Directives for the Spiritual Aspirant

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Dr. Nikhil asked: If the sins of undeserving devotee are postponed along with interest to the subsequent birth, the soul is said to be returning from the hell after exhausting the punishments before coming to the next birth. In such case, how to correlate these two points?]

Swami replied: The earth, hell and heaven come under the plane of materialism (Pravrutti) only. The punishment on the earth and the punishment in the hell differ just by the areas present in the same realm of Pravrutti. It is just the difference between a jail in India and a jail in Andaman Islands in the olden days. Therefore, the postponed sin along with the interest can be met with punishment in the hell or in the next birth. It is one and the same. The serious deeds good or bad will yield results in this birth itself (Atyutkataih Papa Punyaiah Ihaiva Phalamashnute...). The place and time have no significance. Only the quality and quantity of the nature (good or bad) of a deed and its subsequent fruit destined by the constitution of God are important.

As the postponement increases, the interest also increases. You will receive the principle along with the interest in any online branch of the divine bank existing on this earth or in the upper world. Actually, the deeds are inert actions and do not follow the soul. Only the essence of the deed, which is alive in the form of quality (guna or samskara), follows the soul, and from the color and intensity of the quality, results are decided by the divine computer, called Yama for bad deeds and Indra for good deeds. Kalabhairava is the overall in-charge of supervision in implementing the results (Karanam Guna Samgosya… Gita). Sattvam is white, Rajas is red and Tamas is black. Therefore, the internal intention (Samkalpa) of the mind, which is made of these three qualities, decides good and bad of a deed and not the inert subsequent action. The cycle of deeds and its administration is simplified based on the specific quality and its quantity. This is the simplified picture of the system of deeds, which is followed by the judge in the final enquiry. Of course, the total network of deeds with all the minute details also exists inside the system, which can be referred if necessary (Gahana Karmanogatih…).

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