So there are fundamental problems in people’s approach. But ultimately the question is, can you make your real rendezvous with Knowledge and with those who are here to be a part of a greater purpose that is emerging in your life? This is what you will reflect upon once you leave this life and return to your spiritual family, your learning group. They will not be interested in your hobbies and fascinations. They will not be interested in your tragedies or your mistakes, your lost romances or your failed economic adventures. They will not be interested in your psychopathology, or in the unique features of your former personality. They will only be interested in whether you made the sacred rendezvous with Knowledge and with the others who were sent to meet you. They will look at you and they will say, “Were you successful?” And you will be unable to misrepresent the truth to them, for beyond the world, deception in relationship is almost impossible.

That is all that will matter. The vast majority of things that are important to you now or that preoccupy you now will not matter in the end. They will ask, “Did you make your rendezvous? Did you achieve what you were sent into the world to achieve?” And you will have to tell them the truth because it will be self-evident to everyone. And from that position, you will be able to see clearly, without distortion.

So what can you do then, but return to try again. There is no “judgment day”, where if you failed in one life you go to everlasting hell. This is a purely human invention. But the consequences of not finding your purpose and trying to live without it are very real and are evident every day in your thinking, in your demeanor, your behavior and your experience. Without this purpose, you are living a kind of hell—a hell that is beautiful, but a hell where you can never be happy, where you are never really at ease with yourself because you have not been honoring your deeper nature.