Self-Realisation in the Next Life - (4973)

This is a question that we at first say to ourselves: "No, in this life, not in the next!". Though as we go along we start to think about it...

Thinking deeply about it, it is not about of having failed but rather having worked and needing more time. When it comes to time and our capacity it is a realistic concern. 

We have to be real with time and our capacity and not suffer.

One thing though, all this thinking can't mean that we reduce the time, energy and attention we are currently putting into our work.

It can only mean that we update our expectations while still doing our best.

We know deep down that what will make the self-realisation of the Being to occur in the next life is that we do all that we possibly can in this life. What is important is the bridge, the connection between lives, so that the work done this life is carried over to the next to be taken up again.

Sometimes it makes one think that if after thousands of years of living a lives completely divorced of the Being and having accruing great quantities of karmic debt, how can all of that be undone in one life to get the self-realisation? 

Well we are told that the self-realisation is one thing but undoing everything from all those lives is another which indeed does take more than a life time after the third mountain is complete.

Well the Being can do it, it is the miracle of the Being that it can realise itself via the three mountains in a lifetime. Many have realised themselves with the three mountains in a life time. Yet how many have done it over a few lifetimes? Has to be many also.

There are many people in Gnosis who have come to the teachings in old age and they are working now in preparation for the next life. 

There are many who are young and they are being prepared for the next life or later.

What can not be guaranteed is giving up now and taking it up in the next life to success.

In any case this or the next life fighting to our fullest capacity for our self-realisation is what is needed of us.

To need to complete our work in the next life is certainly not a failure, it could well be the plan of the Monad for reasons the essence can know now or will only know in the next life when it unfolds.

Many times when we see a realistic goal in our sights we work towards it with much more 'gusto' and dedication than before when things were not quite clear and very uncertain.

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