All religions consider God as supreme consciousness, superior energy source, the creator of all the universe and beyond, spread everywhere in the cosmos, even present in all life as a part of the whole cosmocasm. Hindus call that Brahmn or the Prana shakti the God which is present everywhere. Jainism consider it the supreme energy spark source, the Jyoti-r-punja, the God. Christians interpret it as the light from the heaven, the God. 

When a human dies, Jainism states the soul experiences immediate judgment, whether to take a new life form of human or animal or plant life or the first form the inert form of say the earth 🌍/ fire🔥/ water 💧/ air / or vacuum. From these inert stages the step of human comes after millions of years. When one entering the final state of godliness executes a small sin of say ahimsha (=violence) that life is again put to rebirth of say a poor life of a farmer, thus making the cycle of rebirth complete. If that life performs a grievous sin it may be put into the material matter of earth, from which the life of animal to human takes millions of years, likewise continues the cycle of birth. Jainism says life circulates in 84 lakhs species or "yonies" till it takes the final form of God, from where it is never reborn. These 84 lakh species are:- the 5 inert matters, all the plant life, all the life in water, all the amphibians and animals and the final human form. Total number of lives on earth remains constant, that is total number of death and total number of births are always same as per Jainism. 

But as per Hinduism, the theory is a little liberal and different. All lives are the part of the whole consciousness the supreme prana the creative energy. After death, humans go for the judgement to the lord Chitragupta. He opens his file and narrates the result of the particular life, how many virtues does he collect, how many sins does he incur and so on. Then his fate is decided, whether he should be born as an animal or he will get a human form, depending upon his overall good virtues. If he has to get a punishment that also is executed. He experiences the life of hell and is again purified. Than comes his new birth. If the soul is already over purified and has attained a yogic state, with the consent of the particular soul it is never given the rebirth, it actually attains liberation and stays in the heaven, with all the other Gods and Goddess, which is the ultimate state of a soul. Now here a concept need be understood that in Hinduism the Brahma or the prana of which the soul is also a part is the final state , and can neither be created nor be destroyed. But the number of lives existing and the number of deaths occurring, may not be the same. That is; in a particular point of time there may be a over crowding of lives on earth, similarly if a very powerful nuclear bomb 💥 explodes it may wipe out many lives of the earth's surface, then the number of living or deaths does not always equals. But whatever soul dies it joins the Brahma and likewise it's judgement continues, but, life may not immediately take birth, because birth of a life in a particular species is also a positive virtuous process, with all points of growth and development such a birth takes place. It is never to be astonished that the total number of lives and deaths doesn't equal because the concept of prana the Brahma is so immense that it can accommodate any number of lives coming and can also emerge as many lives needed for a happy and peaceful worldly life. 

I will continue with the philosophies of Jain and Hindu religions in my next, till then please go through and support me with advices as you all please.

Subir Kumar Ghosh.