The soul can experience two forms of reincarnation after leaving its body.

The first form of reincarnation involves going to Yamaraja, the one who judges sinful acts, and the second involves going to the higher planets of the galaxy, or to the spiritual world.

Yamaraja's emissaries, the Yamadutas, deal with people who, in order to support a family, become absorbed in activities aimed at sensual pleasures. At the moment of death, those who have relentlessly pursued their material desires are placed under the guardianship of the Yamadutas. The latter take the dying person and bring them to the planet where Yamaraja resides.

Human beings are, in reality, a trilogy. The spiritual soul, what each of us truly is, is contained within an ethereal body, and this, in turn, is contained within a physical body.

However, Yamaraja's agents recover the ethereal body of the criminal and bring it before Lord Yamaraja to be judged and punished according to a punishment he can bear. It is not within Yamaraja's agents' power to execute anyone. In any case, it is impossible to kill the soul, which is eternal in nature. The individual spiritual being must simply suffer the consequences of the sins committed in seeking to satisfy their senses.

Here are some examples of punishments.

Criminals who seek to indulge their desires and sensual pleasures, including indulging their taste buds by eating meat, fish, and eggs after killing innocent living beings and committing an abominable crime, are condemned to eat their own flesh, to be tortured by fire, or to be devoured by other beings who find themselves in the same condition.

Those who kill and eat the flesh of land and water animals will go to Maharaurava, a hellish planet designed for those who kill animals, such as the ranchers who drive their animals to the slaughterhouse, the slaughterhouse slaughterers who kill them, the sailors on board trawlers who kill them at sea, the managers of fish and aquaculture ponds, the fishermen, hunters, butchers, fishmongers, who sell their flesh, and the carnivorous humans who consume it.

Men and women who have based their existence on the pursuit of illicit carnal desires outside of marriage are placed in all sorts of horrific conditions on the infernal planets Tamisra, Andha-tamisra, and Raurava.

Material existence is based on sexual life. Indeed, all materialists, forced into harsh tribulations during their struggle for existence, base their lives on carnal pleasure. This is why spiritual civilization only permits sexual activity in a restricted manner. It is intended only for married couples, and solely for the purpose of procreation. Those who, for the sole purpose of satisfying their senses, resort to carnal union illegally and illicitly must expect, both men and women, to suffer severe punishment, whether in this life or after death.