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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 29]
devotee, who is free from all material desires experienced on the mental platform and who is also free from empiric philosophical speculation or fruitive activity, is always above material conditioning and is always liberated.
TEXT 66
मन एव मनुष्यस्य पूर्वरूपाणि शंसति । 
    भविष्यतश्च भद्रं ते तथैव न भविष्यतः ॥६६॥
mana eva manuṣyasya 
    pūrva-rūpāṇi śaṁsati 
    bhaviṣyataś ca bhadraṁ te 
    tathaiva na bhaviṣyataḥ
manaḥ—the mind; eva—certainly; manuṣyasya—of a man; pūrva—past; rūpāṇi—forms; śaṁsati—indicates; bhaviṣyataḥ—of one who will take birth; ca—also; bhadraṁ—good fortune; te—unto you; tathā—thus; eva—certainly; na—not; bhaviṣyataḥ—of one who will take birth.
TRANSLATION
O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity's attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his association with material nature. According to one's mental composition, one can understand what the living entity was in his past life as well as what kind of body he will have in the future. Thus the mind indicates the past and future bodies.
PURPORT
The mind is the index of information about one's past and future life. If a man is a devotee of the Lord, he cultivated devotional service in his previous life. Similarly, if one's mind is criminal, he was criminal in his last life. In the same way, according to the mind, we can understand what will happen in a future life. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is said:
ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā 
    madhye tiṣṭhanti rājasāḥ 
    jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti-sthā 
    adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ
“Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets;