The interval between death and rebirth varies from person to person. It may be two years
or it may be two hundred years, or more. There is no hard and fast rule. If the attachment to the
world is very intense, a Jiva may be born again immediately after death. There is a girt in Dehra
Dun who has memory of her past life. She took her present birth four years after she died in her
previous life. Those who have done a lot of virtuous actions remain in heaven for a long time,
for two hundred or three hundred years, before the are reborn on earth.
A wicked man will go to another region. You may call it hell. Or it may be a place
where he may not get the objects of enjoyment that he wants. A man addicted to drinking may
not get liquor there. It may be a place like a jail where one has to break the stones and do such
other hard work. But if one has done virtuous deeds, if one is a philanthropist, who has dug
public wells, built charitable hospitals, etc., he will go to heaven where he will enjoy for a long
time.From "May I answer that" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963). More Informations on Swami Sivananda: on the Website of Divine Life Society, Photographs of Swami Sivananda, German Pages on Swami Sivananda

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