Hello, my dear reader, welcome to the reality of yoga, and this reality includes much more than just the visible physical world perceived by the senses, the physical body with its ingenious life support system. The reality of yoga covers many levels of human existence, on which we have yet to become at least a little more conscious. It is for this great goal that we will talk today about the structure of the entire structure of human bodies, about the purpose of the etheric, astral, mental and causal bodies, about how they affect each other and what is needed for them all to be healthy, and we are happy.
Seven human bodies.
People often think that they are a body with arms, legs, head and all other visible and medically studied organs. However, in fact, any person, even if he does not realize it, has, in addition to the physical body, several others. Moreover, all these bodies are closely interconnected and strongly influence each other. 
In classical yoga and esotericism, they consider seven bodies:
1) Physical body, with which we are all more or less familiar, which is actively studied by modern science, and which allows the soul to manifest and act in the visible physical world.
2) Etheric body. Everything is energy, and even the physical body is simply the most (of all other bodies) condensed energy. The etheric body is less condensed and therefore it is not visible to the physical eyes, it is impossible to touch it with hands, in general it is not provable for the sense organs. Those who have developed more subtle vision are able to see auras, just the same, they see the etheric body. In principle, it is not so important to see it, it is important to understand that the physical body is a consequence of the ethereal one, and therefore if there are any disturbances and blocks in the etheric body, then the physical body will also get sick. The etheric body is often referred to as the energy body.
3) Astral body. All our emotions and feelings are possible only because we have an astral level of being and astral bodies. This is even more subtle than the ethereal layer of reality, which is also the largest in scale (compared to the physical) multi-layered world into which a person enters after the death of the physical body. The upper layers of the astral world are heaven, the lower layers are hell. Anyone who strives to perform at least a little, has nothing to be afraid of :)
Now the main thing is to understand and remember that each of our emotions, and even more so all our feelings (a longer and more stable manifestation), have a strong influence on the astral body, and this body is closely connected with the etheric body, and if the feelings are restless, angry, tense, pressing , compressing and limiting (positive feelings of joy and kindness expand the consciousness, it is pleasant to experience them, negative feelings, on the contrary, narrow and limit), then this will cause a blockage in the channels of the etheric body, resulting in a disease of the physical body.
4) Mental body. Body of thought. Any thought comes to a person precisely from the world of ideas - the mental world. It is also a layer of reality of the most incredible scale, even thinner than the astral one. Even after death, few people get to it, because after the astral world the majority are immediately born again in new bodies in the physical world. But at the same time, the mental plane always has a direct relation to each of us: some thoughts constantly come to us, all our emotional and sensual states are accompanied by a thought process, and the connection between thoughts and feelings is obvious! 
Any feeling is this energy of a certain height, which naturally attracts a thought of the same frequency to the mind of a person. And allowing these thoughts to develop, a person can strengthen the feeling or, if he does not allow thoughts to develop, switches them to another topic, then he can completely switch to another wave of feelings. That's how they work. Even if at the moment, a negative emotion has come to the fore, accompanied by unkind thoughts, it would be very wise to say, for example: "I am always calm and friendly". It’s good to try to feel exactly calm and benevolent (you can go back in your memories at some pleasant moment). In general, the faster a person gets himself out of a negative state, the better it will be for all his bodies, including the physical. Exiting stress through alcohol or stronger intoxicants is frowned upon by real yogis.
5) Causal body. causal body.
Our thoughts, emotions and feelings in the past have become the causes of those actions, conditions, thoughts, feelings that are manifested in the present, at this moment, on this day. For everything in our life there is, generated by us. And the seeds of these causes are stored in the causal body. All the characteristics of a human personality: how kind a person is, how greedy, whether he was born in favorable conditions, is single or met a suitable spouse, whether he will have a job to his liking, whether he will be sick, whether he will have an accident or whether he will live a long time, a healthy life - all this is determined by the reasons inherent in the causal body. Those causal relationships that have not yet manifested themselves, but are only waiting for their turn, are called samskaram- the seeds of karma. In many ways, yoga deals precisely with karma and the burning of samskaras, since the seed that is burned by the fire of meditation, the fire of higher awareness, will no longer be able to germinate. that's what it's designed for in the first place. To some extent, the causal body can be influenced by thoughts and feelings, but the number of seeds in it is so vast that those with more intuition realize that this work can be done only by the most effective method. The most serious reason that prevents you from realizing your true Divine nature is also largely stored in the causal body. A person forgot that he is the Higher Self, forgot his true one, and this is the reason why from incarnation to incarnation people are born with again and again repeated amnesia about it. That is, everything goes in a circle - the reason created in the past. Influences the present, projecting the same cause, which will further affect the future, where there will also be the same cause. People have been trapped in this trap for thousands of years. Bodies change, external conditions seem different, but in fact everything is about the same. Without serious yoga, one cannot get out of this vicious circle.
6) The body of the soul. Spiritual body. When the Boundless Existence, Boundless Consciousness, Boundless Bliss (Sat Chit Ananda, which we really are), decided to create this world, with all its layers and bodies, the first veil was the spiritual body, which allowed to separate from integrity, various souls . These souls, created in the image and likeness of Sat Chit Ananda, are perfect, pure, know their true nature, and everything is good with them (with us real ones) ...
That's when we realize ourselves as a soul, then everything is really good with us. It is from this level that the whole life looks like a fun game, carried out through the five lower bodies, and it is to this level of awareness that yogis strive to reach. Until a person has reached awareness at this level, he is a puppet of karma, samskaras, he is influenced by his immediate environment, mood, weather, ... and when he has reached ... He can influence everything. Saints and great yogis are those who have achieved.
7) Spirit Body. If the soul has played enough in the worlds created by the Creator, it may want to dissolve its last body, and then it will plunge into the Spirit, from which it was created. Perhaps there are some differences between this body and Sat Chit Ananda, even if so, it's like comparing the height of Elbrus and Everest, being at the foot. There is only one way to the top ... and this is exactly it. And the theory will not help to pass through it, all of the above bodies must be realized not theoretically, but from your own experience. .
The state of awareness at the level of the Spiritual body in yoga is called
In general, the gradation of bodies, their names and even the number, may differ slightly depending on the author, but the essence is everywhere the same as I described.
The conclusions are as follows:
- The most important thing to do is to work on and quickly establish a connection with the body of the soul, realize yourself as souls and play on all planes consciously, leaving the shameful state of puppets of emotions, thoughts and actions of the past.
- While there is no complete awareness of oneself as a soul, one must carefully monitor thoughts and feelings, according to - firmly with great determination to work on all habits that interfere
The easiest way to do this is through meditation.
My dear reader, meditate and be happy.
How is a person really made?
An inexperienced person who has mastered materialistic science well will say dismissively: "Great is wisdom, take a textbook of anatomy and physiology and study it." In fact, it turns out not everything is so simple. After all, if it were simple, there would be no incurable diseases. In the meantime, alas, despite the fact that physiologists have scrupulously studied the structure of the human body (physical), there are still no answers to many questions.
The following can be stated: as long as a person is considered only as a physical body, there will be incurable diseases. In addition, new, previously unknown diseases will appear.
The fact of the matter is that, in addition to the visible physical body, a person has six more invisible energy bodies. It is the energy bodies that are the true "I" of a person. And the physical body is just a shell, a home for the soul, an instrument for activity in the physical world.
The physical body of a person and its thin shells are closely interconnected. The state of thin shells affects the state of the physical body. In turn, the behavior of the physical body affects the state of thin energy shells.
The cause of many diseases is outside the physical body, and therefore the healing of a person is possible only through the correction of thin shells. Moreover, a person must bring his energy shells back to normal, and not with the help of psychics or any equipment.
Consider the composition of a person from seven bodies, which are usually called the seven principles.
1. Physical or dense body.
2. The etheric or life body.
3. Astral body.
4. Kama - Manas or lower mind (mental body).
5. Higher Manas or Thinker.
6. Buddhi or spirit soul.
7. Atma or diamond soul.
To better understand, you can imagine a person with his seven bodies in the form of a matryoshka doll. Only unlike nesting dolls, where the bodies of individual nesting dolls do not enter into each other, in a person all bodies penetrate each other, interpenetrate.
Consider separately each principle (body) separately.
First Principle - physical body, consists of dense physical matter and serves as a conductor for the Etheric and Astral bodies. Without a physical body, a person could not realize himself in the physical world.
After the death of the physical body, a person does not die, but continues to live first in the astral body, then in the mental.
The second principle is the etheric body.
The etheric body consists of astral matter (energy), but denser and coarser in its vibrations than the astral body. The etheric body is an exact copy of the physical body and permeates every cell of it. It is the vital energy of the physical body, that is, the body of life.
