What happens to the soul after death in Hinduism?

[alma088]

According to Hinduism, the soul after death travel through various stages and takes rebirth in order to pay back the past life's action. And this cycle of death and rebirth continues until the soul becomes free from all dues of his past and present life.

 

[Ajay0]

The soul's essential nature is pure consciousness. But this essential nature is defiled by vasanas or impurities created by raag-dvesh or cravings and aversions caused by strong ego-centric desires.

When these vasanas are removed by self-discipline, meditation and spiritual practice there is no rebirth and the soul rests in its natural state of pure conciousness charecterised by joy and peace.

There is a book called 'The Autobiography of a Yogi' by Paramahamsa Yogananda which sheds more life on this topic. This book helped me a lot in losing my fear of death or loss.

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli considered this book as the source of his inspiration, and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had this book on his ipad, and 500 copies of this book was given at his memorial service after Job's death, as per his instructions.