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Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: What do Hindu scriptures say about death?

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What Is the Purpose of Life?

Guru Pannitsa established the concept that your life is a function of all the things that you did in the past. Hinduism doesn't talk much about these ideas as the monastic orders we talk about. The ghosts and monsters feature prominently in Hinduism. You have it in Anuma and Jalisya where you recited to shed that fear. How do they feature in this cycle of life and death? Imagine if somebody went on a journey and he died and nobody in his family knew that he died. What will happen to their spirits? They would get trapped in the land of the living. There can be sorcerers who catch them and turn them into what is Vaital

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