Without the etheric body, the physical body immediately becomes a dead, empty shell. The etheric body not only nourishes, but also connects the atoms of the physical body with each other. Therefore, when the etheric body leaves at the time of death, the disintegration of atoms begins almost immediately - the process of decomposition.
The spleen plays an important role in saturating the physical body with etheric energy. It is the conductor of solar (energy) prana.
The Third Principle is the Astral body.
This body is finer in its vibrations than the ethereal and, like the ethereal, is a double, a copy of the physical body. But, to be more precise, it is the astral body that is the matrix, the “cliché”, the form according to which the physical body is formed. With a new incarnation of a person in earthly life, an astral body is first created, and the physical body is formed in the womb of the mother in exact accordance with the astral.
The astral body is formed in accordance with the karmic developments of each person. The astral body is also called the vital or body of feelings, emotions, passions and desires. If this body is removed from the physical body, then the physical body loses its sensitivity.
With the introduction of anesthesia, the astral body is separated from the physical, and the person loses sensitivity. The astral body permeates both the etheric and the physical, somewhat going beyond it.
In an undeveloped person, leading a primitive way of life, the astral body is weak, dull, and dirty. And vice versa, in a person who is spiritually and intellectually developed, the astral body is well formed, large in size and shines with beautiful subtle colors.
During sleep the astral body separates and travels in the Astral World while its physical vehicle rests in its bed. In the Astral world, during sleep, astral energy is saturated, which is necessary for the vital activity of the human body. Therefore, everyone needs a good sleep.
If a person is mundane with his interests, overshadowed by life's adversities and his thinking is focused only on this, then his astral body wanders in a dream in the lower Astral spheres, contemplating terrible, terrible or simply unpleasant pictures. Such people complain that they have nightmares.
A man with a broad outlook, inspired by sublime ideas, travels in a dream in the higher Astral spheres, and his dreams are more pleasant and interesting.
There are cases of spontaneous release of the astral body, i.e., regardless of the will of the person, and then such a person observes with surprise himself sitting or lying somewhere from the side. The same cases are known with loss of consciousness during serious illnesses, in accidents, during surgery, and also during clinical death.
Many such examples are described in such books as Life After Death by Moody, Journey Out of the Body by R. Monroe, Beyond the Body by B. Walker, Eyewitnesses of Immortality by P. Kalinowski and others. In Journey Out of the Body and Beyond the Body, the authors describe their own practice of consciously isolating the astral body in order to travel in this subtle spiritual body.
The fourth principle is Kama-Manas.
It is the lower mental body, the lower mind, the intellect. It belongs to the lower constituent principles of a person, expressing his personality and is subject to destruction after each incarnation.
All four lower Principles (bodies) are mortal in nature, only the Higher Triad, which we will consider later, is immortal.
The structure of the Mental body resembles an oval. It is much smaller in size and consists of the subtlest energy, which is difficult to see even with astral vision. The dimensions and quality of the Mental body depend on the quality of thinking. An undeveloped person with a limited outlook has a small mental body with a predominance of gray tones.
In a highly developed person, cleansed of evil passions, striving for everything bright and noble, the mental body is a beautiful sight of iridescent, pulsating gentle and bright light shades.
The task of each person is to get rid of, to defeat all his evil inclinations, in order to purify and improve his Mental body, in order to drown out the voice of his lower "I" for a more successful evolution.
A person is literally built by his thinking.
In the Upanishads - an ancient source of higher knowledge - it is said that a person is what he thinks about, that is, the quality of thinking creates a person. Therefore, it is necessary to educate your mind, control your thoughts, get rid of petty, vain, as well as evil, selfish, envious, gloomy and dark thoughts.
Thought, as the strongest form of energy, is a magnet and attracts similar thoughts to itself.
Low thoughts attract to themselves other people's similar thoughts, enveloping a person in ugly thought forms. And, on the contrary, noble, sublime thoughts attract the highest beautiful energies, purifying and elevating a person, transforming his whole nature and elevating his soul to merge with the higher “I”.
Not only earthly destiny, but also the posthumous existence of a person in the Astral and Mental Worlds depends on the quality of thinking, on spiritual aspirations.
The purer and kinder, more disinterested aspirations, the more beautiful spheres await a person in the Subtle Worlds.
Base, unkind, gloomy thoughts keep a person in the lower layers of the Astral World, where there is darkness and darkness and stench, for all human garbage resides there. And it is very difficult, and for many it is impossible, to rise from the lower spheres to the higher, because for this it is necessary to purify, get rid of all passions and desires.
A person, having got rid of all evil already during his earthly life, like an arrow flies through all the lower spheres during the transition to the Other World, without even realizing them, and falls into his related sphere, corresponding to his inner world.
When passing into the Mental World, the Fiery World, for thought is fire, a person throws off the astral body along with the lower Manas, as before he threw off the physical body as unnecessary, and passes, cleansed of all earthly evil, to that plane or subplane of this world , to which it corresponds in terms of the level of thinking and consciousness.
There he is in joy and bliss, resting from earthly problems and suffering, accumulating strength for the next incarnation. This is the paradise of the Christian religion or the Devachan of the Eastern mystical Teachings.
The duration of one's stay in this world depends on one's own merits. The more good and useful he did, the longer his stay in Devachan.
With a new incarnation, on the way to Earth, a person again collects all his good and negative energy, dropped during the transition to the Fiery World, on the basis of which his Karma and his astral, and then physical bodies are formed.
What we sowed in the previous earthly life, we reap in the next incarnation. It is from the developments in the previous incarnation that our fate and our health in the new incarnation depend. Sow a storm, reap a hurricane.
The Fifth Principle is the Higher Manas.
The Higher Manas is the Higher Mind, the Thinker.
The Higher Manas can be imagined as a human soul containing pure reason without an admixture of a passionate principle, which includes all the evil inclinations and human vices.
The Higher Manas contains all the positive accumulations of previous incarnations throughout the evolution of man. This higher Principle has its own body, which in Theosophy is called "corps causal" - the causal or karmic body. This body is such a subtle energy substance that it is not possible to describe it.
The Higher Manas or the Thinker is located in very remote, higher spheres from the physical world and therefore cannot directly influence his physical body.
In order to be able to influence the physical conductor, the Thinker separates a part of his essence, which can be represented as a beam. This Ray of higher Manas is clothed in the astral matter of the astral body, penetrates the entire nervous system of the physical body and becomes its thinking principle. This part of the higher Manas acts through vibrations on the physical brain and governs thought processes.
The lower Manas is a conductor, a connecting link between the earthly man and his higher immortal essence. The lower Manas in imperfect people is often controlled by the lower passionate astral principle. There are frequent cases when the connection between the lower Manas and the higher Manas weakens so much that it breaks, and then this person, his animal soul, his personality, loses immortality.
But by tireless spiritual work it is possible to purify and elevate the lower nature of man to such an extent that it merges into one with his higher principles, and then the man becomes truly immortal.
The Sixth Principle is Buddhi.
Buddhi is the spirit soul, as opposed to the animal soul, which consists of the four lower principles.
“Buddhi is an individualized particle of the World Soul, the Fiery Substance.” (Letters to E.I., Roerich, 11.06.1935)
Buddhi is the conductor for Atma - the Divine spark, which is given to every person. Each person is given this Higher Divine principle, only each one manages this priceless gift in his own way.
The seventh principle is Atma.
“The Seventh Principle is only the eternal life force, poured throughout the Cosmos” (Letter to E. I. Roerich, 06/30/1934)
Atma is the Divine, inexpressible principle. This is a spark of the great Cosmic Fire - this is our Holy Spirit.
The Bible says, "God is a consuming fire." (Chapter 4, Article 24). And now the Spark of this sacred Fire is the Atma of man. Atma and Buudhi do not have consciousness on the plane of the manifested Cosmos. These two higher Principles acquire consciousness only through their vehicle, the Higher Manas.
The fifth principle - the Highest Manas, spiritualized by the sixth Principle - Buddhi, and sanctified by the Divine Spark of Atma - the seventh Principle, constitute the highest immortal triad of man.
Immortal Ego, Individuality, which throughout the entire human evolution strings only successful earthly experiences on its endless thread, absorbing all the best that man has achieved on Earth. An unsuccessfully, mediocrely lived earthly life is not needed by our higher triad, and therefore such a page is torn out of the Book of Life.
Man incarnates on Earth for evolution. It is impossible to become a perfect person in one earthly life, and therefore a person incarnates many times, according to the Law of Reincarnation and the Law of Karma.
