Re: Descriptions of Pretas or Ghosts from Garuda Purana

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! The soul is forced to occupy a ghost body immediately after death due to the extreme attachment with the material body which is now dead. Due to this extreme attachment and untimely death, the conditioned soul which is enveloped by the subtle body of mind, inteliigence and false ego, is not even ready to go and suffer in hell for the misdeeds. Thus, it enters into a ghost body first. After sufficiently experiencing the suffering of the ghost body, the soul then enters the hellish planets to suffer further for one's misdeeds which were committed when the soul was embodied in a gross human body. Ghosts are not higher than human beings. It is a condition lower than even the condition in the hellish planets in some ways.

Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.

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