Post by Yogavatar सौन्दर्य on Jan 28, 2024 17:40:51 GMT
The Astral Body is the transparent "aura" in which psychicssee colors and symbols that represent your emotional state. Once in the Astral Body, you can leave to travel in that plane at will. This is the home of the Collective Unconscious, the Universe's data bank.
It is the most subtle of material, at the atomic level. The Astral Bodyis governed by the heart chakra and can be mastered through devotional Bhakti Yoga.
The first four bodies are on the earth plane. Up to this point
movement has been horizontal, from the outside world to the inside. Mastery of the four lower bodies is the full fruition of our humanpotential, prerequisite to moving into the next plane of existence,
from human to super-human, to enlightenment.
Jewel in the Lotus Om Mani Peme Hung
The Spiritual (Bliss) Body is the state of full Self Realization,
where the Divine Essence is fully embodied. This is the Fifth Dimension that is talked of so much recently.
The Cosmic Body is the state of God-Realization, where Self
has totally merged into the All. The Nirvanic Body is The Void, beyond human comprehension.
MAN MADE GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE
MAN MADE GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE
It has been said that man is made in the image of God. It is ourobservation that man creates a God to reflect man's self-image. Asour consciousness expands we see ourselves in an ever expandingway, and as we advance, our conception of God advances as well. The untrained mind can deal only with the physical body and the
limited five senses. His God looks like a man and behaves like afather who demands obedience and threatens punishment.
After some refinement the senses are able to see, feel, evensmell and hear life in the more subtle level, the etheric body. Onewho is aware of this level can conceive of God as an essence beyondform.
Tantric techniques are all designed to direct that energy towardthe spine to stimulate the Kundalini in rising. Once it has risen andyou have experienced a glimpse of enlightenment, you can see the
divinity in all of creation; there is no longer any need to see the
Divine as something separate from yourself.