At astral
death these beings pass to the infinitely finer and more delicate
causal world. Shedding the thought-form of the causal body at the
end of a certain span, determined by cosmic law, these advanced
beings then return to Hiranyaloka or a similar high astral planet,
reborn in a new astral body to work out their unredeemed astral
karma.
"My son, you may now comprehend more fully that I am resurrected by
divine decree," Sri Yukteswar continued, "as a savior of astrally
reincarnating souls coming back from the causal sphere, in
particular, rather than of those astral beings who are coming up
from the earth. Those from the earth, if they still retain vestiges
of material karma, do not rise to the very high astral planets like
Hiranyaloka.
"Just as most people on earth have not learned through meditation-acquired
vision to appreciate the superior joys and advantages of astral life
and thus, after death, desire to return to the limited, imperfect
pleasures of earth, so many astral beings, during the normal
disintegration of their astral bodies, fail to picture the advanced
state of spiritual joy in the causal world and, dwelling on thoughts
of the more gross and gaudy astral happiness, yearn to revisit the
astral paradise. Heavy astral karma must be redeemed by such beings
before they can achieve after astral death a permanent stay in the
causal thought-world, so thinly partitioned from the Creator.
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