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Afterlife
A new version and creation of afterlife: This has been mainly the topic of religions to talk about afterlife and relating the life in the world with the afterlife. They link the good or bad conditions in afterlife as reflecting the deeds of human beings in the life before death. It is an effective way to direct anyone’s behavior by frightening him that if he would do wrongdoings then he must have to face the aftermath afterlife. Despite of their effectiveness, the description and ideas of afterlife by these religions or popularly held views may have some contradictions and they need to be thought upon from the beginning. In this essay, a new version of afterlife has been created while getting help from the literature on this topic. However, the originality of the version in this essay is that such depiction of afterlife has never been made earlier to the best of knowledge and the aspects of afterlife which are already popular have been kept intact so that it is convenient to understand the points in this essay. First, it is useful to reflect on major points of afterlife which make it effective and influential over the lives of common man. One of the main points of afterlife is it guarantees continuity of life because it links itself with the life in this world or life before death. Another aspect of afterlife is its relation with the life before death as rewards and punishments in afterlife are based on deeds in life before death. Another aspect of afterlife is its different phases and the phase immediate after the death is temporary which leads to last destination which is permanent and would never change. Although, these aspects may not be considered in all versions of afterlife but in most of the instances these are present. In light of the literature on afterlife and writer’s own creativity has capitalized on the aspects of continuity, connection of rewards and punishments, and different phases of afterlife in this essay. In this way, these aspects make afterlife as the result of life before death which is necessary because the afterlife has direct effect on the actions of human being in life before death. It should remain the case so that the moral values of human beings may be in right direction. So that the feelings of humanity and morality can flourish in the world which can make this work a happy garden.
Afterlife Topography: The afterlife topography described in this essay consists of phases which lead to final stage of permanent peace for the soul of human being. First phase of afterlife starts with the moments before the death when a person realizes that it is his final time and he has few breaths before dying. That moment brings that person far from temporary world and he realized the value of the world and its happiness. After this stage, next stage is immediately after the death of the person where he faces new life and its aspects. The ways of living in that part of life are totally different from the life before death and one this is clearly visible that materialism is not there in afterlife. Third stage comes between the second and last stage and is little in duration than all the stages. During this stage, all people gather who entered the first stage together and based on their grades all of them are sent to permanent place where all of them live in peace. No one shows proud over each other because such instincts are nowhere in afterlife.
Phases and Function of afterlife: The afterlife described in this essay has four parts or phases which are moments before the death phase immediately after death, and last phase is permanent and immortal life phase while third phase comes between the second and last phase where all people entered into the second phase together would gather to head towards immortal life together. The function of first phase which is about moments before death is unique among all phases where the person would be able to analyze the world he is about to leave. During this analysis he recalls happy moments of his life and considers those moments most valuable and real moments. Some moments irritates him especially when he recalls some of his wrongdoings. It is common observation that some people advise when they are about to die. That piece of advice is therefore; very valuable because that advice is the learning of a person from the whole life he has just spent. Second phase just after the death is similar to real life but not exactly the same while person is able to recall his life in the world before death. During this phase, a person is able to come in dream of his friend or relative and can advise on certain issues. This phase consists of processes to purify the soul so that it can be able to go into the immortal life where no one can think of selfishness and other types of illness. However, this phase is reflection of one’s life before death and according to one’s deeds in the world he would undergo the process of purification. The person would be recalled about his wrongdoings and his pious inner feelings would lead him to think of the severity of those wrongdoings. In the world, many actions which he would do instantly without thinking would tease him in this phase in order to purify him. He would learn real essence of life and the purpose of humanity during this phase. Next phase of afterlife would consist of gathering, it would be a grand gathering in which all of the persons who entered the second phase in the same time would be called and assesses based on purity of their body, mind, and actions. The assessment of purity would be made so that the person can be allowed to enter into last and fourth phase of afterlife where only purified persons may enter. Those persons who would pass the assessment criteria would be sent to immortal and permanent phase where they would rest in peace while those who would not pass the criteria, would be sent back to second phase so that they can further purify their souls. This would be the moment when they would realize that how much they have done wrongdoings in the world. To spend time in second time again would be hard for them because they would not want to live there for longer time. Because the second phase is actually the phase of continuous learning. Those who pass the assessment of purification would be sent to last and fourth phase where they would enjoy immortal life and then they would know what is real universe. They would know the purpose of their creation and life in the world and all the moral and human values they would learn in the world. In this stage, they would find abundant resources of comfort, leisure, happiness, and love among themselves. Their love would be intrinsic and they would look after each other with utmost care and feelings of humanity. At this phase, they would permanently cut from the previous phases and life in the world before death because in this phase, even thinking of that world would be impossible as everything would be inferior in front of the luxuries in this stage.
Afterlife a reward, learning opportunity, or process: The afterlife which has been created in this essay is both a reward and a learning opportunity. The last phase of the afterlife discussed above is the example of reward and second phase is learning opportunity where the persons and their souls would learn how to purify themselves. Moreover, second phase is also the process to enter the immortal life, the last phase of the afterlife which would never last. These stages or phases let the souls of the persons learn the value of purity and they recall the pious people in the world who concentrate towards purity in their lives. They recall those pious people in different religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism those achieve purity in their life before death. This reality makes them believe that all types of discrimination and prejudice relate to that world and all of them are wrong.
Afterlife as the part of the universe: The afterlife described in this essay is not a new universe but it is actual and real part of this universe which is the reality. The world after death is larger than the world before death and both exist in this universe. This universe is already very large that there is no need to think of new universe, so both worlds and phases in the both of the worlds are part of this universe however, the afterlife is main and original part of the universe.
Conclusion:
It is concluded that the afterlife has been the reflection of the life in this mortal world where people face the consequences of their actions. The afterlife created above is also the reflection of this mortal life while it is made clear that afterlife is true life where no one discriminates and shows prejudice thus that is the real life which is close to the humanity. The phases of the afterlife reveal that even there in afterlife only capable and deserving persons would enter the immortal phase which would never end however, no one would be denied of that right of immortal life. This version of afterlife is unique because it does not discriminate the souls of the persons even the life after death but it suggests equal atmosphere for all. It is beyond the limitations and assumption of the life before death and it is free from this world in every aspect. So intelligent persons should spend life with humanity and moral values so that they can enter the immortal life right after their death otherwise, they have to go through long learning process in the second phase of afterlife.