What happens to a soul when he dies? Is there a "heaven" or a "hell" for real? Find out...
My body shook convulsively. An immense wave of helplessness overwhelmed me. I couldn’t breathe. And at the last moment I didn’t want to breathe. My body relaxed, as if relieved at my decision to stop the painful act of breathing. The pain stopped. The shaking stopped. Everything came to a stop at one moment of perfect stillness.
I wondered if I was dead now. Puzzled, I looked around and saw that I was somewhere behind the ceiling fan. So I looked down to see my body surrounded by my wife, my son, daughter-in-law, and my doctor. I was watching everything going on below, transfixed.
The doctor felt for the pulse and the heartbeat of my body. After his confirmation of my death, my wife began to weep loudly and my daughter-in-law ran to comfort her with some more tears. My son just stood there looking stunned.
My bewilderment at every person’s reaction was instant. During my lifetime, at any given point of time, I could not have predicted this. Why does love always become more important when we don’t have it? My family was always there for me when I needed them. Now I understood. But it was too late. The decision had been made. I couldn’t do a damn thing about it now. And as these various emotions tried to catch up with me I tried to distance myself from them.
Doing what came naturally to me, I started to run away from these emotional entanglements. I knew what happens when you get involved. You love someone too much and when that person gets hurt, you too get hurt, watching them. So I ran away. I couldn’t watch this….my family crying for me. Sad for me. Sorry for all the wrongs they felt that they had done to me. I couldn’t bear it. I had to run away.
I turned around, and began to soar. My curiosity got the better of me. When I was alive, I used to wonder where everyone went when they died. Was there Heaven or Hell like all the stories that we used to read? Well, now I was going to find out. I couldn’t wait.
I was moving upwards rapidly. Everything around me was receding. By and by, I found myself going through this long, dark tunnel. I tried to see what was at the end of this tunnel. I saw a small white spot. It could be anything. But my curiosity spurred me on.
As I moved closer, and faster, I realized that there actually was light at the end of the tunnel. I felt an almost childlike exhilaration. The light was getting brighter and brighter. I almost couldn’t see due to the intensity of the brightness. In a flash, I sensed that I was going to go in it!! I thought to myself – this could be heaven or this could be hell!!
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