(October 18, 2014 at 12:08 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Not exactly, in Hinduism not only do the hindus get to be part of the grand soul, but everyone and everything. Also failure doesn't equate to no grand merger for eternity, everything is supposed to return to it either way when the world ends at the end of time.
Perhaps of Hinduism it is more appopriate to say the consequence lies in the next life rather than the afterlife. As I understand it, one does not progress up in caste in the next life without first excelling or some such thing within the caste they currently find themselves.
