If we die in a positive frame of mind, we can improve our next birth, despite our negative karma. And if we are upset and distressed, it may have a detrimental effect, even though we may have used our lives well. This means that the last thought and emotion that we have before we die has an extremely powerful determining effect on our immediate future. Just as the mind of a mad person is usually entirely occupied by one obsession, which returns again and again, so at the moment of death our minds are totally vulnerable and exposed to whatever thoughts then preoccupy us. That last thought or emotion we have can be magnified out of all proportion and flood our whole perception.
Q: what if karma is an illusion?
It would be ironic if the greatest illusion of them all if the world of karma propagated in the east, is only a construct void of the presence of meditation. If one is truly present, all karma dissolves. Meditation is only another word for love. If love is present: there is no past, there is no future, there is only now. Love dissolves all tension, and all tenses of time.
Redemption is a way of describing us going back and restoring deeds of the past and their consequence. But what if redemption is an illusion: that If love present in this moment, no redemption is needed because no regret, mistake, or failure is real. Only love is real. And when love is present, all concepts and constructs of time and past action, disappear. Meaning we perpetuate karma, or the weight of its perceived presence, merely by leaving the presence of love in the present moment. No karma exists in the present.
C: ok. But what about a man being convicted of his actions from the past with a criminal sentence? Is the Loss of his freedom not evidence that karma exists in the consequence of his actions with the sentence/punishment? If a man is sentenced to a lifetime in prison, whether they are guilty or not, it’s only experienced as prison sentence if the man lives every moment as if the conviction were a burden and punishment. if the man is grateful for his situation, or inspired by the situation is a chance to share his gift or experience love more deeply, being in a prison cell Is not a burden. Even if the man, committed no crime. The only crime, that perpetuated more crime, is when man leaves the present. In the present moment, no crime exists. Crime is an illusion, that is only conceptually really in relation to the mirages of ‘past’ and ‘future’.
Example: I receive a $3000 bill from the government from 2 years ago wanting me to pay for hotel quarantine. I never consented to be put in a hotel. In the presence of my heart, in this moment, on this day, the bill is not a burden to me. Because i have no intention, no fear of threats to pay it and only joy that if I am asked to pay in in the future in a more aggrandising way (ie. court notice), that I loving look forward to going The court house as a sovereign being who loves himself and does not wish harm on those who’ve demanded I pay, to lovingly represent myaelf in a court of law as a free man. I am a free man not because I am not locked up or that walk Streets without chains, I’m a free man because the circumstance in front of me is a joy. Presence makes me a free man. Non-presence makes me a prisoner to karma, a victim to Samsara and a pawn to the insanity of noise, distraction and outer world demands. You can be prisoner as man walking chainkess down the street, or a free man in a prison cell. Presence determines your freedom.
Controversial: The holocaust is only trauma for the Jew who saw the Nazi regime as a burden, and not an oppurtunity or blessing. The presence of love turns any holocaust, a great nightmare of suffering, into a dissolved state free of the torture imposed by own frame of reality. For some Jews, as for some Germans, the war was the greatest experience of love and transcendence their life will ever know. Some People are still being tortured 80 years later. The Torture of karma is a present moment phenomenon. Suffering is optional. As for Covid, the Great Depression, the financial crisis. Those who suffer, are always stuck in the past or frozen in a future they’ve pre-determined as fixed.
If the man is able to love the moment, irrespective of jail cell, then a man can dissolve a lifetime sentence and its oad of negative karma, by experiencing true and unwavering love in this moment for the gift of what’s in front of him. Inroncislly, the prison sentence is not the conviction, the invasion, the war in the world: the prison sentence is assuming that a negative karma or negative event is out to haunt you for the next 50 years of your life. By loving the circumstance in front of all, positive or negative, all karma dissolves. Burdens become blessings. Blocks become doorways through. A negative or positive skew no longer exists. Karma is only real because we say it is. We say karma is real because we are constantly trying to avoid the negatives, and perpetuate the positives, taking all kinds of insane actions to justify or exit the samasara loop ever perceived we are in. Love dissolves helps the illusion, love is there to bring you home.
Suffering has to be freshly baked every day. In other words, your karma cannot turn into suffering without your cooperation. Once you are aware, that is the end of your suffering. So the source of your misery is not your past actions. The source of your misery is how you’re processing the imprint of the past now. You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden.-Sadhguru