I received the following question:
“I’m wondering what happens after life. I see the paradox of just living in a mystery, but I do believe there is some sort of experience after death. I’m wondering if I’ll be able to have fun and spread love after I’m dead. I know consciousness is eternal, but what kind of part do I play in this mix of energy and frequencies?”
Ultimately, every drop of rain gravitates back to the ocean. Like that, eventually, every soul returns to the Oneness, out of which it emerged. That is the highest heaven. However, the journey is long and winding.
Every mind, every consciousness, has a particular tone… a state, a quality. One’s thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and beliefs are expressions of that tone, just as the color of one’s glasses determines the color tone of everything one views.
When the body drops away, the awareness is left in a sort of dream world determined by that tone. However, that tone has a continuum of levels, from superficial emotions to deeper levels of one’s being, to a profoundly deep connection with the Divine Essence that underlies all of creation. The possibilities of what happens after the body drops away are as endless as the spectrum of human psychological states.
Those who have been transcending regularly through deep meditation sail past the mountains of Karma and rest at a very high level of heaven. Others may find a world that correlates with the negativity that has colored their lives. As one lives in that world, the identity with it unravels over time until the individual is freed of it. As ye sew, so shall ye reap. The more deeply consumed by the negative tone, the more time is required to unravel its grip.
However, we must not be too simplistic in this. You see, often it is the ‘good’ (so to speak) people who judge their negativity most harshly, while the ‘bad’ live with righteous indignation. However, deep inside, we all know better. So, who and what we are deeper inside (where we know better) is what determines what we create after the body drops away. In that sense, we become our own self-honest judge and jury. If the negativity does not reach too deeply into the psyche, then the hellish nightmare that correlates with it lasts just a short time and is just brushed away like cobwebs. If the negative behavior is judged as a serious transgression, the nightmare lasts proportionally longer. We all have our value systems, our judgement systems, but deeper inside we all know better than we may be willing or able to see, to admit. Yet, it is that deeper inner knowing, the inner judge, thatprescribes what happens after the body drops away. All we can do in the meantime is our best.
To live better, look deeper. Life goes on after the body drops away. Meditate regularly and do your best. Know that you will stumble, but fear not. You are not judged by your stumblings. It is the deeper theme, the driving force underlying the path you have chosen, that really matters. Ultimately, we all reach the highest heaven. How long that takes, what you endure in the meantime, is up to you. Meditation is your most powerful tool to move forward wisely. The winds of Karma may blow harshly in your face at the time, but just move forward, forward, always forward. In spite of our many stumblings, we should still strive to live life in a manner where we can put our head on our pillow at night and say, “I did my best”.
The part you play in the greater scheme of things depends upon your steadfast commitment to the journey home to your inner wisdom, what some call your inner Divinity or the place within where you are one with God. Whatever you choose to call it… well, a rose is still a rose.
The more you move forward, the greater your part in the well-being of all you touch. Your touch reaches further and further as you grow and grow, until ultimately, you become like the Sun, whose nurturing light touches us all.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
Amazing! What an eloquent explanation of one of life’s biggest mysteries.
Oh I love this. Thank you!
This blog is a gem of gems!
Thank you.
This blog had many helpful reminders for our daily journey!
I’m sure I will be sharing this blog as many of my friends and clients are supporting elders through the process of dying. It seems to me this is the start of another book on Dying and Transitions.
Hi Charlotte,
Your comment interests me. Likely a book would be in order. However, I have a tendency to give the essential principles in my teachings and then encourage people to fill in the blanks (I.e. connect the dots) for themselves. However, to be completely honest, through the years I have been surprised to see how so few people do connect the dots and how so many fewer are able to live what they have learned! So your suggestion is an excellent one and likely applies to many of my teachings. So much to do, so little time. 🙂 I appreciate your insight and suggestion and am taking it to heart. We will see what unfolds… what the future holds…
Sometimes I stop right in my tracks …. put myself on hold, so to speak, so as to take time to mull over what you are teaching me, REACHING me ….in this blog. I am consumed by it Day AND night .
It is remarkable how useful it is even on a moment to moment basis! And, as a result. I feel more alert in discerning the
« Conditioned » me from the place where I know better.! (What an exquisite concept …. the place where I know better….
Even though I have read this blog over and over again, I know each time i do I will discover more.
I am grateful beyond measure. Thank you.
What a powerful explanation. Thank you.
I have been waiting for years to hear this. My journey to search for the answer to this started after my tenth grade and have tapped many vedic literatures, after which I almost came to a similar conclusion.
But you have explained what I was feeling from inside in such crisp words, that there is no measure to expalin my feelings and my respect for you in words.
Your reach to inner consciousness is so high …and that is the reason why you could put this in the most insightful and simple words.
Thanks so much and my regards.
What a beautiful way to believe in death… for most people. Eloquently written and I believe you are a very enlightened person. I am a relatively new “member” of your blog and throughly enjoy reading your articles and thoughts, but as I’m reading what you wrote here, there are several questions that I’m hoping you can help me with.
What about children & adults who have been abused and have years of negative thoughts most of the time(depending on the length and level of abuse)? Will they have to endure “hell” until those negative feelings & emotions can be eliminated?
Also, I’m wondering how you can possibly know what happens once we leave this body? It’s extremely interesting, but could you please explain as I would really like to believe your theory on what happens once we leave our bodies, but how did you come to this conclusion?
I am the type of person who is almost always positive, but when I read & hear so many people explain their deep thoughts on what happens after we die, I sometimes need a little more explaining. I wonder if you could enlighten me on where this all comes from?
(Speculation, faith, experience, research, dreams, etc.)
Peace!
Pegi,
All life experiences leave an impression on the mind. We each, as individuals, work them out however we do… very individual. In the case of abuse, that too must be worked out, worked through. God’s Will comes in two forms: 1) Karma… simply cause and effect. Whatever Karma there is, there will be the effect… abuse is a form of Karma… and 2) the Transcendent, i.e. Freedom or Divine Intervention. We can dissolve Karma by transcending. A transcending meditation is the most powerful tool for that… I recommend the Surya Ram Meditation I offer at no charge (at mountsoma.org).
How do I come to know this? As one meditates, the cobwebs clear and in time, one sees what has always been right there to see. It is not faith, or speculation, or research, dreams, etc. It is simple perception. How do you know the sun is there? Well… through simply seeing it.