text: Wow people are really jerks about religions they don't agree with. I believe for a hindu, heaven is not so much a state of mind as it is the melding of your self/spirit/soul with the "Ultimate Reality" aka God/heaven/eternity whatever you want to call it. There is no designated time or place for this ultimate reality, it just is, much like with the Christian idea of heaven or hell, there really is no place for it, we assume heaven is up, hell is down, but there is no way for us to see it. As for Hindu "hell", being reincarnated at all can be considered hell. If you do especially badly in life, you can get reincarnated down a few rungs.