Atheists, don't say you haven't be warned.
Again this revelation is reported by the Maharishi who while traveling out of body in the spirit realm met the spirit of atheists and saints and witnessed how things happen there and the principles of God, all of those confirm the teachings in the Bible.
It is now while we are in the body that we can shape our mental setup and belief, because we manifest as we believe.
Very interesting story:
"Once, the spirit of an atheist who lived in Rothak, a town in Punjab, India, visited the Maharishi. The spirit appeared very restless and miserable as he narrated his life on earth to the Maharishi. When he was living in India he scorned at religion. He also vehemently denied the existence of God. He lived luxuriously and lasciviously, believing that there was no life after death. But when he died he was shocked to find himself alive in the spirit world.
Although like all other spirits he enjoyed perfect freedom and was at liberty to go anywhere and everywhere, he found this freedom worse than imprisonment in an earthly prison, for he had finally come to realize that what awaited him was an eternity of grief and despair. Thus he poured out his sorrow to the Maharishi.
The Maharishi was moved with compassion for this spirit and said to him: “Why don’t you repent and pray for another chance for repentance?” As the conversation was going on a saintly spirit who lived in New York joined their company. “It’s no use,” said the atheist spirit momentarily looking at the newly arrived saintly spirit, “for I have lost my opportunity.” Moved by such a display of tragic sadness, the Maharishi thought perhaps he would himself pray to God for the pitiable spirit.
As soon as he finished praying, an angel came down from heaven and said: “There is no hope for this spirit now because there is no possibility of changing his nature in the after-life, which was formed during his life-time on earth.”
Nevertheless, the Maharishi entreated the angel to do something for this miserable and wretched spirit. On hearing the fervent prayer of a righteous man (Jas 5:16), God permitted the angel to bring the doomed spirit before Him.
Since the wretched condition of this spirit from the kingdom of darkness would not be able to bear God’s holy presence, God appeared before the spirit in a very faint light form. But even that faint light-glory of God was too dazzling for the spirit to bear and he fell flat on his face.
Only then did the saintly spirit from New York who was standing quietly by break his silence. This is what he explained to the Maharishi. When an earthen clay vessel is still wet it is possible to transform it into any shape.
But once it has been baked in the furnace and become hardened, changing its form would require that the vessel be broken.
Death is the ripening of life, like the hardened baked clay vessel. No one can change his nature after death. That is why the scripture says: “He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still” (Rev 22:11).
No one can change the manner and orientation of their life after death. An evil life cannot be converted into a good life. Neither can an infernal spirit transform into an angelic spirit. Every spirit being is made of what he loves and craves for while he is living in the earth. To convert a spirit in the after-life from its basic nature, whether it be vile or pure, is to destroy it totally.
The nature of a spirit continues to remain as what it was when it was living in the earth. No one in the spiritual world can resist his own lust, because one’s lust belongs to one’s will and the will belongs to one’s nature. Everyone acts according to one’s nature.
Although a person leaves behind his mortal body at death, his nature is retained and follows him into the spiritual world. The reader, here, can pause to reflect again on the true incident narrated by the Lord Jesus:
LUKE 16:19-31
19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.
20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
21 desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’
25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.
26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,
28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’
29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’
30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”
From this narrative the reader can observe the following details. In his state after death, the rich man still retained full consciousness of his own identity, of Lazarus, and of his family. His nature, thoughts, and memory were intact. In Hades, he could still see, hear, feel, taste, just like while on earth. And, significantly, we learn that once a person has crossed over through the doorway of death a spiritual law exists that forbids the alteration of the allotted state of the soul and spirit.
Hence to change his nature whether vile or pure into another form is to annihilate his nature. Annihilating one’s nature means the very annihilation of one’s existence".
- Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj in "The Maharishi of Mount Kailaash" book
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