Heaven and hell

Heaven and hell... a resounding topic to write about post a emotional bankruptcy. Has been long since i posted anything. Ancient times till date, people have always believed and worshipped the practice of feeding and praying the dead. Its believed if the dead are not fed during different moon phases, the family would be cursed and the generation following would be born corrupt. Wow! That’s some means of instilling fear to make some living for the priests. Doesn't it sound similar to what our naxalites do? 

Another system of belief that has been sustained from 5000 years is the belief of the soul ejecting out of the human body and availing a gate pass into hell or heaven. Here, its not just the soul's deed that is gonna decide which pass it should be benefited with but the sponsors who are put on the ground do. Their duty is to follow the instructions laid out from a priest. If the last rites and every death anniversary are performed righteously under the supervision of priest, the passage of our passed away soul to heaven will be granted. Looks like a visa process...

Do we need to wait for our soul to depart to visit the hell or heaven? Artists can portray any concept to a layman and they have done so. Hell being in the core of the earth and heaven in the sky. When Russians launched a moon mission, the astronaut radioed back to earth that he could not spot any heaven. So where is hell? Or heaven if any one can guess...

Ironically heaven as well as hell is right here right now. Each one of us goes through the hell and heaven in a 24 hours day. When we are all elated we feel light and find ourselves on cloud 9. That’s heaven. When things are going awry, we feel sunk and battered. That’s hell my friend...