According to yogic ideas and scientific proof of the Institute of the Brain existing in Moscow, a person consists of seven bodies of different vibration frequencies, different densities (degrees of materiality). These bodies, as it were, enter into each other and, due to the difference in vibration frequencies, exist in different planes of existence. These are the following bodies: the first body is physical, the second is ethereal, the third is astral (the body of desire), the fourth is mental (the body of thought), the fifth, sixth and seventh bodies refer directly to our higher "I" Existing names of energy bodies in any of the known traditions are purely arbitrary. Therefore, for convenience and ease of understanding, let's call the "etheric body" the first energy body, the "astral" - the second, the "mental" - the third, and so on.
Human energy bodies :
Physical(biological envelope)
Essential(vital)
astral(emotional)
mental(body of thought)
Causal(karmic)
Buddhic(intuitive, past lives)
Atmic(atma)
Physical body is the basis on which the seven main subtle energy bodies are located.
etheric body - an exact copy of the physical body. It is emitted from the physical body at a distance of 1 to 4 cm. It represents energy flows of the type of electronic waves from the cells and organs of the physical body. Beginning with the prenatal period of the human body and ending with his death, the etheric body is the builder and restorer of the physical body. A good etheric body excludes diseases, makes a person hardy and efficient. All subtle bodies take the energy of the etheric body.
astral body (emotional body-emotions, feelings, desires) has a more subtle structure than the ethereal. Consists of streams and whirlwinds of subtle substance. It is transparent and dyed in various colors. Can be seen as well as fixed (photo). It protrudes several tens of centimeters from the physical body, surrounding it in the form of an aura. The color scheme changes depending on the state of all functions and systems of the physical body. Important qualities of the astral body are cheerfulness, activity, the ability to be cheerful.
mental body (thought body, intellect). It has an egg-shaped form that permeates all bodies and forms a luminous aura. The dimensions of the mental body can reach several meters. Mental energy generates a thought in the human brain. All the memories and knowledge we have acquired are in this field. A strong mental body gives endurance during mental work, thought creativity, the amount and total amount of knowledge, memory and the ability to control oneself.
Karmic body (causal, the body of Causes). Contains the memory of all past lives. It is the master of the “I” (our ego), since it contains the causes of everything manifested in lower subtle bodies, all subconscious traces of past lives that determine our individual destiny are preserved. An important property of the karmic body is the control of all functions of the human body. All actions of a person, his emotions, the experience of knowing Good and Evil, each of his thoughts are stored in the karmic body, which is the experience of the incarnation of the Soul of a person, which manifests itself in the conditions of his current life on Earth. The intuitive body (buddhic body) is an area and part of a person that contains the Spiritual Mind, all selfless actions, love, compassion. It is completely devoid of any negative properties. The intuitive body gives a person inspiration. A person's intuition depends on the degree of development of this body. It knows both the past and the present.
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Atmic body - Human spirit, divine body. The atmic body dissolves in the cosmic consciousness and carries it within itself. Thanks to the most subtle energy, it can penetrate everywhere and be interconnected with other worlds. (I believe that it is this body that allows us to be in dreams in the form of subtle matter, to interact with other dimensions and worlds).
Do you know that absolutely all diseases of the physical body begin from the subtle plane (human subtle bodies)? In our enlightened age, everyone knows that a person consists of SEVEN bodies. At the physical level, diseases occur when energy-informational disturbances occur in subtle bodies
Do you know that absolutely all diseases of the physical body begin from the subtle plane (human subtle bodies)?
In our enlightened age, everyone knows that a person consists of SEVEN bodies (see figure). At the physical level, diseases arise when energy-informational disturbances occur in subtle bodies - the deformation of these bodies. This article is about the causes of deformations, and about methods for their elimination.
Have you ever wondered why some children are healthy at birth, while others are doomed to illness from the first days of life?
Healthy, first of all, desired children. If, for some reason, the child's parents doubt whether they need this child or not, this is the first subconscious stress for the unborn baby, that is, an energy-information blow that remains at a subtle level in the form of a deformation of the energy shell.
Then, if the delivery was difficult, the baby gets the next hit. Of course, he cannot remember these blows, but they have already left their mark, and with each new blow, their negative effect on the little person accumulates.
Weaning, teething, nursery, kindergarten, family relationships, fear, trauma, early learning difficulties, peer relationships, emotional distress, and more are subconscious stresses to varying degrees. Genus problems - the whole range of genetic diseases on the paternal and maternal lines, become an aggravating circumstance for human health.
The time of puberty is a difficult period during which the body goes through a series of biological changes, and for many this period is associated with receiving a large number of subconscious stresses - energy-information strikes. As noted by the prominent physiologist P.K. Anokhin, “it is enough for emotional excitement to arise, as immediately the whole organism with all its systems and peripheral organs becomes involved in emotional expression.”
During puberty, the risk of a variety of diseases increases - from hormonal disorders to diabetes and cancer.
The process of age development of the organism is closely related to the social and other conditions of the external environment in which a person lives. And, even if this environment is safe, it is impossible to avoid more and more blows, and hence deformations of the energy shells.
By a certain point in a person's life, a huge amount of energy-informational disturbances can accumulate on the subtle plane, which result in certain diseases, since any stable deformation of the energy shell leads to functional disorders of the body.
And now let's analyze what problems a person has when thin bodies are deformed, that is, with energy-informational disturbances.
ethereal body
Responsible for vitality, endurance, activity, health and ability to exist in the material world.
With deformation - autism, anorexia, bulimia, infectious diseases, lowered immunity, diabetes mellitus, diseases of the urinary tract, legs and mental disorders.
astral body
Responsible for marriage, family, sensitivity, cheerfulness, gratitude, sexuality.
With deformation - alcoholism, drug addiction, homosexuality, lesbianism, infertility, impotence, frigidity, diseases of the genitourinary system.
MENTAL BODY
Responsible for the ability to abstractly think, analyze, systematize, manage, be responsible, develop intellectually.
With deformation - a violation of memory, speech, control of motor activity, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, loss of vision.
CAUSAL BODY
Responsible for the ability to love, respect, compassion, accept, build partnerships.
With deformation, AIDS, hepatitis C, depression, melancholy, unwillingness to live, chronic fatigue syndrome, diseases of the cardiovascular system, allergies, leukemia, disease of the mammary glands originate.
BUDDHICK BODY
Responsible for the ability to create, express yourself creatively, go your own way, be free, not depend on anyone; developed self-knowledge and self-observation.
When deformed, a person feels inferior, immersed in himself, closed, goes into an illusory world, experiences severe depression, engages in self-discipline; diseases of the central nervous system, respiratory tract, violation of the vocal apparatus.
ATMIC BODY
Responsible for beyond abilities, harmony, peace, acceptance of all aspects of life in oneself and others,
With deformation, confusion occurs, hallucinations, mental disorders, headaches, blurred vision and hearing, dementia.
Negative endogenous (developing inside) and exogenous (influencing from outside) influences, in turn, lead to DNA mutations, which, at the level of genetic information, is transmitted to descendants.
A beautiful video about chakras and energy flows.
Product video 7 human bodies. Anatomy of dense and thin bodies.
The animation shows the movement of energy, the location of the chakras and energy flows.
Below is information from Osho, about 7 human bodies, with a detailed description.
7 human bodies esotericists have varying degrees of materiality. Like a cocoon, subtle bodies wrap around the visible, the physical. A few centimeters above the human skin is the ethereal body that connects the physical and astral bodies. Above the astral body is the mental body. The next trinity is causal, buddhial and atmanic. Now let's look at them in more detail and in order.
So, here they are - our legs and arms, ears, hair and eyes. Our physical body. It is intended for activity in the physical world. Shows up with actions. Its beauty or, on the contrary, “ugliness”, is determined, among other things, by our behavior in past lives. His illnesses are directly related to permanent or temporary defects in the more highly organized "subtle" bodies. An important conclusion follows from this: a serious bodily disease will not succumb to simple symptomatic treatment, because the root cause of the "karmic" disease is beyond the reach of traditional medicine.
The etheric body is a copy of the physical body and serves to maintain its form. It transmits to the physical impulses of neighboring, more highly organized bodies: astral and mental. Its color is defined by some esotericists as a faintly luminous purple. Energy, prana, descends to the physical body through the etheric. With age, the ability of the etheric body to conduct energy weakens, and the physical body undergoes changes from this, called aging.
The etheric body is capable of fixing some devices: a well-known experiment, when a torn leaf of a plant can be seen whole with their help, according to some researchers, confirms the existence of an invisible etheric body in every living being.
The astral body is the body of emotions and desires. Those of the psychics who “see the aura” are considering the astral body of a person. "Seers" claim that the astral body exceeds the physical body by several tens of centimeters. Its color is different in its different departments. In addition, the color of the astral body depends on the intensity and "quality" of the emotions and desires produced by a person, on his state of mind at any given moment. Mental activity has a yellowish color, "life force" - red.
