Hell, Paradise,
and Karma
By the way, did you notice the difference between creation of
good or bad karma, on one hand, and mechanisms of determination of the
“afterlife” abode?
In this respect one should understand that certain ethically
significant actions, words, and thoughts form the corresponding type of karma.
By means of forming our destinies in accordance with this rule God seeks to
disaccustom us to the evil and to make us cling to the good.
But whether we prepare ourselves to live in hell, paradise, or
Divine eons after the death of our bodies — this depends on the levels of
subtlety-coarseness scale (of states of consciousness) to which we accustomed
ourselves during our lives in the physical bodies on Earth.
Our being associated with some particular religion or even our
faith in the existence of God — do not (directly) matter in this case.
I had numerous chances to make sure the latter is true by
observing the “post-death” state of people whom I knew very well.
One of them was a famous scientist, who was a determined and
staunch atheist. But he dedicated his life to doing Good, heroically and
self-sacrificially helping people with that highest knowledge and methods that
he possessed. His predisposition for atheism was determined by the fact that he
lived in Russia during a cruel era of “militant atheism” bearing a gruesome
“Jew” stigma and that of all religious concepts he was familiar only with the
Orthodox one, which could not possibly satisfy him as an intellectually
highly-developed person.
He was leaving his body being a decrepit old man, suffering
because of this, realizing with a deep sorrow that his “end” was coming. And one
can only imagine how astounded he got later on discovering that there was no
“end”!
Shortly before his leaving he called me on the phone with a
clear intention to say “good-bye”. (We used to work together for a long time).
Summing up his life he was saying very sincerely:
— I have lived an honest life, Vladimir! I have also given all
of myself so that people would live better!
Then I made another attempt to steer the conversation into
topics related to God and the immortality of the soul. But he was reluctant to
talk about it, he was totally occupied with personal results of his life. The
dialog did not happen…
Now he often visits me together with his wife — a kindest
beautiful woman who left this world shortly before him. They are in an excellent
state and their abode is paradise. They would stay watching me doing something,
and then exchange opinions between each other. Sometimes, addressing me, he
says:
— Right, Vladimir! Right!
Having to live in a fascist Russia both of them suffered much.
And, of course, they could not accept that degenerated “Christianity” which had
contrived to officially damn all Jews and had treated them in a more or less
hostile manner ever since. They endured everything humbly, never slipping into
bitterness and exasperation. They just silently wondered at the moral
primitivism that was surrounding them. And they were right. Now they live in
paradise.
But one of his closest colleagues, also a scientist and a Jew by
the nationality of his physical body, who did very much during the last years of
his earthly life to bring people closer to the understanding of the soul’s
immortality and who wrote many works on parapsychology and psychic
self-regulation, — he had lived in an endless bustle. He made the self-assertion
with other people his habit, developed super-mendacity (he could become tangled
in lies even in the course of one conversation, laying himself bare), insisted
that “man is an autonomous, closed system”, did not think about God and conform
his life to His Existence, developed his lower self to such an extent that it
was full of various vices “sticking out”, and ended his earthly life of a brain
disease in the United States where he had hoped to find peace, having had
escaped from the Russian hell (he collapsed and died immediately upon coming off
the ladder of the airplane onto the American land). Now that he left his body he
can be seen as a “warped”, dark being, still devoid of peace. Hell is continuing
for him… (I am saying this with a great sorrow: this man helped many people on
Earth to start seeking for the true Freedom. But it turned out that he did not
seek it himself).
Another couple of examples — two singers of past several decades
who were well-known in Russia and who contributed significantly to the
liberation of the country from the tyranny of the Communist Party and KGB.
Igor Talkov, who used to sing quite ordinary songs about earthly
love, upon maturing started to sing in a rich, bold, and beautiful manner about
political freedom, about God. And soon he died as a hero for the other people’s
freedom. He spend last years of his earthly life in a triumphant and confident
union with God, being strongly assured in the continuity of life — with or
without a body… And his current status in his new life without a body is quite
high. He is still beautiful!
