(Should you want to read these articles from Part One, you may have to click in on
the label marked "Soul journey".)
Sri Yukteswar continues....
COMMINGLING WITH THE ETERNAL
Just as most people on Earth have not learned through meditation-acquired vision to appreciate the superior joys and advantages of astral life and thus, after death, desire to return to the limited, imperfect pleasures of Earth, so many astral beings, during the normal disintegration of their astral bodies, fail to picture the advanced state of spiritual joy in the causal world and, dwelling on the thoughts of the more gross and gaudy astral happiness, yearn to revisit the astral paradise. Heavy astral karma must be redeemed by such beings before they can achieve, after astral death, a permanent stay in the causal thought-world, so thinly partitioned from the Creator.
Only when a being has no further desires for experiences in the pleasing-to-the-eye astral cosmos, and cannot be tempted to go back there, does he remain in the causal world. Completing there the work of redeeming all causal karma or seeds of past desires, the confined soul thrusting out the last of the three corks of ignorance and, emerging from the final jar of the causal body, commingles with the Eternal.
MANKIND´S THREEFOLD NATURE
The interpenetration of mankind´s three bodies is expressed in many ways through his/her threefold nature. In the wakeful state on Earth a human being is conscious more or less of their three vehicles. When a person is sensuously intent on tasting, smelling, touching, listening, or seeing, they are working principally through their physical body. Visualizing or willing, one is working mainly through ones astral body. His/her causal being finds expression when a person is thinking or diving deep in introspection or meditation; the cosmical thoughts of genius come to the person who habitually contacts his/her causal body. In this sense an individual may be classified broadly as "a material person", "an energetic person", or "an intellectual person".
A person identifies themself about sixteen hours daily with their physical vehicle. Then they sleep; if one dreams, one remains in ones astral body, effortlessly creating any object even as do the astral beings. If ones sleep is deep and dreamless, for several hours one is able to transfer ones consciousness, or sense of I-ness, to the causal body; such sleep is revivifying. A dreamer is contacting their astral body and not their causal body; so their sleep is not fully refreshing.
A CLOSING CONVERSATION
Yogananda : I had been lovingly observing Sri Yukteswar while he gave his wondrous exposition. "Angelic Guru" I said, "your body looks exactly as it did when last I wept over it in the Puri Ashram."
Sri Yukteswar : "Oh yes, my new body is a perfect copy of the old one. I materialize or dematerialize this form any time at will, much more frequently than I did while on Earth. By quick dematerialization, I now travel instantly by light express from planet to planet or, indeed, from astral to causal or to physical cosmos."
Yogananda : "O Master, I was grieving so deeply about your death!"
Sri Yukteswar with twinkling eyes of love and amusement replied : "Ah, wherein did I die? Isn´t there some contradiction here?
You were only dreaming on Earth; on that Earth you saw my dream-body. Later you buried that dream-image. Now my finer fleshly body - which you behold and are embracing rather closely - is resurrected on another finer dream-planet of God. Some day that finer dream-body and finer dream-planet will pass away; they too are not forever. All dream bubbles must eventually burst at a final wakeful touch. Differentiate, my son Yogananda, between dreams and Reality!
I have now told you, Yogananda, the truths of my life, death and resurrection. Grieve not for me; rather broadcast everywhere the story of my resurrection from the God-dreamed Earth of mankind to another God-dreamed planet of astrally garbed souls! New hope will be infused into the hearts of misery-made, death-fearing dreamers of the world. Tell all that whosoever knows by "nirbikalpa realisation"(state of unconditioned oneness) that your Earth is a dream of God, can come to the finer dream-created planet of Hiranyaloka, and there find me resurrected in a body exactly like my earthly one.... Yogananda, tell all!!"
(These past nine articles have been teachings from "Autobiography of a Yogi". The picture above is the Master Guru Sri Yukteswar Giri with his then student Paramahansa Yogananda.)
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