The human mental body is "responsible" for reasonable behavior and socialization. Like all of the above, it is not eternal. After death, a person discards these bodies, which have become unnecessary. What is left for him? What remains is the causal, the buddhial, and the atmanic, which together form the eternal part of man.
The causal body stores the results of the life experience of all previous incarnations of each particular individual. It is a repository of mental and moral qualities; this is exactly the material with which karma “works”. Our life experience in every possible way serves to strengthen and develop (or, conversely, degrade) the causal body. It is it that stores our “baggage”, which we will carry as a result of this incarnation.
The buddhial body is the body of superconsciousness, intuition, divine insight. The Atmanic body, on the other hand, is like a precious core wrapped in many layers - a particle of the Absolute in each of us, where the mission is encrypted - that for which we were created.
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The multidimensional system of human bodies, both field and material, has been created for many millions of years. First Monads arose - field (wave) matrices, perfect particles of the Absolute. Then the Monads clothed themselves with a Buddhial body, also a field body - this body is intended to express the principle of Being. That is, if the Monads are all the same, absolutely identical, then the Buddhial body already has differences, this is the first body of the personality. The buddhial body does not have the characteristics of polarity, it does not carry either good or evil, this body has a vibration code, this is the energy matrix of the individual, his vibrational characteristic. The buddhial body is also perfect, it determines the inclinations of the personality, its inclinations, talents, talents. Thus, talents are given to absolutely every person. The buddhial body is formed randomly, but its energy parameters are constant.
The third body of a person is also field, it is Causal*, causal, karmic body (“causal” - causal). The causal body has a variable energy characteristic, its parameters change depending on the energies with which the person interacts, it directly depends on the actions of the person. The vibrational parameters of the Causal body are not constant, they are measured by the sum of the deeds of the personality both during the incarnation on various material Planes (Mental, Astral, Physical), and outside the incarnation, in the non-material, field Worlds (the so-called "Heavens", where Gods, Heavenly Angels live , Ascended Masters).
Three Higher, field, non-material bodies make up a single "Great Triad", "Higher Self", Soul, the basis of personality. The Soul can evolve or degrade by changing the amount of vibration of the Causal body. The soul exists until the end of Manvatara (the existence of the Universe), or until it unites with the Creator, returns to the bosom of the Absolute. This process takes place constantly, that is, the Souls that have reached the highest level of vibrations in the process of evolution return to the Creator (“fall into Nirvana”). Other Souls that have not completed evolution or have degraded exist until the end of Manvatara.
Entering the Material Worlds, the Soul is clothed in the Mental body, the body of thought. This does not mean that there is no thought process in the field Worlds, it is simply that it is very difficult for you, incarnated people, to explain the difference between Consciousness and intellect. Consciousness is a wave, non-material process, and intelligence, thinking is a material process, the movement of subtle mental matter, its fluctuations, the construction of forms, their interaction. The mental plane is inhabited by Spiritual Angels, disembodied people, Teachers, Egregors, Thought forms, Ideas. The mental body of any person lives in this World, being both a part of a living being and a part of the Mental World. The thought process takes place in the mental body. The brain is just a "biocomputer" - an organ for "digesting" thoughts, carrying out the connection between the Mental and physical bodies, its main function is to control the physical body. Many cases have been recorded in history when a person was in clear consciousness until the end of his life, having a completely destroyed brain, which was revealed during an autopsy, since the physical body also has other channels of communication with the mental body through the etheric body and chakras.
The next material body is the Astral, the body of desires, emotions. The personality is clothed in it, entering into life on the Astral plane. This Plan is the most populated in the Universe. Almost all planets and even stars are inhabited on this Plan. In the Astral plane there are also the so-called "Paradise", "Hell", and "Purgatory", these are just different subplanes of the Astral world. Numerous intelligent beings live there - people, spirits, human angels, essences, elementals, devas, the so-called "demons", "devils" and other characters. Astral matter is very plastic and therefore the Astral body can be built by willpower. An inhabitant of the Astral world can build a palace, simply by “inventing” it, planting a beautiful garden. But the maintenance of artificially created forms requires a constant supply of energy, and as soon as it stops, the object takes its "natural" form. The true image of the inhabitant of the Astral world is formed on the basis of the energy characteristics of his Soul. Good is beautiful, and Evil is ugly. Evil can dress up in beautiful masks, but this requires a lot of energy and cannot last long. The astral body of an embodied person, as a rule, has a true appearance. People with developed astral "vision" "see", feel, intuitively feel the true essence of a person.
Now let's talk about the two most "dense" human bodies - Etheric and Physical. These bodies are necessary for life in the Physical world. This plan is the most dense, "heavy", sparsely populated. During pregnancy, both bodies of the unborn child are formed in the mother's body, and the etheric body can begin to form even before the conception of the physical body. The etheric body is the "energy matrix" of the physical body, which is built on the basis of this matrix, the etheric body is always a perfect, ideal model and outstrips the child's physical body in its development. The etheric body is exactly what distinguishes the "living" from the "non-living". The etheric body has people, animals, plants, microorganisms, crystals, all these are living beings. The ethereal body has ice, water, which has retained its crystalline structure, is also “alive”, while “dead”, non-crystalline water does not have an ethereal body.
Everything around is filled with ethereal energy (prana, life force), but the “body” is that which has a form, an ordered structure. The ethereal energy scattered in space serves as a building material, "food" for the etheric bodies. A drop of boiled water is inanimate, its ethereal energy has no form, but, having become a snowflake, having acquired a crystalline structure, it “comes to life”. Life originates where the ethereal energy acquires a structure, a form. What can serve as an initiating factor? Firstly, Consciousness, and secondly, some physical processes, for example, temperature changes (crystallization of water during cooling or crystallization from a melt), pressure (transformation of graphite into diamond), and so on. The main life-giving factor is the Consciousness of the Absolute. That is, as it is told in the Bible, God populated the earth with plants and animals, this is an allegorical interpretation of a complex and lengthy process, but that is exactly how it was. Darwin is also right, because the evolutionary process is the Law of God in action. If a living being is injured (amputation of a limb, docking of a puppy's tail, pruning of a tree, cutting of a crystal), the etheric body retains its perfect form for a long time. An amputated leg “hurts” a disabled person, a dog waves its non-existent tail, a tree shakes its cut branches.
At the time of death of a person, the complex of seven bodies is divided, the physical and etheric bodies remain on the Physical Plane, and the remaining five bodies, of which the astral body remains the outermost, pass to the Astral Plane. The etheric body, which during life is closely connected with the physical body, retains this connection for about 3 more days. Then it gradually separates from the physical body, and for some time, up to 9 days, is next to it. Then, within a period of up to the 40th day, it dissolves into space. There are exceptional cases when the ethereal body does not dissolve, but retains its form due to an external influx of energy, and then a ghost (etheric variety) appears. Such a ghost, as a rule, is tied to a specific place - a cemetery, a castle, a forest, a crossroads. The source of energy that feeds such a ghost can be both the consciousness of a rational being and energy flows on the ground. But these are quite rare and exceptional cases. The physical body, after it leaves the ethereal body, is irreversibly destroyed, decomposed into chemical elements. Modern medicine cannot revive a person after the so-called "brain death", but in history there are cases of "miraculous resurrection" and at a later date. If the etheric body has not had time to leave the physical body, then even the processes of decomposition are reversible. An important question: will the same five bodies return to this shell? This is a separate big topic. You know about the existence of "zombies", about people who completely lost their memory, about those who, after some traumatic situation, underwent a personality change, lost interest in their relatives, but this is a separate conversation, and it is ahead.
*). Some esoteric schools call the Third body Casual (from "kasus" - an accident). This is not an entirely accurate designation, because the energy parameters of the Third Body are formed mainly not by chance, but by conscious acts of the individual.
The seven bodies of man are the essence of his personality.
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HUMAN ENERGY BODIES
Matter types
The entire substance of the universe consists of seven types of matter, of types of atams. They are also called the seven worlds, or planes of nature.
These are the worlds:
1. - the highest, or subtlest, - the divine plan.
2. - the monadic plane, it is in it that human personalities - monads - are born and live.
3. - the atmic plane, the highest spirit of man, Atma, operates in it.
4. - buddhic, or the world of intuition, in which all the highest insights of a person pass.
5. - the monasic, intellectual, or mental plane, it is from the matter of this plane that the human mind consists.
6. - the astral plane, the world of human emotions and passions.
7. - the physical world, part of which we can perceive with our senses.
In turn, each of these seven worlds consists of seven levels, that is, there are forty-nine levels of matter in total.
physical world
Modern science knows three states of matter - solid, liquid, gaseous. All these three types of matter belong to the lowest, the seventh physical world.
