The Religions of India c19.119

c19.119

On the other hand, Buddha teaches, if one may trust tradition, that a good man may go to heaven. ‘On the dissolution of the body after death the well-doer is re-born in some happy state in heaven’ (*Mahāparinibbāna*, i. 24).² This, like hell, is a temporary state, of course, before re-birth begins again on earth. In fact, Buddhist and Brahmanic pantheists agree in their attitude toward the respective questions of hell, heaven, and *karma*. It is only the emancipated Arhat that goes to Nirvāna.³