion. Still, the attachment to the culture of a specific religion remains as it is with the soul. The soul takes birth here in a specific religion based on such specific attachment. The Gita says that the soul is born according to the attachment with a specific feeling that existed before death (yamyambhaavam…). The universality of religions is also similar to any other feeling of a specific religion. Whatever may be the religion, the basic concepts of pravrutti and nivrutti are exactly one and the same in all religions. The grace of God is based on your following the spiritual knowledge and not on a specific religion. You are tested in physics or chemistry and not in the language you have studied the subject. Religion is only a diversion from the basic path. Those who are incapable of implementing the spiritual knowledge only are more bothered about the religion. Religion is just a language and spiritual knowledge is its meaning. God spoke the same concepts in the scriptures of all religions.

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