A difficult paradox to understand: God is in everything, but everything is not contained in God's being

At the end of each cycle of creation, sustainment and dissolution everything created goes back to the unmanifested state that is God’s being. And, at the beginning of the next cycle, He brings forth all of creation once again. Over and over again, God produces the myriad of things that make up creation, all of which are subject to the finite laws of nature. But God is not affected by the actions of His creatures because He witnesses it all from an aloof position of detachment. Even though God pervades the entire universe, He does not abide in creation. Just as the wind exists in empty space but is not the space itself, all of creation has its existence in God, but the created things are not the unmanifested being that is God. Because of God, creation can revolve through these cycles of creation and dissolution.

There are two paths you can take in this life. One leads to absolute freedom and the other leads to eventual rebirth in the world. Those who seek God pursue a path that generates more internal life energy as they awaken to the reality that the light of their lives is God. They remain awake as if in perpetual daylight to their need to find God and thus move their life energy up through the various energy centers in the spine (chakras) toward the brow chakra.

            Those who remain deluded by the illusion created by the world follow a path that leads to mortal bondage. They are asleep to reality as if in perpetual night. Their life energy is constantly flowing outward as they pursue worldly pleasures and it remains bound in the lower chakras at the base of the spine. It lacks sufficient energy to move upward and out the brow chakra at the moment of death. No one who knows the truth about these two paths have gained an advantage beyond mere study of the scriptures or performance of religious rituals such as penance or tithing.

Cosmic day and cosmic night

Just as the day dawns and gives way to night, all of creation arises in its infinite variety out of the unmanifested state and naturally merges back into the oneness of the unmanifest. The cosmic day dawns with its creation and lasts for thousands of ages before the cosmic night sees everything dissolve into oneness for thousands of ages as well. This cycle repeats itself as the oneness remanifests as separate forms again at the dawn of another cosmic day. Beyond these manifested and unmanifested states of phenominal existence is the truly unmanifested reality which exists eternally and remains untouched by these cycles of creation and dissolution. Experiencing this unmanifested state of reality which is infinite and indestructible is the ultimate goal of life. Those who attain this highest state never return to normal life in the world.

Those great souls who successfully reach the ultimate goal of life, union with God, have so perfected themselves that they no longer need to return to the painful realm of mortality to learn more lessons. As difficult as the practice may seem, God-realization is easily and naturally achieved by anyone who whole-heartedly remembers Him daily with his or her mind intensely and continuously focused on nothing but God. Only those who do so transcend the cycle of birth and death.

What happens to your life energy at the time of death?

At the time of death, if someone who has practiced the spiritual techniques of uniting one’s consciousness with God’s consciousness can keep his or her mind fixed on the one Supreme Being whose form is unimaginable, who exists beyond darkness and is self-effulgent like the sun, who is subtler than the smallest particle and supports everything like a great ruler, eternal and omniscient, that person will experience union with God. This happen when, by closing off the nine gates of the body (2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 2 organs of excretion and the mouth) and gathering the life energy in the heart, that life energy goes to the head and fully penetrates the brow chakra. Then by remembering God at the moment this happens one’s life energy merges with the all-pervasive omniscient vibrational energy that is God. This highest goal is reached by those who have led a life of self-discipline and have renounced their attachment to their egos and physical bodies and whose minds, stabilized by meditation are unwaveringly fixed on God.

It is said that a person’s fate after death is reflected in his or her thoughts at the moment of death. These thoughts are formed from our most frequently repeated thoughts during life because our minds become habituated in that direction. So, if you think of God constantly and struggle to do good and be good, our hearts and minds will be given to think of God at the moment of death and you will go directly to Him.

The Bhagavad Gita describes God as the uncreated imperishable absolute that gives rise to all of creation and exists in human beings as the individual soul, the true Self behind the ego and personality. Through the power of His divine will, He causes the birth, sustenance and dissolution of everything by altering the vibration of the very energy that makes up His undifferentiated existence in seemingly infinite ways. This is the single cosmic action which brings into existence all karma (worldly actions and their consequences). The result is that there are three levels of existence; the physical created universe, the spiritual realm and the one absolute state of being that is the origin of the other two.