Purification of Karma - Destiny After Death and During This Life "People are always remarking, how come if you perform good right actions you don’t get good right results. How come there are all these really bad guys who are having apparently a good life? Everything seems to happen good for them. How come? You’ve got all these virtuous people and they’re all suffering so terribly ". Adi Da Samraj: If you use the body circumstance as a means to purify the mind, the unconscious that’s outside the realm of the brain, cut off by the brain you see, then those mechanisms will not control destiny after death. Whereas if you use your lifetime simply as an opportunity to indulge in a bodily based existence, you will do nothing but add to the sum total of karma in the unconscious and all that becomes your destiny then. So you must get wisdom. You must understand. You must do sadhana and be purified of karma. People think that the brain is it. Mind is just brain. Maybe when you’re dead you’re dead you see. Well it’s not true. The brain however is a limiting mechanism. It keeps you from having certain kinds of experiences. It’s not really that the brain is here to evolve so that you can have all kinds of experiences. The brain is here to keep you from having experiences or to limit or define what kind off experiences you can have and most of what is potential is outside of the brain mind area, not accessible as a general rule sometimes. There are these openings and you have unusual experiences, sometimes positive. Sometimes negative. But for the most part you remain controlled by the brain mind. You have those thoughts and experiences that relate to your present physicality and so on. For the most part, this is what people experience and they think that therefore that’s it. That’s what life is supposed to be. They don’t understand what the purpose is of having a limit place in which you can have an experience. The purpose of it is to purify the karmic consciousness, the karmic mind that preceded the present birth. You must devote your life not to the fulfillment of the body personality but to the purification of karma through the devotion of the bodily personality. You do this so in death when you lose the vehicle that shuts off experience and all experience is opened up to you, what you are opened up to will be auspicious. Because mind has been purified, attention has been given to its source. The degree to which you have done all of this, in other words, the stage of life you represent in manifestation will determine the quality of experience after death. Whereas during life in the body, you see the body is a limit. People are always remarking, how come if you perform good right actions you don’t get good right results. How come there are all these really bad guys who are having apparently a good life? Everything seems to happen good for them. How come? You’ve got all these virtuous people and they’re all suffering so terribly. Well in the context of bodily existence results do not immediately follow necessarily. The place where you’re getting your results is outside the brain mind. You’re getting results that are purifying that unconscious or you’re getting the results of adding to it and complicating it. So in the context of the body a person can be performing actions that are building up karmic destiny but in the present context of the body, it having its own destiny and tendencies, apparently what people are calling good results, are taking place and some other person who is actually purifying the sum total of bondage karmically through right action is having a difficult life in many cases. The more you mature and practice, the more you come to appreciate what’s really going on, what kind of mechanism you are really associated with here. People generally, especially westerners, like the casual choice of bodily self-fulfillment. This is also a tendency of ego in general no matter what the place of origin east or west. But westerns have a certain omega like way of tending and I’ve observed in my work in the west people struggling intensely against the demand for self-discipline. And they’re always struggling. Should they discipline themselves? Or should they just go for the good life. They’re always thinking about this nonsense because you have so little experience. You have so little understanding of what is really taking place. You will not resort to wisdom. People do not resort to wisdom or to realizers so they just go with the flow so to speak. But you’re not going to experience a collective destiny after death. You’re going to experience a personal destiny and one that goes beyond individuality ultimately but in other words, you’re not going to realize after death what everybody thought life was about. You’re going to realize the sum total of your karmic tendencies, so you should use this lifetime of practice in my company to be purified of these tendencies. One could say that altogether sadhana basically is self-purification. Because it’s not the divine that must be found the things that you are deluding yourself with that must be released. The divine is the context of existence. But self-contraction has taken on all kinds of forms, the summary of which is awareness of the divine condition. Sadhana then is basically purification of these forms of self-contraction. Sadhana then is not about the good life, what people would commonly call the good life, the western idea of self-fulfillment. It’s not that at all. However, the person who does sadhana can and rightly should and in general maintain positive life signs, healthful signs, positive relational signs and so forth and all these are simply expressions of the dispositions of sadhana in fact. It’s not about pursuing self-fulfillment, the glorification of self, clinging to the qualities of life, relationships, experiences, limitations and so forth for their own sake. The daily qualities of life may be generally whole and positive by your intentions. But still you must do the sadhana of self-transcendence. And if the qualities of life at the moment are not all that positive, likewise, it’s the same sadhana. From the point of view of sadhana then, it doesn’t make any difference on any given day whether it’s positive or negative because you have to do the same thing in any case. And the import of this sadhana is not only relative to destiny after death, but it’s relative to this lifetime also. But its fruits to be valued are not merely those of physical design. Either the great virtues of sadhana can be seen in advancements in the stages of life so as one’s practice matures and becomes most profound, then the state of consciousness is transformed. The general life signs become more and more characteristic of renunciation and the quality of consciousness exhibits the characteristic of realization along the lines of one of the advanced or ultimate stages of life this progressively. In general then, the destiny after death corresponds to the realization while alive and that being the case, then it is also clear that except in the case of perfect enlightenment, after death the opportunity for further growth must be given. But all that takes place, all that is given in the context of a paradox and a mystery of unfathomable proportions and signs of time and space that are not comprehensible front the present bodily point of view. Fundamentally as I say, sadhana is a matter of self-purification. It’s about then the outshining of all the forms of limitations by the force of consciousness itself by magnifying the force of consciousness itself, the force of love bliss itself. This purifies. This releases. That virtue is what you are coming into contact with in satsang with me and as you mature you become more and more a responsible participant in that process of self-purification or ultimately outshining, recognition without shining. The divine reality is simply the absolute objectless expansiveness of mere being without a trace of limitation, self-radiant bliss absolute between this apparition and such realization, there is much much more than merely living and much much more than talking school attitudes, gestures. Real sadhana is necessary. Resort to grace. It’s necessary. Grace must work. This is necessary.

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"The perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is absolutely no difference between us"
Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133