The Afterlife
Visions of the realm or state that awaits the soul after death.
John 14:2-3
“My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me.”
Heaven as divine dwelling
Quran 56:10-40
“Those foremost will be foremost. These will be those brought near to Allah in gardens of bliss. A crowd of the former peoples and a few of the later peoples, on thrones woven with gold and gems.”
Paradise (Jannah) description
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person sheds worn-out garments and wears new ones, so also the individual soul casts off worn-out bodies and enters new ones.”
Continuous cycle of rebirth (samsara)
Dhammapada 21
“Vigilance is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The vigilant do not die; the heedless are as if dead already.”
Nirvana through mindful practice