incarnation on Earth. The soul can work at digesting the actions
that were performed. It can try to prepare its next incarnation in
the best possible way. But even though deplorable deeds may have
been performed and opportunities have been missed, it is simply
out of the question for any past action to be changed. This can
prove to be a terrible drama for the travelling soul.
This spiritual fact can also be found in the Hindu tradition.
Sanskrit texts describe how, as long as the individual soul is not
incarnated, and even while staying in the mother's womb, it is
still full of good resolutions: “I shall be a great worshipper of
Shiva, I shall devote my life to the practice of yoga...”
But as soon as the individual is caught in the vortex of life, he or
she immediately forgets about all the good intentions and starts to
behave according to the motivations of the lower ego. Then, as
soon as the soul leaves the body at the time of death, it realises
painfully that many occasions were missed. And the cycle repeats
itself once more. Some progress may be made, but often this is
not much compared to what could have been achieved if a
remembrance of the purpose had been maintained.
This exercise, in which the day is seen backwards, aims at creating
every night an equivalent of the phase of contemplation of one's
actions, which normally takes place only after death. Instead of
waiting until you die, the maturation process can begin here and
now, thereby speeding up the course of evolution.
Note that it would be quite inappropriate to go through a mental
review and to try to judge the moral value of our actions in an
inner dialogue such as: “I should have done this, I should not have
done that...” The exercise works at a much deeper level. It is not
through a mental dialogue but through a deep opening of the soul
that the maturation process will be initiated. The shallow
consciousness of a moral assessment would prove completely
inadequate to trigger the expected result.
After death, the retrospective vision of life circumstances not
only takes place during the first three and a half days, it is also
repeated at different stages of the journey, with different
modalities. If you have patiently observed the panorama of your
day, every night before going to sleep, then a lot of time and
energy will be saved later. Not that there is any urgency after
death, but if you have done this work, your energy will be
available to perform some other important tasks, and make the
barré
(Barré)
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