Where, Pray, After You Die? {155.}

Where, Pray, After You Die? {155.}
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Every human or other living being represents the effect of all one’s past impulses & deeds in all one’s earlier lifetimes.
You may believe you suddenly do something, but actually you have been preparing yourself for several lifetimes for doing it.
Besides, we are all essentially ignorant, imperfect and limited beings leading lives in an evil world.
Hence, one’s present karmas are extremely important.
Your present thoughts, desires, words & actions are preparatory to your future state of life, & to your ultimate spiritual end.
It is everyone’s individual responsibility to value, choose, decide, care, & actually make the proper efforts in striving to ensure one’s state of life &, far more importantly, one’s desserts & status in the afterlife.

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO BE AFTER YOU DIE?
This is the key question that ought to determine your entire living.
It is surprising -- actually unbelievable -- that people care so tremendously for their worldly gains that can at the most last a few months, years or decades.
Human lifespan itself is so severely limited, in the cosmic timeframe.
However, spiritual benefits acquired by securing a berth in the redemptive Radhasoami Ferry & performing good deeds last one till eternity.
It behoves the sensible to care for their eventual spiritual welfare & destiny at least as much as they do for the next meal that they are to eat, or about the house that they so keenly wish to purchase.

Haven’t we had enough of collective & continuing ignorance, wrong valuing and myopia?
What do you care more about: that petty & stupid trinket, or actually persevering to deserve that your soul could rejoice in ineffable bliss in an eternal paradise?
It is only humans, among the living beings, who might ponder over such choices, because they are the only ones who actually face these options.
Please don’t waste your priceless human birth!
Please don’t ignore my words as not containing truth, or as irrelevant for you!
Please don’t forego this opportunity that you now have of seeking to really ensure your eventual redemption.
None of the others, & nothing of the usual sort, matters.
Life is a fleeting illusory play, but God’s Grace will really work, if you take care to deserve it.
Just how truly, honestly and intensely do you really care for what happens to your soul in the afterlife?
That’s more important than absolutely anything else!
Yes, seek the truth, while you can, & it will, indeed, enable your freedom, transcendence and salvation.
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Note: This is drawn from & inspired by the scriptures, practices & teachings pertaining to the Radhasoami religion of Dayalbagh.

Karmas: Good, Bad & Effects. {47.}

Karmas: Good, Bad & Effects. {47.}
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"You unite me with Yourself, O True God.
Through perfect good karma, You are obtained."
"Those who act in ego do not go beyond karma.
It is only by Guru's Grace that one is rid of ego."
"Through the perfect karma of good deeds,
one meets the Perfect Guru, whose speech is perfect."
"According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds,
even though everyone wants to be so lucky."
"Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all:
gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment,
they are burnt, like moths in a flame."
"Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord.
O Nanak, they make the Guru their spiritual teacher.
In the fourth watch of the early morning hours,
a longing arises in their higher consciousness.
They are attuned to the river of life;
the True Name is in their minds and on their lips."
"Whatever pleases You is a pure action of karma."
"As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma."
"When good karma dawns, the wall of doubt is torn down."
"With good karmas or actions,
some come to serve the Perfect Guru."
"Born because of the karma of their past mistakes,
they make more mistakes, and fall into mistakes."
"Without the karma of good deeds,
they are only destroying themselves."

---- The Guru Granth Sahib.
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