When these qualities exert their influence on your mind, your actions will reflect it and you will become bound by the results of those actions (your karma). Those who think that they will be reincarnated believe that these actions influence the kind of birth they receive in their next life on earth. If the mind is predominantly pure, the soul goes to the pure realm of the wise. When passionate energy prevails at the time of death, a person is reborn into a family which encourages activities that satisfy the senses. If one’s mind is permeated with darkness and decay at death, he or she will be reborn into a family which is deluded by the illusion of the world and thus are ignorant of the truth, so they teach their children the same. Therefore, the fruit of goodness begets harmony and happiness in one’s life. The fruit of actions driven by passionate energy is ultimately pain and suffering. The fruit of an action born of delusion is ignorance and will cause one to mistake what is unreal for reality.