Yoga Completion in Hereafter
If one does not reach the culmination of yoga practice during the life of the physical body, what opportunity will one have to do so hereafter?
This question bugs serious ascetics who suspect that under the present circumstances there is no chance of completion of the required disciplines in yoga. Regardless of the ultimate objective, whether it be nirvana, samadhi, oneness, transit to a higher dimension, being brahman, going to a spiritual world, whatever, if one does not complete the practice to achieve it or to discover that it is not achievable, how will one complete it hereafter?
Suppose the ascetic transits to a heavenly astral world because he was such a good guy in the last body on earth, then in that place what will happen? Will he continue the practice or will he enjoy the lifestyle in that dimension for as long as fate would permit him to be there?
Where will he be when his qualifying energy peters out and he finds that he fades from the heavenly place and becomes perceptive of his earthly descendants who are currently using physical bodies, his descendants?
Why is it that in the heavenly place he could not continue the austerities and complete them so that there would be no need to again take another embryo?
For one thing, I give a hint that unless one’s motive for doing yoga, for striving for liberation is supported in the astral heaven hereafter, one will not be motivated to practice if one is transferred there. For instance, we hear that Buddha became an ascetic because he was confronted with incidences of trauma. In his case, he completely the austerities and got his objective. But suppose some other person has the same idea of Buddha and rejects this existence but does not complete the practice to attain nirvana, then if that person is transferred to an astral heaven hereafter, in that place it is unlikely that he will be motivated to practice because there he would not experience the trauma which was his motivation here. It would be absent and so would be the urge to strive for exemption from it.
That means that he will not practice the austerities in that place but will enjoy that trauma-free lifestyle for the time being, until the buoyant force of his goodness on earth was exhausted, when again he will find himself being attracted to physical people for assuming an embryo as his physical person.
An ascetic must develop a motive for liberation which is applicable to any astral heaven, for then he will seamlessly continue the practice of yoga to completion in any astral place attained hereafter.