The physical world, like other worlds, consists of seven levels of matter (arranged in order of decreasing density):
1. Solid.
2. Liquid substance.
3. Gaseous.
4. Essential substance.
5. Super ether substance.
6. Subatomic matter.
7. Atomic matter.
Where exactly are these plans? -Everywhere. All seven worlds consist of seven types of atoms. There are so large distances between atoms that all seven types of matter can easily fit in any part of space without interfering with each other.
A classic example: a sponge is a solid. But if you wet it, then inside the sponge there will be a liquid substance - water. There are air bubbles inside the water.
That is, outwardly the sponge has not changed, but in the same area of space there are both solid, liquid, and gaseous substances at the same time.
The structure of man.
1.Physical body of a person is well enough studied and researched - these are bones, muscles, internal organs, skin, lungs, blood, etc. It consists of three types of matter - solid, liquid, gaseous.
Often the physical body is identified with the person himself. This is not true, because the hundred physical body is only a part of a person.
2. Ethereal double human being consists of ethereal matter, in which there are vortex centers of vital force.
Outwardly, it looks like a faintly luminous cloud in the form of a gray-violet human figure. The etheric body protrudes beyond the boundaries of the physical body by about 1-2 cm.
The etheric double can be separated from the physical body, but this is always accompanied by danger to the person. When the ethereal body completely and forever leaves the physical body, the physical body, having lost all vitality, seems to “die”.
The etheric body, separated from the physical body, becomes helpless and vulnerable to various extraneous beings. In an ordinary healthy person, such a separation of bodies is very difficult. With the use of anesthesia, painkillers, you can achieve the separation of the ethereal double.
In seriously ill people, the etheric double can separate on its own. In this case, the physical body becomes insensible.
After the death of a person, the etheric body can be located near the physical body. Sometimes some living people can see the ethereal double of a deceased person, mistaking him for a ghost or ghost.
This explains the numerous legends about ghosts walking in cemeteries or in those places where a murder has been committed. If a person loved his body and himself during his lifetime, for three days his ethereal body continues to be near the body, but there are only a few such people. Usually the etheric body hurries to visit dear people who were far from it, and say goodbye to them.
3. Astral body of a person is responsible for the emotions, passions and desires of a person.
If a person has passions, desires, emotions are base and animal, then the matter of the astral body is rough and its color is dark and unattractive - brown, dark red and dirty green tones predominate in it.
The purity of the astral body largely depends on the frequency of the physical body. If a person uses drugs, alcohol, tobacco or meat, then he attracts impure astral energy to himself.
And vice versa, if a person takes care of his health and refuses to use negative products, then his aura brightens and cleanses.
During sleep, the astral body separates from the physical body along with the higher principles of man. During sleep, in cultured and highly cultured people, the consciousness continues to be awake and develop.
Amazing things can happen in the astral world - a person can communicate with long-dead people, acquaintances and relatives, conduct meaningful conversations with them. Waking up after this, a person sometimes cannot immediately understand that everything that happened to him was not in a dream, but in reality.
In dreams, the world of living people intersects with the world of the dead.
A well-developed astral body is able to anticipate, sense other invisible beings, experience, cognize the world during sleep.
Conversely, people with a low level of development of the astral body almost never remember their dreams. It seems to them that they do not see any dreams at all.
With the help of training, one can achieve that in his dreams a person will be able to act in full consciousness. He can have meaningful conversations with the characters of his dreams, receive valuable and useful information from them, learn, find answers to many questions, see pictures from the future and the present.
A striking example to illustrate these possibilities is the well-known story of how the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev saw in a dream the famous table of periodic elements, later named after him.
After death, a person lives for some time in the astral world in the same astral body as during life. The more he learned to control his astral body during life, the easier it will be for him to manage it after death.
4. Mental body consists of even finer matter than the astral. The mental body is capable of responding with vibrations to every change in our thought.
Each change of consciousness can cause a vibration in the mental body, which is then transmitted to the astral body, and the latter transmits it to the physical brain, which in turn gives commands to the physical body - arms, legs, etc.
That is, a thought is not born in the brain, as it was previously thought, a thought is born in the mental body, and only then it enters the physical brain along the chain.
The mental body, just like the astral one, consists in different people of different matter - in cultured, highly developed individuals it consists of fine matter, in primitive people it consists of coarser matter.
In developed people, the mental body is constantly in motion and has clearly defined boundaries. In primitive people the mental body is like a cloud with indistinct, fuzzy edges.
The mental body continues to be awake even during sleep, so a person is able to think during sleep.
The mental body can be developed and perfected through study, prayer and meditation. A person with a good mental body is capable of high emotions and has clear, precise thinking.
Evil thoughts, on the contrary, can spoil the mental body beyond recognition, so that later it will be difficult to cure it and return it to its original form.
After death, a person continues to live in the mental body for quite a long time, therefore, during earthly life, one should try to develop and strengthen the mental body as best as possible.
MORTAL AND IMMORTAL HUMAN BODIES
The first four bodies of a person - physical, ethereal, astral, mental - are mortal, that is, after a certain period of time, they all disintegrate without a trace.
But the next three bodies - intellectual, spiritual and higher spiritual - are immortal.
5. Intelligent body- the higher mind, capable of abstractions. A person with the help of this mind is able to know the truth by intuition, and not by reasoning.
The intellectual body stores all the experience of a person, accumulated by him on the mental, astral and physical levels.
The intellectual body is like a luminous egg-shaped cloud extending about half a meter from the surface of the physical body.
In a primitive, wild man, the intellectual body looks like a colorless bubble of very small dimensions, barely protruding beyond the limits of the physical body.
In a highly developed individual, it looks like a huge luminous ball, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, emitting rays of love and care in all directions. The size of the aura in this case can reach several kilometers. The Buddha's intellectual body stretched around for five kilometers.
The intelligent body colors have the following meanings:
pale pink - selfless love;
yellow - intelligence;
green - compassion;
blue - piety and deep devotion;
lilac - high spirituality.
The negative qualities of a person, such as pride and irritability, do not affect the intellectual body in any way, because all the vices of a person are concentrated on lower levels - mental and astral.
6. Spiritual body(Buddhic) belongs to the world of pure, spiritual wisdom, knowledge and love, combined into one whole. It feeds on all lofty, loving aspirations, pure compassion and all-encompassing tenderness.
7. Higher spiritual body(atmic) consists of the finest matter, the shell of the spirit. In this higher body, the results of all experiences accumulated throughout eternity are collected.
All three immortal bodies merge into one spiritual body, forming, as it were, a bright garment for a perfect person.
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Stages of development of subtle bodies
Man is made up of seven bodies. The first is the well-known physical body. The second is the etheric body; the third, different from the second, is the astral body. The fourth, distinct from the third, is the mental or psychic body; the fifth, again different from the fourth, is the spiritual body. The sixth, different from the fifth, body is called cosmic. The seventh and last is called nirvana sharir, or nirvana body, the incorporeal body. A little information about these seven bodies will help you understand Kundalini more fully.
In the first seven years of life, only the sthul sharir, the physical body, is formed. The rest of the bodies remain only seeds. They are endowed with the potential for growth, but dormant early in life. Therefore, the first seven years are the years of limitations. During these years there is no growth of intellect, feelings or desires. All this time only the physical body develops. Some people never grow beyond this age, they get stuck at the seven-year-old level and remain nothing more than animals. Animals develop only physical bodies, all the rest remain intact in them.
In the next seven years - from seven to fourteen - the bhava sharira, or etheric body, develops. These are seven years of emotional growth of the personality. That is why it is at the age of fourteen that sexual maturity sets in, carrying with it the strongest of all feelings. And some people stop there. Their physical body continues to grow, but they get stuck in the first two bodies.
In the next seven-year period, from fourteen to twenty-one, the sukshma sharira, or astral body, appears. And if emotions and feelings develop in the second body, then mind, thinking and intellect develop in the third. Therefore, not a single court of the world holds children under the age of seven accountable for their actions, because the baby still has only a physical body. In this sense, we treat the child in the same way as an animal, and we cannot hold him responsible. Even if he commits a crime, we believe that it is committed under someone else's direction, that the real culprit is someone else.
With the development of the second body, man reaches maturity. But that's just puberty. Here the work of nature ends, and therefore nature renders full assistance to man only up to this stage. But at this stage, a person does not yet become a person in the full sense of the word. The third body, with which the mind, thinking and intellect develop, is given to us by education, civilization and culture. Therefore, we get the right to vote at the age of twenty-one. This practice prevails in the world, but now in many countries the issue of granting this right to eighteen-year-olds is being discussed. This is natural, because with the evolution of man, the usual seven-year period for the development of each of the bodies is getting shorter and shorter.
