what,s in your spoon...

Today my Mom during a conversation said ".....now he's done such a thing, surely if this person goes on doing such things he is bound to go to HELL" I was drowned into thoughts. I don't know what happened to me with the mention of this word Hell... It was not for the first time that I heard this word. But this time it seemed too close to reality... Heaven and Hell... Heaven and Hell.. I was thinking for some time few minutes back... Finally I have arrived at a conclusion....{ Before you read further I want to give you a warning that the views and Ideas expressed in the further paragraphs are totally imaginary, do not take these as confirmations ;-) } I have read in the Great Book 'Bhagwad Gita' that a person takes rebirth till the time his or her 'Karma's ' (Actions or fruits of actions) are left unfulfilled.. So basically when a person finishes with his or her duties on this Earth, the process of rebirth of the soul stops.. it finally rests in an unknown.. mysterious peace totally united with the creator of this Universe "The Parmatma" or God... To give you an example I shall tell you the example which has happened in front of my eyes, not of rebirth but the person getting fruits of his action... There was a person I knew quite well.. He loved to trouble other people.. The most favourite thing that this person used to love to do is to trouble the people in the building by leaving no water for them..Morning morning he used to open the taps in the house (all of them) to empty the watertank of the building.. He used to fill up water in the loft tank of theirs for their own household need... The entire tank of the building used to get empty and there used to be a Havoc due to water shortage.. The person used to feel a devilish joy when the people used to cry for water.. No one really knew the reason of this water shortage.. We tried a lot to make this person understand not to do such a thing, but this person never listened. When this person was around 50 yrs old, there was sudden kidney failure of his for no reason and he was banned from drinking water above a certain limit. He died with too much of pain and when death was near he somehow felt that this pain was due to the trouble he gave to the people... in relation to water.. So he got the fruit of his actions in that birth itself. If the fruits of his actions would not have been fulfilled in that birth he would have had to take birth anew and in that birth get the fruits of his actions.. So what I feel is this cycle of rebirth (Coming to this world again and again) signifies something.. It signifies that what we call as hell, where people are tortured for their sins, for their wrong doings, they are given punishments for their wrong doings... is nothing but this earth..Otherwise we would never see infants dying, small innocent children who have not even fully seen this world getting cancer, people being handicapped by birth, so many people are there who keep doing good but in return keep getting bad, a person whom everyone adore and like getting killed in an accident or becoming handicapped in it, people losing their loved ones at a young age, people who have lots of money for some time but become really poor, people who don't get financial success, etc etc, there are so many more examples........... What have they done to be punished by all this, don't you think there is some rebirth associated, some prior unfullfilled punishments being got by them?? As there is a Bad side of this world there is the Good one also... Some people leave their good activities incomplete and die.. to reach heaven a person I feel needs to have the specific amount of good activities in his or her account (Just like you need a specified fare to travel to a particular place!!) so they are born again in this world, to collect the stock of good deeds. Now you may feel if I am calling this world HELL then how are good people to be born here, then in that case I think the life of good people, the rebirths are for their trial, their test of patience, their life is to be for doing good to others without expecting good, a person should not stop doing good because someone has not appreciated that... leave things to God... do your good karma and GET THE TICKET TO HEAVEN!!! If you will notice or go through the life stories of great saints you will notice that they have given a lot to the world without expectation and that their whole life was a trial, people did not realise their importance when they were alive but built their temples and statues and worshipped them after they died... so that was the unfulfilled karma of these Saints that they had to go through their test and trial before they would reach heaven... The second part of the story is Heaven When a person dies, in the birth where he fulfills all his "Karma's" he goes to the place where there is eternal peace, a peace undiscriptive, that place is nothing but HEAVEN... That is what according to me is HEAVEN AND HELL... of Heaven I don't know I am still in HELL undergoing trials and punishments!!! ;-) Please tell me your views about all this..... Why I call this earth Hell..