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  • It is not possible to do so because once you are in the heavenly worlds, you will have no experience to remind you that you should dislike existence and should strive for liberation.

    Try to remember some bad experience while you are in a happy happy state of mind or while you are at the peak of a sexual climax experience. It is near impossible to do this. Perhaps a few great yogis can do it, not others. 

    Thus the safe thing to do is to avoid the heavenly world and go to the siddha loka existence, which is just above the heavenly Swarga place. If one can reach there and remain in isolation with other yogis, it is hopeful that one can complete the required austerities.

    This does not mean that if you go to a hellish world hereafter, you will think of being liberated while you are there. In fact, try it out now, by being in a bad situation, like in a car accident or having terminal cancer, and then thinking of doing yoga austerities. What usually happens is that the mind shifts to wanting relief from that condition but not in terms of liberation.

    There is the example of the woman Pingala who was a prostitute. She was in dire circumstances of poverty because of not getting any man to be interested in her sexual services and then she suddenly thought of becoming liberated. But she admitted that the only reason that happened was due to her getting the grace of Krishna. In other words, usually one cannot think of liberation in either extreme condition, that of pleasure and that of trauma.

    I read that Gautam Buddha thought of liberation after he saw some traumatic things like death of a body, sickness of a body, disinterest in social activity but when we see these things, they do not motivate us to become liberated. So, it means that it will be difficult to be liberated even in ugly circumstances,

    Pingala’s story is in the Uddhava Gita Explained.