All over the world, girls reach puberty between the ages of thirteen and fourteen. But in the last thirty years, this age has become less and less. Even ten-eleven-year-old girls reach puberty. The lowering of the voting age to eighteen years is an indication that many people began to complete the work of twenty-one years in eighteen. However, in the usual case, the growth of the three bodies still takes twenty-one years, and most people do not develop further. With the formation of the third body, their growth stops, and they no longer cultivate for the rest of their lives.
What I call the psyche is the fourth body or manas sharira. This body has its own wonderful experiences. A person with an undeveloped intellect cannot be interested in and enjoy, for example, mathematics. There is a special charm in mathematics, and only Einstein can immerse himself in it, like a musician in sounds or an artist in colors. For Einstein, mathematics was not work, but play, but in order to turn mathematics into a game, the intellect must reach the pinnacle of its development.
With the development of each body, endless possibilities open up before us. One whose etheric body has not been formed, who has stopped after seven years of development, has no other interests in life than eating and drinking. Therefore, the culture of civilizations, where most people develop only to the level of the first body, is mixed exclusively on sweet roots. The culture of civilizations where most people are stuck on the second body is purely sex oriented. Their outstanding personalities, literature, music, their films and books, their poetry and painting, even their houses and cars, are all centered on sexual relations; all these things are thoroughly saturated with sex, sexuality.
In a civilization where the third body is fully developed, people are intelligent and thoughtful. When the development of the third body becomes especially important for society, there are many intellectual revolutions. This is the caliber of people that prevailed during the time of Buddha and Mahavira in Bihar*. That is why, in the small province of Bihar, eight people were born, comparable in scale to the Buddha and Mahavira. Lived in those days and thousands of other people overshadowed by genius. The same situation developed in Greece in the times of Socrates and Plato and in China in the times of Lao Tzu and Confucius. And it is especially surprising that the time of life of all these amazing people falls on some five hundred years. In these half millennia, the development of the third body of man reached its peak. Usually a person is on the third body and stops. Most of us don't develop beyond the age of twenty-one.
* Bihar is a state in India with its capital at Pant, located in the Ganges valley, to the west of Bangladesh. - Approx. transl.
With the fourth body one has a very unusual experience. Hypnosis, telepathy, clairvoyance are the potentialities of the fourth body. People can communicate with each other, bypassing space and time. They can, without asking, read the thoughts of others or project their own. Sow ideas in other people's minds without any outside help. A person is able to travel out of the body, make astral projections and study himself from the outside, from outside the physical body.
The fourth body is endowed with great potential, but we do not try to fully develop it, because this path is very risky and deceptive. The more subtle world we enter, the more likely we are to be deceived. First of all, it is difficult to find out whether a person has really left his body. Whether it seemed to him that he left him, or whether he really did it, - in both cases, he himself remains the only witness. So it's easy to get confused here.
On the other side of the fourth body the world is subjective, but on this side it is objective. When I hold a rupee in my fingers, I, you, fifty others can see it. This is a common reality in which we all participate, and it is easy to find out whether I have a rupee in my fingers or not. But you are not my companion in the realm of my thoughts, but I am yours in the realm of yours. Here begins the personal world with all its dangers, here our external rules and justifications lose weight. So, from the fourth body, a truly deceptive world begins. And everything that is deceptive in the three previous worlds is just a trifle.
The greatest danger is that the deceiver is not necessarily aware of the fact that he is deceiving. He can, without knowing it, deceive others and himself. Everything on this level is so subtle, impermanent and personal that a person has no way of verifying the reality of his experience. Therefore, he is not able to say for sure whether he is just imagining something or whether this is really happening to him.
That is why we have always tried to save mankind from this fourth body by cursing and executing those who used it. In Europe, hundreds of women were branded and burned as witches at one time - just because they used the possibilities of the fourth body. Hundreds of Tantrics were killed in India for working with the same body. They were aware of some secrets that seemed dangerous to others. They knew what was going on in your mind; never once entering your house, they knew where you had it. Traveling in the realm of the fourth body was considered a "black" art all over the world, for one can never foresee what will happen at the next step. We have always tried our best to keep people from taking any steps beyond the third body: the fourth seemed too dangerous to us.
Yes, there are dangers waiting for a person, but with them amazing achievements. Therefore, it was necessary not to stop, but to explore. Perhaps then we would have found ways to test the reality of our experience. Now we have new scientific tools, and human abilities to comprehend have increased. So, perhaps some future discoveries will help us find the right paths, as it has happened more than once in science.
Do animals dream? How can you know if the animals don't talk? We know that we dream because we get up in the morning and tell each other about what we dreamed about. Recently, after a huge and persistent effort, a way has been found. The answer came from a man who had worked with monkeys for many years; and it is worth understanding the methods of its work. He was showing the monkeys a movie. As soon as the film began, the experimental animal was shocked. A button was provided on the spectator seat, and the monkey was taught to press it when it sensed a shock. So, every day she was put on the seat and with the beginning of the film, the current was applied. The monkey immediately pressed the button and turned it off.
This went on for some days; then the monkey was euthanized on the same seat. Now, with the beginning of the dream, the monkey must have felt uncomfortable, because for him the film on the screen and the film in the dream are one and the same. She immediately pressed the button. She pressed the button again and again, and this proved that the monkey was dreaming. So man managed to penetrate into the inner world of animal dreams.
Meditators have also learned to check the reality of the events of the fourth body from the outside, they can distinguish true experience from false. From the fact that the experience of Kundalini in the fourth body is psychic, it does not follow that it is false. There are true mental states and false mental states. Therefore, when I speak of Kundalini as a psychic experience, this does not mean that it is necessarily false. Psychic experience can be both false and true.
At night you see a dream, and this dream is a fact, because it was. But when you wake up in the morning, you can remember some dream that you didn’t actually have, and claim that you dreamed it. Then it is a false dream. A person may wake up in the morning and say that he never dreams. Many people really believe that they do not see them. But they dream, they dream all night, it's scientifically proven. However, in the morning they insist that they have never seen anything like it. So their words are absolutely false, although they don't realize it. In fact, they simply do not remember their dreams. The opposite also happens... you remember dreams you didn't have. This is also false.
Dreams are not false, they are a special reality. But dreams are real and not real. Real dreams are those that were actually dreamed. The problem is that when you wake up, you cannot retell your dream exactly. Therefore, in the old days, people who could retell them clearly and in detail were highly respected. It is very difficult to accurately retell the dream. You see a dream in one sequence, and remember - in reverse. It's like a movie. The plot in the film that we are watching unfolds from the beginning of the tape. It is the same in a dream: while we sleep, the coil of the drama of the dream turns in one direction, and when we wake up, it begins to turn in the other, so at first we remember the very end and then we remember everything in reverse order. And the first thing we dreamed about is remembered last. It's like if someone tried to read the book from the wrong end, the reversed words would create exactly the same chaos. So remembering dreams and retelling them correctly is a great art. Usually, when we remember dreams, we recall events that we never dreamed of. We lose a significant part of sleep immediately, and a little later - everything else.
Dreams are the events of the fourth body, and its potential is enormous. All the siddhis or supernatural powers mentioned in yoga are found in this body. Yoga tirelessly warns the meditator not to chase the siddhis. This distracts the seeker from the path. No psychic abilities have spiritual value.
So, when I spoke about the psychic nature of Kundalini, I meant that it is a phenomenon of the fourth body. Therefore, physiologists cannot detect Kundalini in the human body. It is only natural that they deny the existence of the Kundalini and the chakras and regard them as fabrications. These are the phenomena of the fourth body. The fourth body exists, but it is very subtle; it cannot be squeezed into the narrow framework of comprehension. Only the physical body can be squeezed into the frame. Nevertheless, there are correspondence points between the first and fourth bodies.
If we put together seven sheets of paper and pierce them all through with a pin, then even if the hole on the first sheet is smoothed over, it will still leave a mark corresponding to the holes in other sheets. And so, although there is no hole in the first sheet, there is a dot on it that exactly matches the holes in the other sheets, if you put them all together. Similarly, chakras, Kundalini and other phenomena do not belong to the first body, but there are points of correspondence in the first body. Therefore, denying their existence in our body, physiologists are not mistaken. Chakras and Kundalini are in other bodies, and in the physical body you can find only points of correspondence.
So, Kundalini is a phenomenon of the fourth body and has a psychic nature. And when I say that psychic phenomena are of two types - true and false - you must understand what I mean. These phenomena are false when they are generated by the imagination, since the imagination itself is only a property of the fourth body. Animals have no imagination, so they do not remember the past well and have no idea about the future. Animals do not know worries, for worries are always about the future. Animals often see death but cannot imagine that they themselves will die, and they have no fear of death. Many people are also not worried about the fear of death. Such people associate death exclusively with others, but not with themselves. The reason for this is that the power of imagination in their fourth body has not developed sufficiently to see into the future.
