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Hi....i have two questions but they're sort of interconnected
first. How is a certain ego born. How does an individual's karma start? does it even have a starting point ? i figured it might , cause there is a final point when it is used up and the enlightened one is never born again. what would a person that is born with a pure karma be like?
second. what happens to the enlightened one after his final death when he is no longer reborn..are there any discriptions of what it would be like...does he like get stuck in the moment of infinite bliss love and wisdom? what is it like? are there any metaphores...what does the observer perceive then, if the means of perception are gone....does he perceive infinite light?
thank you for you time in answering these questions

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Serg,

1.  A life is like a circle.  There is no end or beginning.  It always repeats and follows the same patterns life after life, except the liberated and enlightened ones.  All life forms have rebirths again and again with the karma; there is no such thing as pure karma.  The enlightened ones are NOT USING their karma UP, but they went through revelations and realizations through their own life experiences, which help them not to create new karma while the old karma has no effect on them.  In this case, they don't need to be reborn again.  However, they have the choice though to choose if they want to come back or not.

2.  After the death of an enlighten ones, their spirit is within the entire universe.  There would not be any likes or dislikes for the enlightened ones after death.  We use "like" and "dislike" only in our world.  Like and dislike simply don't exist for the enlightened ones after death.  They are the light themselves.  We cannot use our own perception to picture how they are after death.  It's just a totally different phenomenon and spectrum.  

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