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  • Etheric Auric Bodies Energy Fields Explained

    Etheric Auric Bodies Energy Fields Explained

    I had written some articles on the esoteric aspects of Indian systems of Thought. Under this comes Tantra Sastra, Energy explanation, Pancha Kosas, that is the five sheaths of Living Beings, Vibration as related to Mantras, Formation of Mantras by combination of Sounds and the presence of Sookshma Sareera,that is Subtle Body.

    Following information is based on Hindu texts including Vedas,Tantra Sastra and Buddhism.

    Our Soul,Atman is surrounded by five sheaths. They are,

    • Annamaya Kosa, Sheath made up of the essence of Food.
    • Pranamaya Kosa,which consists of Breath,that sustains Life.Prana is present in every part and Cell of our body. It’s absence denotes death.
    • Manomaya Kosa,which is made up of the thoughts in our minds.
    • Vigyanamaya Kosa,that is made up of the Tendencies, Dispositions,Awareness( knowledge)
    • Anandamaya Kosa,that is the State of Bliss,which is an Attribute of Reality,Brahman.The other Attributes are Being(Sat), Knowledge (Chith)
    • These three attributes of Reality are expressed in the Pancha Kosas.
    Three levels of Body

    Now Mind and Matter differ only in degree ,not in kind. Everything in the Universe vibrates,right from the atom to galaxies.Motion is the Attribute of Universe and also Reality.So also inertia.Both together make the universe work.This is represented by Sakthi ( Kinetic/motion) and Siva( Potential Energy). Motion creates Vibration. Also Vibration creates motion and which precedes, we do not know.

    Matter,that is Atoms,vibrate, move.All atoms do not vibrate in the same Frequency just as the components light,VIBGYOR do not have the same Frequency. Higher the frequency, the Light becomes invisible at the higher band, Ultraviolet.Lower the frequency, they become Infra Red. Both are not visible to naked eyes.

    We can perceive objects only when our mind is tuned to the frequency with which the Object vibrates or has the same Frequency.This is the reason for some people possessing the ability of Clairvoyance Claiaudience and the like.

    Our physical body is composed of five elements,Earth,Water,Fire,. Air and Ether.The basic components of these are called pancha Tanmatras and they are responsible for each of these elements’ Qualities,like the quality of Fire is to offer Light and Burn. These principles which are present in the Universe are also present in individual bodies. When these components, or the Atoms which form a part of thereof, vibrate, energy field is created.

    These energy fields are visible. There are , surrounding our Physical forms,Etheric Bodies,Auric Bodies and Aura.

    These are the results of Vibrations happening in our bodies which creates Energy fields.

    Buddhism postulates three levels.Physical, Etheric and Auric.

    There are some schools of thought which talk of seven levels corresponding to seven chakras.# I am yet to study this in detail from original source and hence I shall limit to Three Levels.

    Broadly speaking, there are two bodies, as I said at the beginning of the article, Sthula Sareeara,The Gross/ Physical Body,and the Sookshma Sareera,Subtle Body. Subtle body, Sookshma Sareera is called Astral Body. The Astral body vibrates at a higher frequency and ,unlike the Gross/ Physical Body, is not bound by Space and Time. So, the Astral body can travel in Space while physical body is at rest at one place.Thatvis one can travel long distances without moving away from where he,his physical body is.

    One can see the Etheric and Auric Bodies and can know about their physical and mental health.

    I shall write on how to do Astral travel , how to interpret Hues and energy fields.And how to measure Energy,Etheric fields.

    Featured image from..https://oracletarot.wordpress.com/chakra-cards/

    Image in the article from. https://www.wikihow.com/See-Auras

  • Out Of Body Experience Scientific Experiment Hinduism Explanation

    Out Of Body Experience Scientific Experiment Hinduism Explanation

    People are scared of Death.

    Nobody is an exception to this.

    I have remarked in an article that there are two reasons for this.

    One is the fear of Pain accompanying Death and another is,

    The uncertainty of what would happen after death.

    Would we suffer unbearable pain after Death as described in various legends and Religious Texts?

    What would happen to us after Death?

    Are we reborn?

    In that case will we be a Human being?

    People reported that they were enveloped in a pool of white light while they were experiencing out of body sensation.This, they said after they survived from near death.

    Will what is called as Sins haunt us?

