Idiots do bad things and go to hell.
Idiots do good things and go to heaven.
Only the wise will go beyond doing good and bad and be liberated.

- Chandrakirti

The characteristic of this form of Neoplatonism is that the emanations of the upper world are connected to the ones of the lower world by intermediate beings; the higher the gradation of these beings the more they resemble the character of demons and gods; yet the more they unite with physical matter the more they appear as spiritual forces asleep in all animals, plants, stones and all other creatures of nature. (...) We clearly see from the (teachings of the) Lauteren Brüder that the forces of the universal soul are changing their faces and that they can be perceived as forces, or angels of God, or spirits, or even Pneumata (depending on the level of emanation they are encountered at).

Theodor Hopfner

“But a soul that never saw the truth cannot take a human shape, since a human being must understand speech in terms of general forms, proceeding to bring many perceptions together into a reasoned unity. That process is the recollection of the things our soul saw when it was traveling with god, when it disregarded the things we now call real and lifted up its head to what is truly real instead.”

Plato

Lord Shiva said: "If a devotee of Lord Vishnu hates Me or if a devotee of Mine hates Vishnu, both will incur curses and never realize reality."

- Shiva Mahapurana, Rudra samhita 2.2, Sati khanda 43.21

"To say what Hyle is, is not puerile. Hyle is the primary matter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Azoth is the seed of all metals, when it is extracted from magnesia and Silver.

Hyle is the Beginning of all things, a confused mass and primary matter, which is neither moist nor dry, not earth nor water, not light nor darkness, not air nor fire."

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Everything you do and say and think should be predicated on the possibility of your imminent departure from life. But, if the gods exist, leaving this world can’t be something to fear, because they wouldn’t let anything bad happen to you.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.11

Thereafter, at the end of the millennium, the Lord Himself in the form of Rudra, the destroyer, will annihilate the complete creation as the wind displaces the clouds.

- Srimad Bhagavatam Mahapurana 2.10.43

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At several places in his commentary (8:5,6,7 and 8:14,26,27), Acharya Abhinavagupta gives a lengthy elaboration on the characteristics of “the last moment”, i.e., the moment when the departing soul is leaving the body.
At the outset, Acharya Abhinavagupta points out that whatever object one had meditated on (throughout one’s life), that very object he attains at the time of leaving his body. However, a significant de­ parture from most of the other commentators is that, according to Acharya Abhinavagupta, it is not necessary for one to remember his (de­ sired object) at the very last moment of leaving his body. For ex­ ample, a yogin who has meditated on God throughout his life at­ tains the highest reality whether he remembers God, at the last moment, or not.

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Śūnyata (शून्यत, “void”).— If you can concentrate on your body as void (śūnyata) or space and transcend all thoughts, even for a moment, your mind will be liberated and will take on the form of that void. It is important to note that you do not have to concentrate for hours and hours in order to experience this state. Even if you focus the mind for just a moment, it is enough to give you the experience of a heightened state of awareness.

( Vijñānabhairava verse 46)

“Regarding your question concerning the spirit souls falling into Maya’s influence, it is not that those who have developed a passive relationship with Krishna are more likely to fall into nescient activities. . . the soul may fall down from any position or any relationship by misusing his independence.”

Srila Prabhupada

The world considers You inauspicious, O Destroyer of Lust who plays in the smashan smeared with the ash from funeral pyres, wearing a necklace of human skulls, with ghouls for comrades. But for those who remember You with devotion, O Bestower of Boons, You are supremely auspicious. (Shiva Mahimna Stotra, 24)

Disciple : How can we possibly wipe out the past record when we do not know nor have the means of knowing what it is?

Jagadguru: Except to a very few highly advanced souls, the past certainly remains unknown. But even our ignorance of it is very often an advantage to us. For, if we happen to know all the limitless varieties of results which we have accumulated by our actions in this life and the countless lives that have preceded it, we will be simply staggered at the magnitude and number of such results and give up in despair any attempt to overcome or mitigate them. Even in this life, forgetfulness is a boon which the merciful God has been pleased to bestow on us, so that we may not be buried at any moment with a recollection of all that has transpired in the past. Similarly, the divine spark in us is ever bright with hope and makes it possible for us to confidently exercise our freewill. It is not for us to belittle the significance of these two boons-forgetfulness of the past and hope for the future.

- Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Swamigal, 35th Sringeri Shankaracharya

Eu ficarei doente, envelhecerei, morrerei, serei separado daqueles que amo, das minhas relações e assim por diante. Desta forma, o efeito totalmente amadurecido das minhas ações chegará a mim e a mais ninguém, e, portanto, não estou além da dependência do que fiz nas vidas anteriores.

Pensar assim repetidamente é o antídoto para coisas como a arrogância. Faça todos os esforços para não se tornar arrogante meditando neste antídoto.

Kangyur Rinpoche