But another Russian bard, a Talkov’s contemporary, who had
written and sung a lot more wonderful, glorious, and wise songs, than Talkov
had, and who also died in the struggle with Russian evil, who struggled but
never found peace, harmony, and tranquil and tender love — he is still in this
“psyched out”, “ruffled” state. He is still living in this “I-am-lacking-air!”
kind of emotion. And with the desire to rush on horses “along the brink of the
precipice”… But where he is now — this is not needed; it is —
inappropriate there... And hence — his unquenchable anguish…
What a pity! But no one can help him now: after death a person
remains in the same state to which he accustomed himself during his life in the
body and in which death caught him.
And let us, my dear readers, keep it in mind: even performing
great sacrificial feats in a state of exasperation, without inner Peace and
Love, but with a feeling of dissatisfaction of our lower selves we may improve
our karmas, but we do not get closer to God. As we do not realize the purpose of
our lives and fulfill the Plan of the Creator in full.
God does approve of heroism and feats. But these feats should
not be a sort of personal rebellion (although righteous), but rather conform to
the profound philosophical understanding of the Plan of our Creator regarding
all of us who live in bodies on Earth.
How many people could have benefited if they had timely received
this knowledge! What a huge number of brilliant souls could have avoided making
tragic mistakes that had such a devastating impact on their destinies!
But, every one of us can choose to help make tragedies like this
less frequent, to help other people, so that they could stop making grave
mistakes because of their lack of the true religious knowledge.
* * *
... I have never been seriously or for a long time interested in
spiritism. I was drawn towards the cognition of the Creator. However, I have had
numerous contacts with non-embodied people and animals.
In particular, many Russian physicians who graduated from Saint
Petersburg Pediatric Institute certainly remember my mother — Irina Grigorievna
Antonova: she had a medical education and taught physiology for several decades.
Those who knew her during her life on Earth would be pleased to know that now
she continues to fulfill doctor’s duties, wearing a white doctor’s smoke and a
phonendoscope around her neck. The last time I saw her she helped a woman who
was being reanimated. Irina Grigorievna comforted the woman when she found
herself “on the other side”, in the world of the non-embodied consciousness, and
explained to her that she was alive, only in a different way…
That woman got well after that and now continues to live in her
physical body.
… My mother was prepared by me to her own transition. When she
left her body — peacefully and painlessly — she made sure that I did not need
her help and went to look for her husband, who left his body several years ago
(I wrote about his life and circumstances in which he left in the book [4]).
Later she returned, upset, complaining that she had been unable to find him
anywhere…
But one day — someone helped her, apparently — she did find him!
It turned out that he had just incarnated again. Used to helping people during
her embodied life, she attempted to start caring about him. But… later she came
back to me in grief:
— He is not interesting to me!
He was only two months old at that time…
— He does not understand anything yet!.. — she complained.
These were her first steps in getting used to the non-material
existence.
Later, as we already know, there appeared more serious
responsibilities for her.
… I have already mentioned that not only people, but also
animals can live in the “other world”, and one can really communicate with them:
there, communication occurs on the thought level, without using words. Paradise
and hell also exist for them. As in case of people, their status can be easily
determined using clairvoyance according to the level of refinement of the
consciousnesses: light ones are inhabitants of paradise, while gray and black
ones (in terms of the color of the soul) are those who live in hell.
Hellish animals very frequently can be found in the bodies of
incarnate people as demons, which cause certain kinds of diseases. One of the
reasons for this type of their behavior consists, apparently, in their feeling
of resentment, because those people caused them pain or killed their bodies. In
other words this represents the mechanism of manifestation of the negative karma
for people who eat bodies of killed animals.
But “paradisiacal” animals, who are free of malignancy,
revengefulness, but on the contrary — who used to be full of love during their
lives in the bodies, continue to live there in joy and happiness.
I had a chance to communicate with the dogs, who used to be my
friends and assistants in my scientific research. I initiated the first contact
with them, who were killed by other scientists after my studies had been
completed, when I repented deeply of my forced betrayal of them. But they… —
were just jumping around joyfully and licking my hands and face.
— We will be protecting you! — this was their sincere desire,
which could be easily perceived without words: being transferred directly from
one consciousness to another.
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