There is life after death. Death is not a full stop, it is a comma. It is like going from one room to another room. And when we pass from one room to another room we carry our clothes that we are wearing. Similarly, after death when the soul leaves this physical, gross and mortal body in this world and when we start our journey in our next life we carry our deeds from the previous life with us. There is nothing else that we carry forward with us except our deeds.
Money stays behind here. We do not take it with us when we die. Our house, car, family, even our body stays behind. Only our deeds come with us. Some deeds give us fruit immediately, for example, when you eat, our hunger is satisfied immediately; some deeds give us the fruit after some time. If we live an irregular life, for example, no proper time to sleep or eat, then it will tell on our health in a few years.
Some deeds take a long time to give fruit. They don’t give the fruit in this life. So when we die, those deeds come with us to the next life and the collective fruit of all those deeds is destiny. Destiny is the collective fruit of all our past deeds.
Destiny decides three things in our life:
- The kind of body we receive, where we will be born and who will be our parents;
- What our life span will be;
- Our fate, how much happiness and sorrow we will have to bear in life.
One thing is for sure; every deed has its own outcome that we have to accept. Until we do not bear the fruit of all our deeds, our deeds do not rest.
However, to relieve ourselves from bearing the outcomes of our bad deeds there are two ways:
- Knowledge which is a fire that burns these sins;
- The path of devotion which involves singing the name of God which destroys our sins. So we should ask God for His forgiveness and chant his name all the time. These relieve the burden of the fruits of our bad deeds.