    I have a friend who is a neurophysician of world repute , a scientist and consultant to over Eighty Governments.True scientist that he is, he ,on this subject and on things which defy logic and empirical science says that once you start saying awareness or the concept of ‘I’, Neurology takes a backseat.Most of the things that are felt, experienced by this are not explained in Neurosciences.Cognition is one such Concept.Undestanding and feeling, there is a fine difference. Some experiences are not explainable from the angle of neurology.At best, they attempt to stimulate and try to understand the phenomenon.However, the answer,at best, would how it could have happened,that too as a tentative hypothesis,and never why .

    Such an experience is one feeling one to be out of one’s body, looking at it and observing it. Most of the times, one can recount what had happened during that period.Some times the Experience, called Out Of Body Experience,OBE,is quite vivid,and sometimes it is not.You can see yourself,either seeming to float over your body, or standing away from it. This happens, typically either when you are sitting ,deeply engrossed in thought or, at other times, you are lying down, not sleeping, but hovering around that area between sleep and wakefulness.You can, at that stage,see your body,people around you and hear what the see or hear. But you do not hear what you say! The last part is my personal experience.

    Check out yourself. This happens to everyone of us. What is the explanation?

    Esoteric Hinduism and Buddhism have explanations.

    As a philosophical theory, Hinduism talks about layers,Sheaths covering human soul,Atma.

    • Annamayakosa,Sheath of the essence of food.
    • Pranamayakosa,Sheath of Breath,
    • Manomayakosa,of Mind,
    • Vignyanamayakosa,of Knowledge and
    • Anandamayakosa, sheath of Bliss.

    Our Body, according to Hinduism,is, apart from our Karma, is sustained by essence of Food,annarasa.We can compare to our concept of calories generated ,that gets converted to Energy. Similarly, Prana is the vital energy and there is a sheath of This vital energy surrounding human body. Then we have the Mind, which is repository of responses received by it from the external world and also the impressions created in our Mind because of our dispositions.This is the next sheath. After this we have the sheath of knowledge, Vignyanamayakosa. Knowledge is different from information. Information is collected by the Mind while knowledge is the domain big Intellect, Buddhi, the discriminator between Right and Wrong, Correct and Incorrect.This sheath is the one that keeps us away from Reality, Brahman, by feeding us untrue knowledge.The final sheath is Anandamayakosa.This is a sheath of Bliss.This is the Attribute of Brahman, Reality.This is our our real nature.

    Except, Annamayakosa , all the kosas,sheaths are beyond body. These sheaths support the physical frame.During out of body Experience, Manomayakosa kosa comes into play and it observes the gross ,Sthula sareera,body as a disinterested Observer.It is impelled to do so because of our Karma palas, our actions reactions and our dispositions.Dispositions are determined by our Actions.

    According to Hindu thought Human body has two aspects. One is Gross ,another Subtle,Sookshma.The Sthula sareer is sustained by Annarasa,essence of food,Sookshma sareera is maintained by Pranamaya kosa and Manomayakosa.This is why out of body Experience happens.When manomayakosa is quite active as in deep thought, it goes out and observes body.Mind is not expected to leave body for a long-time unless dictated by Prana. Sometimes because of some remnants of Good karma vasana, remnants of good actions, mind goes out and tries to say out. But the Time is not over for the Body.It is over only when Prana,life energy leaves the body.So Prana pulls the Manomayakosa back to gross body. While it renters,at times, it may not enter at the correct angle. So, you would find a Jerk,as in suddenly coming awake or while breaking away from deep thought.

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    Out Of Body Experience Scientific Experiment Hinduism Explanation

    Buddhism says body has Gross level,followed by Abstract. Abstract has Etheric level,Auric level
    Etheric body surrounds the physical body( immediately next to it) and then Auric body surrounds.When one sees the Physical Body, it is the Etheric body that sees it.

    More of Etheric body is explained by Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, Reverend Leadbeater and Dr. Annie Besant. I shall write on this.

    On Buddhist interpretation, please read Lobsang Rampa’s The Third Eye.

  • Dreaming, Wakefulness A Thin Line

    Recently I saw a Film, ‘1408’

    Sleep parameters.
    Biological State of Sleep

    It deals with a study of dreams and waking state.

    One can no call the film as belong to the genre of Horror,Thriller.

    I would classify it as an exploratory film on the frontiers of the Human State .

