The Hindu Theory of Hell
Introduction A number of religious communities all over the world today have conceptualised ideas like the conformation of the cosmos, planetary positions, astronomical significance, and worlds existing within our own, by means of their beliefs, scriptural sources, and mythologies, and Karmic influx, one’s actions, good and bad deeds, destiny, and the sequence of one’s life are often believed to be attune with these cosmological reflections. Within the existence of these notions, comes one which has functioned as the balance scale of Karma, and added to the connotations of death and the afterlife: Heaven and Hell. Mythologies have their own vision of Heaven and Hell, the former denoting purity, goodness, and liberation, with the latter representing punishment, evil, and torment and how one is atoned for their sins or remunerated for their virtues in each, respectively. For example, according to the Christian culture, Heaven and Hell are consequents of the kind of life one liv...