Ego fail in his spiritual birth, or be reborn into a far worse existence than ever—­they would, perhaps, be less lavish in their hospitality._

Premature death brought on by vicious courses, by over-study, or by voluntary sacrifice for some great cause, will bring about delay in Kamaloka, but the state of the disembodied entity will depend on the motive that cut short the life.

There are very few, if any, of the men who indulge in these vices, who feel perfectly sure that such a course of action will lead them eventually to premature death.  Such is the penalty of Maya.  The “vices” will not escape their punishment; but it is the cause, not the effect, that will be punished, especially an unforeseen, though probable effect.  As well call a man a “suicide” who meets his death in a storm at sea, as one who kills himself with “over-study”.  Water is liable to drown a man, and too much brain work to produce a softening of the brain matter which may carry him away.  In such a case no one ought to cross the Kalapani, nor even to take a bath for fear of getting faint in it and drowned (for we all know of such cases), nor should a man do his duty, least of all sacrifice himself for even a laudable and highly beneficial cause as many of us do.  Motive is everything, and man is punished in a case of direct responsibility, never otherwise.  In the victim’s case the natural hour of death was anticipated accidentally, while in that of the suicide death is brought on voluntarily and with a full and deliberate knowledge of its immediate consequences.  Thus a man who causes his death in a fit of temporary insanity is not a felo de se, to the great grief and often trouble of the Life Insurance Companies.  Nor is he left a prey to the temptations of the Kamaloka, but falls asleep like any other victim.

The population of Kamaloka is thus recruited with a peculiarly dangerous element by all the acts of violence, legal and illegal, which wrench the physical body from the soul and send the latter into Kamaloka clad in the desire body, throbbing with pulses of hatred, passion, emotion, palpitating with longings for revenge, with unsatiated lusts.  A murderer in the body is not a pleasant member of society, but a murderer suddenly expelled from the body is a far more dangerous entity; society may protect itself against the first, but in its present state of ignorance it is defenceless as against the second.

Finally, the Immortal Triad sets itself free from the desire body, and passes out of Kamaloka; the Higher Manas draws back its Ray, coloured with the life-scenes it has passed through, and carrying with it the experiences gained through the personality it has informed.  The labourer is called in from the field, and he returns home bearing his sheaves with him, rich or poor, according to the fruitage of the life.  When the Triad has quitted Kamaloka, it passes wholly out of the sphere of earth attractions: