Powerful Cognition

Whatever samskaras or desires we bring, we bring enough energy to live them out and enough power of energy them also.

adhibhūtaṃ kṣaro bhāvaḥ puruṣaś cādhidaivatam adhiyajño'ham evātra dehe dehabhṛtāṃ vara

Physical nature is known to be endlessly changing. The universe is the cosmic form of the supreme Lord, and I am that Lord represented as the super soul, dwelling in the heart of every being that dwells in a body.

Everything, whether living or non-living, is an embodiment of the Supreme Soul.

antakāle ca māmeva smaranmuktvā kalevaram yaḥ prayāti sa madbhāvaṃ yāti nā'styatra saṃśayaḥ

Whoever, at the time of death, quits his body, remembering Me alone, attains My nature immediately. Of this there is no doubt.

Whatever you consider the highest ideal of your whole life, only that comes to your mind when you leave the body.

yaṃ yaṃ vāpi smaranbhāvaṃ tyajatyante kalevaram taṃ taṃ evaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ

Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, it is that state one will attain without fail.

Whatever you consider the highest ideal of your whole life, only that comes to your mind when you leave the body.

Introduction Before going into what happens at the time of death, let us understand how we assume the body, how we live through it and how we leave it.

Please understand that we create our whole body out of our fear, greed, guilt and our engraved memories, called the root thought patterns (saṁskāras). Whatever saṁskāras we have, we create the body to work them out, experience them and enjoy them. Once we have created the body and live our life,

When we came down to planet Earth, we came with enough energy to work out and complete our root thought patterns, saṁskāras. Listen! God never sends us empty handed. He sends us with everything. He sends us with our inner powers, but we have forgotten that we even have these great powers.

Your four inner powers are: the power of words or vāk śakti; the power of thoughts or mano śakti; the power of feeling or prema śakti; and the power of living or ātma śakti. Please listen! Karma refers to the unfulfilled desires that we create over many births, which pull us back again to take birth and fulfill them. We have three types of karma—sañcita, prārabdha and āgāmya.

Sañcita karma is our complete bank of unfulfilled karmas like our safety deposit or the files archived in our office vault. Prārabdha karma are those karmas that we have brought and come in this life, like files in filing cabinets which we access and work on regularly. Āgāmya karma are like the new files on our table that we keep creating — new karma that we create in every life.

We must exhaust all three types of karmas to experience enlightenment. Sañcita karma is all that we have accumulated over many births. Prārabdha karma is karma that we brought with us to work out in this life. Āgāmya karma is what we acquire newly in this birth.