Q86. When is the Day of Judgment?

The Day of Judgment is immediately at death. Why should God keep the dead waiting? Some people have been dead for millions of years, why should God keep them waiting for so long? God is very efficient, He doesn’t keep the dead waiting. At death, we are instantly judged according to the actions we have taken in life (karma). It’s due to man ideologies that people falsely believe that the Day of Judgement is someday in the future. At death, the ‘he’ (the soul) is judged based on the actions taken in his life (karma) and then ‘he passes away’ to another body. Death simply means he (the soul) has passed away to another body. Some people falsely believe that the dead body will rise again someday in the future (resurrection). Anyone with some basic science knowledge will understand that the body is dead matter and within a few months of death, the body will decay and disintegrate and eventually turn to dust. From dust the body is made and to dust the body will return. The dead body will never rise again, because nothing will be left due to decay. If God can give us this body, then He can certainly also give us another body. He does not need to make the dead matter (the body) useable again. The Laws of science and the ways of God are completely compatible based on the Vedic teachings. The fundamental Laws of Physics is that what has a beginning will have an end. What is made of matter will eventually be destroyed due to decay, caused by time. The body has a beginning and it’s made of matter, thus based on scientific logic, the body will be destroyed. Those bodies which are buried will never rise again, but the souls who once occupied those bodies are alive and well today and will always be alive, but in different bodies.