Who else who least knows that the soul, after physical death, strips itself of the body and breaks into a new sphere of reality in which there are so many vibratory stripes or dimensional spaces such as emotional states, desires and beliefs can accommodate a person. From the densest layers in which the beings who remain attached to a material world to which they no longer belong and those who suffer because of their own feelings of guilt and remorse dwell, to the highest levels that welcome those who openly tune into the most beautiful resonances of love, joy, joy and concord .
I am referring to the astral sphere, an intermediate world that acts as a bridge between the earthly world and the spiritual world, and on whose cusp is the Mental plane ; an extensive zone of confluence in which these refined frequencies of emotional type coexist harmoniously, with the multiple ways of thinking that run outside the influence of low passions.
In ancient Vedic writings there is no reference to a plane located between the astral and the causal sphere. For these wise pre-Hinduists in each life cycle the soul of man remained locked in three different bodies: the physical, the astral and the causal. The physicist, obviously the most dense and restrictive of the three, contained the vital instincts of the human being; the astral housed both the psyche and the emotional aspects of a person and, finally, the cause, was the vehicle with which one could access the subtle world of ideas. The theosophists, however, in describing the septenary constitution of the human being, granted the astral body the totality of its emotional dimension and divided the mental aspects into two distinct bodies: the causal, endowed with a superior and abstract mind ( manas ) and the mental, in charge of housing a concrete, rational and egoic lower mind, which would be placed on the cusp of the so-called "lower quaternary". This lower mind that the theosophists extracted from the ancient Vedic texts and whose name in Sanskrit ( kama-manas) means "mind of desire", is the mental body that resides in the mental plane (within the astral sphere) and that together with the physical and emotional aspects of a person make up the transitory personality that the Being acquires for each new life cycle.
In summary, that once the experimentation in the physical and astral (emotional) worlds is completed, who has been able to leave behind envy, jealousy, resentment, gross material desires and all the accumulation of dense emotions and confusions that do not they did more than muddle the authentic magnificence of the Being, it will have the privilege of enjoying a very pleasant life in a much more subtle, luminous and radiant environment than any other of those that populate the huge astral sphere.
It could be said that the degree of happiness, peace and lucidity in which one is here corresponds to the true “heaven” to which most religions allude in their most mystical and deepest sense, or to the Devachan of the ancient traditions esoteric; that is to say, a dimensional space that transcends the traditional belief systems of the astral environment and in which one enjoys the greatest of said ones until the moment of having to be born again.
On the mental level, it is well known that every being pursues the same goal: to rediscover itself as a divine, eternal and immortal being, with which there is no place here for exclusionary beliefs or identifications with symbols and rituals that separate ones and others. But transcending a belief system does not mean having to give up a particular belief or faith, on the contrary, one can continue to profess a certain creed only by doing so from a much higher perspective that brings with it a greater degree of knowledge and understanding. An understanding that necessarily goes through a deep and sincere respect for diversity . And it is useless to lead a consecrated life to religious worship or spirituality as long as there is still a component of aversion to other ideologies of existential character as well as a certain contempt for other ways of thinking based on disbelief and skepticism.
Surprising as it may seem, many of the people who in their current earthly life manifest a clear disinterest for everything that can be framed within the scope of the spiritual, probably in previous episodes of their existence will have dedicated lives Whole religious worship and worship. His lack of interest in this life could very well be due to the fact that his purpose on this occasion would be fixed in pursuing other ends, developing in other ways of knowledge or simply in experiencing other facets of life, but in any case nobody doubts that even the most atheistic atheists can be such noble, loyal, honest, compassionate, kind and altruistic people, such as those to whom He attributes a more spiritual tendency to them.
There is a nice quote from Emmanuel Swedenborg that says Heaven is where man has placed his heart n . That is, it is our interests and motivations in earthly life that will determine our place in the sky. Thus, when the central axis around which a person's life revolves is his intellectual dimension, as is usually the case in the case of scientists, scholars, writers, philosophers and everything here. He whose predominant energy is of the mental type; also they will find in this plane their place of consonance and here they will be directed as long as they have not been previously retained by denser strips of energy because of their own desires and attachments material, emotional and even mental that are scattered throughout the vast astral.
The second death
However, despite the fact that in the innumerable worlds that orbit the mental plane there is no old age, disease or death, the beings that reside there cannot stop feeling somewhat restless before the certainty that sooner or later they should n shed her mental body and move on to a new sphere of reality of which they hardly know anything; the causal sphere That is, something similar to what happens to the man on the physical plane before the uncertainty of what may happen to exhale his last breath, although this time with a significant difference. The fear that one faces here is no longer whether or not there will be a place where life goes on, because at this point any inhabitant of the astral sphere knows perfectly and from experience that life is inherent in Being and that it does not cease when you move your body, so the reason for your concern is another. The mental body is the most subtle of the four lower bodies of the human being (physical, etheric, astral and mental) and in it resides the personal identity and the ego . Therefore, the being who is about to leave the mental plane to prepare to consciously enter the causal plane, the challenge he faces is neither more nor less than having to part with his personality .
But what is personality?
The personality of any individual brings together a whole range of references to his person such as a name, a face, a body, a story, roots, a country of residence, a social function, a trade, family and emotional ties, beliefs, ideologies, skills, tastes, etc., as well as a whole series of experiences that have been modeling a character, a way of being and a very particular imprint that identifies him as a unique and unrepeatable being.
It is understandable then that in the expectation of having to abandon everything with what one identifies and feels as one's own, restlessness and even fear appear, because a priori, this would seem to be something similar to the extinction itself. This is therefore the toughest test that one faces in this new transit since the personality that he forged in the physical plane and that has been accompanying him throughout a life cycle, astral and mental, is so extremely rooted in what each one believes to be, it is extremely difficult to imagine a life without it. And the ego on the other hand, although much more weakened in these high regions than when it was covered by multiple layers of desire, need and primary instincts, will also oppose with all its strength to produce what ultimately becomes inevitable. : its dissolution.
This is the "second death" that one faces when he concludes his stay in the subtle world of mental manifestation. But getting rid of the mental body and the personality that it carries with it in no case means annihilating the Being, because everything that has happened in our lives is perfectly collected and integrated into a greater consciousness; the consciousness of our true self .
Therefore crossing the threshold of the astral sphere means abandoning the different worlds of illusion in which we had been living until then to return to the imperishable spiritual world to which we belong. It is like removing the dense veil that stood between the egoic being of current life and the divine and eternal Being that has always been present deep inside us. Precisely in this consist the ancient disciplines of yoga and meditation. In their multiple variants, all they do is lead us to a state of inner calm that allows us to transcend the physical, emotional and mental envelopes, so that in this way we can join our purest and most primordial essence .
This feeling of peace, communion and serene happiness that those who regularly practice any of these techniques know so well, is what can best explain what it is to dissolve our personality or lower Self, in the magnificence of our spirit, Higher Self or true Self .
Author: Ricard Barrufet Santolària, editor in the big family of hermandadblanca.org
from the book : " Plans of Existence, Dimensions of Consciousness"
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