It turns out that imagination can also be true and false. True imagination means the ability to look into the future, to imagine what has not yet happened. But if you imagine something that cannot happen, then it is false imagination. The right use of the imagination is science; science is originally only imagination.
For thousands of years man has dreamed of flying. The people who dreamed about it must have had very strong imaginations. And if people never dreamed of flying, then the Wright brothers would not have been able to build their plane. They just turned the human passion for flying into something concrete. It took some time for this passion to take shape, then there were experiments, and finally the person still managed to take off.
For thousands of years, man has wanted to go to the moon. The people who dreamed about it had a very strong imagination. In the end, their fantasies came true... so they weren't on the wrong track. These fantasies followed the path of reality, which was discovered a little later. So, both the scientist and the madman use the imagination.
I say that science is imagination and madness is also imagination, but don't think they are the same thing. The madman imagines non-existent things that have nothing to do with the physical world. The scientist also imagines ... he imagines things that are most directly related to the physical world. And if they are not feasible now, then, quite possibly, they can be implemented in the future.
When working with the possibilities of the fourth body, there is always the possibility of going astray. Then we enter false worlds. Therefore, when going to this body, it is better not to have any expectations. The fourth body is the psychic. If, for example, I want to go down from the fourth floor to the first, I need to find an elevator or steps for this. But if I want to descend in my thoughts, then there is no need for these devices. I can go downstairs without getting up from my chair.
The danger of the world of imagination and thoughts lies in the fact that the only thing that is needed here is to imagine and think, and anyone can do it. Moreover, if someone enters this realm with preconceived ideas and expectations, then he immediately plunges into them completely, for he is very willingly assisted by the mind. He says, "Do you want to awaken the Kundalini? Good! She's rising... well, she's already risen." You will imagine how the Kundalini has risen, and the mind will encourage you in this false sensation, until finally you feel that the Kundalini is fully awakened, the chakras are activated.
However, there is an opportunity to check how real these experiences are ... the fact is that with the opening of each chakra, your personality changes significantly. You cannot imagine or invent these changes as they occur in the material world.
For example, with the awakening of the Kundalini you cannot take any intoxicating drink, that is out of the question. The mental body is very subtle, and alcohol affects it instantly. Therefore (perhaps this will surprise you) a woman, drinking alcohol, becomes much more dangerous than a man. And all because her mental body is thinner than a man's, and under the influence of alcohol she loses control over herself more easily. Therefore, certain rules have historically developed in society that protect women from this danger. This is one of the areas where women until recently did not try to achieve equality with men, although recently they have begun to strive for this as well. The day a woman asserts her equality in this area and tries to surpass men, she will do herself such harm as no man has ever done to her.
Your words about the experienced sensations cannot serve as confirmation of the awakening of the Kundalini in the fourth body, because, as I said, you can imagine this awakening and, accordingly, an imaginary flow of energy. Only your spiritual qualities and the changes in character that must accompany this process allow you to judge something. As soon as energy wakes up, changes will be indicated in you. That is why I always say that behavior is only an external indicator, and not an internal cause. This is the criterion of what is happening inside. Any effort will inevitably lead to certain results. When the energy wakes up, a person engaged in meditation can no longer use any intoxicating substances. If he abuses drugs or alcohol, then know that all his experiences are imaginary, because this is completely incompatible with true experience.
After the awakening of the Kundalini, the tendency to violence completely disappears. A person who meditates not only does not commit violence, he does not feel any violence within himself. The impulse to violence, the impulse to cause harm to others, can manifest itself only as long as the vital energy is dormant. The moment she wakes up, others are no longer different, and you no longer wish them harm. And then you do not have to suppress the violence within yourself, because you are simply not capable of it.
If you feel that you have to suppress the craving for violence, then know that the Kundalini has not yet awakened. If, having gained sight, you are still probing the road in front of you with a stick, then your eyes still do not see, and you can prove the opposite as much as you like - until you give up the stick, all these are just words. Whether an outside observer will come to the conclusion that you have gained sight depends on your actions. Your stick and your stumbling, unsteady gait prove that your eyes have not yet seen the light.
So, with awakening, your behavior will change radically, and all religious prescriptions - about non-violence, about refraining from lies and squabbles, about celibacy and constant vigilance - will become something simple and natural for you. Then you can be sure that your experience was true. It is a psychic experience, and yet a true one. Now you can move on. You can move forward if and only if you are on the right path. You cannot stop at the fourth body forever, because that is not the goal. There are other bodies, and they have to be passed.
As I have said, very few succeed in developing the fourth body. Therefore, there are miracle workers in the world. If everyone developed a fourth body, there would be no room for miracles. If, in a certain society, consisting of people whose development stopped at the second body, one person suddenly advanced a little further and learned to add and subtract, he, too, would be considered a miracle worker.
A thousand years ago, a person who predicted the date of a solar eclipse was known as a miracle worker and a great sage. Now everyone knows that even a machine can give such information. You just need to make a series of calculations, and for this you do not need an astronomer, or a prophet, or just a very learned person. A computer can give you information about millions of eclipses. He can even predict the day when the sun will cool down - for this is calculable. Using the data entered, the machine will divide the total energy of our luminary by the amount of energy emitted by it per day, and calculate the time allotted to the sun.
But all this does not seem like a miracle to us now, since we have a developed third body. A thousand years ago, if a person predicted that on such and such a night of such and such a month of the next year a lunar eclipse would take place, then this was a miracle. He was considered a superman. The "miracles" performed today are the ordinary activities of the fourth body. But we do not know anything about this body, and therefore it all seems like miracles.
Imagine that I am sitting on a tree, and you are under a tree, and we are talking. Suddenly I notice in the distance a wagon approaching us and I tell you that it will not take even an hour for it to drive up to us. You ask: "What are you, a prophet? You speak in riddles. I don't see any cart anywhere. I don't believe you." But not even an hour passes, as a wagon rolls up to a tree, and then there is nothing left for you but to touch my leg and say: "Beloved teacher, I bow to you. You are a prophet." And the only difference between us is that I was sitting a little higher - on a tree - from where I could see the wagon an hour earlier than you. I was not talking about the future, but about the present, but my present is an hour different from yours, because I climbed higher. For you it will come in an hour, but for me it has already come.
The deeper a person sinks into his inner being, the more mysterious he seems to those who still remain on the surface. And then all his deeds seem mysterious to us, because we are not able to evaluate all these events, not knowing the laws of the fourth body. That's how miracles happen: it's just a matter of some development of the fourth body. And if we want miracle workers to stop exploiting people, then simple sermons will not help here. Just as we develop the third body of a person by teaching him languages and mathematics, we must also train his fourth body. Every person must be taught, and only then will miracles stop. Until then, there will always be those who want to take advantage of human ignorance.
The fourth body is formed before the age of twenty-eight, that is, seven more. But very few manage to develop it. the body is very important. If a person develops properly, then this body is fully formed by the age of thirty-five. But for the majority, this is only an abstract idea, because even the fourth body is developed by very few. That is why the soul and everything connected with it is for us only a topic for conversation... there is no content behind this word. When we say atman, it is nothing more than a word, there is nothing behind it. When we say "wall", behind this word there is a completely material substance. We know what "wall" means. But behind the word atman there is no meaning, because we have no knowledge, no experience of atman. This is our fifth body, and you can enter it only if the Kundalini wakes up in the fourth. There is no other entrance. After all, we are not aware of our fourth body, therefore the fifth remains unknown to us.
Very few have succeeded in discovering the fifth body - we call such people spiritualists. They often believe that they have reached the end of the journey and declare: "To reach the atman is to reach everything." But the journey is not over yet. However, people who stop at the fifth body deny any continuation whatsoever. They say... "Brahman does not exist, paramatman does not exist," just as people who are stuck on the first body deny the existence of the atman. The materialists say, "The body is everything; when the body dies, everything dies." And the spiritualists echo them: "There is nothing beyond the atman, the atman is everything, the highest level of being." But this is only the fifth body.
The sixth body is the brahma sarira, the cosmic body. When a person outgrows the atman, he has a desire to part with it, and he enters the sixth body. If humanity developed correctly, then the natural formation of the sixth body would be completed by the age of forty-two, and the seventh - nirvana sharira - by forty-nine. The seventh body is the body of nirvana, the non-body is the state of incorporeality, incorporeality. This is the highest state where only vacuum remains - not even brahman or cosmic reality, but only emptiness. Nothing remains, everything disappears.
Therefore, when the Buddha was asked: "What is happening there?", He answered:
The flame goes out.
And what happens then? - they asked him then.
When the flame goes out, there is no point in asking, "Where did it go? Where is it now?" It's gone, and that's it.
The word nirvana means "extinction". That is why the Buddha said that nirvana is coming.
