Master and Guru Yukteswar continues....
ESCAPING RELATIVITY
When a Soul finally gets out of the three "jars" of bodily delusion, it becomes one with the infinite without any loss of individuality. Christ had won this final freedom even before he was born as Jesus (Yeshua). In three stages of his past, symbolized in his earth-life as the three days of his experience of death and resurrection, he had attained full power to arise in Spirit.
The undeveloped man or woman must undergo countless earthly and astral and causal incarnations in order to emerge from his/her three bodies. A master who achieves this final freedom may elect to return to Earth as a prophet, to bring other human beings back to God, or like myself he/she may choose to reside in the astral cosmos. There a saviour assumes some of the burden of the inhabitants´ karma and thus help them to terminate their cycle of reincarnation in the astral cosmos and go on permanently to the causal spheres. Or a freed Soul may enter the causal world to aid its beings to shorten their span in the causal body and thus attain Absolute Freedom.
KARMA
The physical karma or desires of mankind must be completely worked out before his or her permanent stay in astral worlds becomes possible. Two kinds of beings live in the astral spheres. Those who still have earthly karma to dispose of and must therefore reinhabit a gross physical body in order to pay their karmic debts, may be classified after physical death, as temporary visitors to the astral world rather than as permanent residents.
Beings with unredeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the higher causal sphere of cosmic ideas, but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds only, conscious successively of their physical body of sixteen gross elements, and their astral body of nineteen subtle elements. After each loss of the physical body, however, an undeveloped being from the earth remains for the most part in the deep stupor of the death-sleep and is hardly conscious of the beautiful astral sphere. After an astral rest, such a person returns to the material plane for further lessons, gradually accustoming himself/herself, through repeated journeys, to the worlds of subtle astral texture.
ASTRAL RESIDENTS
Normal or long-established residents of the astral universe, on the other hand, are those who, freed forever from all material longings, need return no more to the gross vibrations of Earth. Such beings have only astral and causal karma to work out. At astral death these beings pass to the infinitely finer and more delicate causal world. At the end of a certain span, determined by cosmic law, these advanced beings then return to Hiranyaloka or a similar high astral planet, reborn in a new astral body to work out their unredeemed astral karma.
You may now comprehend more fully that I AM (Sri Yukteswar) resurrected by divine decree, as a saviour of astrally reincarnating souls coming back from the causal spheres, in particular, rather than of those astral beings who are coming up from the Earth. Those from Earth, if they still retain vestiges of material karma, do not rise to the very high astral planets like Hiranyaloka.
(Article from "Autobiography of a Yogi".)
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