"Only when a being has no further desires for experiences in the
pleasing-to-the-eye astral cosmos, and cannot be tempted to go
back there, does he remain in the causal world. Completing there
the work of redeeming all causal karma or seeds of past desires, the
confined soul thrusts out the last of the three corks of ignorance
and, emerging from the final jar of the causal body, commingles
with the Eternal.
"Now do you understand?" Master smiled so enchantingly!
"Yes, through your grace. I am speechless with joy and gratitude."
Never from song or story had I ever received such inspiring knowledge.
Though the Hindu scriptures refer to the causal and astral worlds
and to man's three bodies, how remote and meaningless those pages
compared with the warm authenticity of my resurrected Master! For
him indeed existed not a single "undiscover'd country from whose
bourn no traveller returns"!
"The interpenetration of man's three bodies is expressed in many
ways through his threefold nature," my great guru went on. "In
the wakeful state on earth a human being is conscious more or less
of his three vehicles. When he is sensuously intent on tasting,
smelling, touching, listening, or seeing, he is working principally
through his physical body. Visualizing or willing, he is working
mainly through his astral body. His causal medium finds expression
when man is thinking or diving deep in introspection or meditation;
the cosmical thoughts of genius come to the man who habitually
contacts his causal body.
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