Moksha is experienced in the fifth body. The limitations of the first four bodies are overcome and the soul becomes completely free. So liberation is the experience of the fifth body. Hell and heaven belong to the fourth body, and one who stops here will experience them for himself. For those who stop at the first, second or third body, everything is limited to life between birth and death, life after death is not for them. And if a person grows to the fourth body, then after death, heaven and hell will open before him with endless possibilities of happiness and suffering.
And if he gets to the fifth body, then he finds the door to liberation, having reached the sixth body, he gains the possibility of realization in the Divine. Then there are no questions about freedom or lack of freedom, he himself becomes both. The statement "Aham Brahmasmi" - I am God - belongs to this level. But there is one more step, the last jump - to where neither aham nor Brahman exists, where neither "I" nor "you" exist, where there is simply nothing, where there is complete and absolute emptiness. This is nirvana.
Here are seven bodies developing over forty-nine years. That is why the fiftieth anniversary is considered a revolutionary point. For the first twenty-five years, life flows according to one pattern. At this time, human efforts are directed to the development of the first four bodies, then it is considered that education is completed. It is supposed that after that the person will search for his fifth, sixth and seventh bodies himself and will find them in the next twenty-five years. Therefore, the year of the fiftieth anniversary is considered critical. At this time one becomes a vanaprastha. It only means that from now on he must turn his gaze to the forest - turn away from people, society, bazaars.
The age of seventy-five is another revolutionary point when it is time for a person to initiate sannyasins. To turn one's gaze into the forest means to move away from the crowds of people; to become a sannyasin means to go beyond the ego, to transcend the ego. In the forest, the "I" still necessarily remains with a person, even if he has renounced everything else, but with the onset of his seventy-fifth birthday, he must also renounce this "I" of his.
However, the prerequisite for this is that during his life as an ordinary family man, a person develops all his seven bodies, and then the rest of the journey through life will pass for him joyfully and at ease. If something is missed, then it is very difficult to make up for it, since a strictly defined phase of development is associated with each seven-year cycle. If the child's physical body does not develop fully in the first seven years of his life, then he will remain sickly forever. Although he will not necessarily be bedridden, he will never become completely healthy, because the foundation of health laid in the first seven years of life is shaken. What should be solid and durable is damaged at its very birth.
It's like laying the foundation of a house... if the foundation isn't secure, it'll be difficult - what's more, impossible - to fix it after the roof is in place. It can be well laid only at the initial stage of construction. So, if in the first seven years the first body is given proper conditions, then it develops properly. If during the next seven years the second body and emotions develop badly, this will lead to a series of sexual perversions. And it will be very difficult to fix something later. That is why it is so important not to miss the appropriate stage.
At each life stage, each body has a predetermined period of development. There may be all sorts of minor differences, but that's not the point. If in fourteen years the child does not reach puberty, then his whole life will become one severe test for him. If a person does not develop intelligence by the age of twenty-one, then he has very little chance of catching up something later. So far, everything is fine with us, we take care of the first body of the baby, then we send the child to school to develop his intelligence as well. But we forget that a certain time is also allotted for other bodies, and any omissions here turn into huge difficulties for us.
In fifty years a man develops the bodies that he should have completed by the age of twenty-one. Obviously, at this age he already has much less strength than he did then, and now it is very difficult for him. And what used to be easy, is given hard and long.
But he also faces another difficulty: at the age of twenty-one, he stood right next to the door, but did not open it. Now, over the past thirty years, he had been in so many places that he had completely lost sight of the right door. And now he just can't find the place he used to be in the days when all he had to do was push the knob a little and get in.
Therefore, before children reach the age of twenty-five, they should be well prepared. All necessary measures must be taken to raise them to the level of the fourth body. If this succeeded, everything else is simple. The foundations have been laid, it remains only to wait for the fruits. With the fourth body the tree is formed, with the fifth body the fruits begin to set, and with the seventh they reach maturity. Somewhere around here we can afford to miss the deadline, but we have to be very careful when laying the foundations.
There are a few other things to keep in mind in this regard. In the first four bodies, man and woman are different from each other. For example, if you are a man, then your physical body is masculine. But then your second, ethereal body is female, since neither the negative nor the positive pole can exist separately from each other. The male and female bodies, in terms of electricity, are positive and negative poles.
The physical body of a woman is negative, so she is not characterized by sexual aggression. She may be abused by a man, but she herself is not able to resort to violence. Without the consent of the man, she will not do anything with him. The first body of a man is positive - aggressive. Therefore, he can show aggression towards a woman without her consent, there is an aggressive beginning in his body. But "negative" does not mean null or absent. In terms of electricity, minus is susceptibility, reserve. The female body is a store of energy, and a lot of it accumulates there. But this energy is not active, it is inert.
The physical body of a man is positive, but behind the positive body there must also be a negative one, otherwise it simply cannot exist. Both bodies coexist, and then the circle is complete.
So the second body of a man is female, and the second body of a woman is male. That is why (and this is a very interesting fact) a man looks very strong, and as far as his physical body is concerned, he is. But behind this external force lies a weak female body. Therefore, he is only able to exercise power for a short time. And at long distances, he is inferior to a woman, because behind her weak female body is a positive, masculine one.
Therefore, the resistance of a woman, her endurance is stronger than that of a man. When a man and a woman suffer from the same disease, the woman is able to resist longer. Women give birth to children. If men were to give birth, they would have to go through the same ordeal. And then, probably, there would be no need for family planning, for a man would not be able to endure such a long pain. He may flare up with anger for a second or two, even beat a pillow, but he is not capable of carrying a child in his womb for nine months and then patiently raising him for years. In addition, he can easily strangle a baby if he starts screaming all night. He can't bear this worry. He is extremely strong, but behind the external force is a fragile and delicate ethereal body. Therefore, he does not tolerate pain and discomfort.
As a result, women get sick less and live longer than men.
The third, astral body of a man is again male, and the fourth, psychic, is female. For women, it's exactly the opposite. This division into male and female persists only up to the fourth body, the fifth body is already beyond sexual differences. Therefore, with the attainment of the atman, neither male nor female remains, but not before.
In this regard, another thing comes to mind. So, every man carries a female body, and every woman a male body, and if a woman accidentally finds a husband whose body is identical to her male body, or a man marries a woman identical to his female body, then the marriage is successful. Otherwise - no.
That's why ninety-nine percent of marriages are unhappy... people just don't know the basic rule of success yet. Until we are able to secure the union between the respective energy bodies of the people, marriages will remain mostly unsuccessful, no matter what steps we take in other directions. Successful marriages are possible only if there is absolutely clear scientific information about the various internal bodies. It is very easy for a girl or boy who has awakened the Kundalini in himself to choose the right partner for life. Having gained knowledge of all his internal bodies, a person is able to make the right external choice. Otherwise it is very difficult.
Therefore, people who know have long insisted that a person must first develop the first four bodies, practicing brahmacharya until the age of twenty-five, and only then marry, otherwise whom will he marry? Who does he want to spend the rest of his life with? Who is he looking for? What kind of man is a woman looking for? She is looking for a man inside herself. If, quite by chance, the relationship turned out to be correct, then both the man and the woman are satisfied. Otherwise, there is no satisfaction, and this leads to thousands of perversions. A man goes to a prostitute, runs to a neighbor ... He becomes more and more bitter every day, and the higher his intelligence, the more unhappy he is usually.
* Brahmacharya is one of the degrees of spiritual asceticism in Hinduism. The brahmachari lives in the house of his guru, attends to him, studies the Vedas and observes a number of vows, the first of which is the vow of celibacy. - Approx. transl.
If a person's personal growth stopped at the age of fourteen, he would not have to suffer this pain, for such suffering comes only with the third body. If a man has developed only two bodies, he will be satisfied with his sex life in any case.
So there are two ways: either during the first twenty-five years, in the process of brahmacharya, we develop children to the fourth body, or we encourage child marriage. Child marriage is a marriage performed before the development of the intellect, and then the person stops at sexual life. In this case, there are no problems, because the relationship here remains on a purely animal level. Relationships in child marriage remain purely sexual; and there can be no love here.
Now, in places like America, where the level of education is high and the third body is fully developed, marriages are increasingly breaking up. It cannot be otherwise, as the third body rebels against the failed partnership. And so people get divorced, because such a relationship becomes an unbearable burden for them.
Right education is aimed at developing the first four bodies. A good education takes you to the level of the fourth body, and only then is its work completed. No amount of training will help you to enter the fifth body - you have to get there yourself. A good education can easily take you up to the fourth body, but after that, the growth of the fifth - very valuable and very personal - body begins. Kundalini is the potential of the fourth body and is therefore a psychic phenomenon. I hope you understand now.
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