Death

[pixiedust]

"Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it."

Paramahansa Yogananda

[JustBe]

Yep.
Don’t put off till tomorrow, what you can do ‘right now’.

I’ve had intercessions from family spirits who had unfinished business. They tended to it in spirit form.

When it was done, I could feel how it supported all to ‘move on’..

Incredible really!

[Rah nam]

Originally Posted by pixiedust

"Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it."

Paramahansa Yogananda

What this Parama.... what ever suggests is highly inaccurate.
What we are outside of this reality has very little to do with what we play out inside this reality.

[JustBe]

Originally Posted by Rah nam

What this Parama.... what ever suggests is highly inaccurate.
What we are outside of this reality has very little to do with what we play out inside this reality.

That’s a very separate view.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by pixiedust

"Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Yup.

[sentient]

Originally Posted by pixiedust

"Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Adding to the chorus …
This is so-o true, and a good reminder.

Anybody who has had communications with the departed knows that “they are exactly the same after death as they were before”
Except now they can communicate ‘psychicly’ … energetically and are readily able to foresee the futures of the living.

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[pixiedust]

Originally Posted by Rah nam

What this Parama.... what ever suggests is highly inaccurate.
What we are outside of this reality has very little to do with what we play out inside this reality.

You make a good point too, Rah Nam. I suspect he talks about spiritual maturity, and the cultivation of such.

We are not just released from our errors, are we?

[Rah nam]

Originally Posted by pixiedust

You make a good point too, Rah Nam. I suspect he talks about spiritual maturity, and the cultivation of such.

We are not just released from our errors, are we?

What most forget or don't know, this is just Theater. What we are as spirits has mostly little to do with what we play out in this reality. Of cause we seek progression toward .... what ever we call it, source, home, heaven. And it does not matter whether we choose the path of the light or the dark, the goal is the same.
In regards to the original post,it is correct to a point, were we ,as long as we are within the earth realm, (non physical) are in deed in the same state of mind since we are still connected to the mind.

At the point that we leave this non-physical earth realm all our experiences, state of development will be uploaded into a data bank, which will be downloaded again at our next incarnation.

Those who remain within the non-physical earth realm will at some point be drawn up into a physical body and in deed continue where they have left off.
One can not say, if we come from outside the earth realm that we continue where we have left off. Those who come from the Astral realm, have the ability to change their energy structure, in order to have different experiences, choose potential life partners, and so on. And as I have said more than once, I am sure that most if not all who are on this board, have to ability to leave this realm and enter, if they choose from the astral, or their original realm, for those who originated either in the realm of the Fae or the angelic realm, after all, we always return to the realms of our origin.

[utopiandreamchild]

I'd like to think that it only takes one shot to get it right, however some learn faster than others. One-time for all time I say. Schools out permanently. Lesson learnt. Love rules. Amen

[pixiedust]

Fair points, Rah Nam - I suspect Paramahansa Yogananda is talking for most people though, and this includes some of us on this forum too (as opposed to those whom you refer to as angels). Spiritual awareness or maturity. I think it took me a recognition too to say 'do the work now' or it will be still there. Death is not a cure, perhaps merely a transition.

Thank you for some great points also.