    A non believer in Ghosts and Religion in general checks into a known haunted Hotel Room despite advised to the contrary.

    Within a few minutes he experiences things that are not normal and he is terrified his reasoning power notwithstanding.

    He meets up with his Father and daughter and is tormented between his beliefs and what he is experiencing.

    He comes out of this situation though he has been told it was not possible,only find he had not come out of it.

    He comes out again and his estranged wife who as skeptical about his experiences starts to believe when she hears the voice of her daughter in the Recording hr husband had made while in the Hotel Room.

    The film ends with a distinct feeling to the watcher of the fIlm even this last sequence might be a Draem or a sleeping State.

    This post is not about the Film but about the Human Sates of,

    Waking,

    Dreaming,

    Deep Sleep and

    Beyond.

    Researchers into Sleep classify Sleep into

    1.REM Rapid Eye Movement-initial state of the Sleep.

    2.Dreaming and

    3 Deep Sleep.

    Alpha and Beta waves are prominently detected for I and 2 respectively and Delta wave is found in the Deep Sleep State.

    This is all the maximum explanation Science could provide biologically on Sleeping?Slumber apart from making loud noises about the Brain needing rest, the body recharging during sleep.

    Psychologists as usual try everything under the sun for explaining away Sleep.

    Sigmund Freud says it is the repressed desires expressing themselves , Jung states it is the Human personality asserting itself in Sleep.

    Behaviorist say, well, it is Behavior!

    But the main question has not been answered.

    What happens during Sleep and what is dreaming and deep sleep?

    Buddhist  Schools speak of the Etheric body, Astral Body

    The Astral body leaves and experiences as befits individual Karma and returns.

    The Vedas. especially Advaita classifies Sleep State into Four.

    1.Jagrat-Wakefulness, the state we are normally in.

    2.Swapna-The Dreaming State.

    3.Sushupti-The Deep dreamless state and

    4.Thuriya-Beyond Deep Sleep ans a step towards Self Realization.

    The Self lies beyond.

    Adi Sankara explains that these states are the manifestations of Consciousness,,Universal Consciousness , not individual Consciousness.

    A Yogi and a seeker of Truth goes beyond this fourth State.

    This is what Lord Krishna means in the Second Chapter of The Bhagavad Gita when he says ,

    Yogi keeps awake while the whole world is asleep and sleeps when every one is awake.

    Come to think of it we can not be sure whether I am awake writing this Post or this is a part of a Dream I am going through.

    The Film Matrix series and of late th Film Inception was based on similar lines,though they based it on SpaceTime and Co-ordinates.

    Some dreams are so vividly real we wake up shaking .

    Rene Descartes the Great Rationalist( Philosophical term , not to be confused with the self-styled rationalist jokers like Karunanidhi and Kamal Hassan) proves the Existence of God the External World and Mind.

    While describing the process of enquiry he says he can not trust his senses for they are not always right.

    He can not trust others’ words as the truth for he does not know whether they can be relied upon.

    As he goes on in this vein he exclaims,

    ” Am I awake or Dreaming, May be It Real world I was experiencing when I was dreaming and this world might be a Dream.

    True the thin line between Dream and Wakefulness is blurred.

    I do not know.

    The Fil 1408 Trailer.

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  • Better Health , Spirituality Through Subtle Body, Aura

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    Rampa claimed that his 1964 book, Living with the Lama, was dictated to him by his cat (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    ‘The Third Eye‘ of Lobsang Rampa deals extensively with the Subtle Body.

    In Indian Philosophy, Mind is also classified as a sense organ just as the other Organs like Eyes,Ears,Nose,Mouth,Skin(sense of touch)

    The difference between them and the Mind is that while the senses vibrate at a lower frequency when compared to The Mind.

    (All objects in the World vibrate).

    Higher the frequency, more subtle the object.

    Mind being in the Higher frequency is not visible.

    And it perceives better than the sense organs.

    Human Body is surrounded by three layers of subtle body.

    The first level is the  ‘Etheric Body, which extends up-to one-eighth of an inch from the Physical frame.

    Afte rthis, is the ;Auric Body’ which is about half of the size of the Etheric Body.

    Beyond this is the “aura’

    Many of us would have wondered about the yellow( Round) glow around the pictures/portraits of Divine Personalities.

    This indicates the Highest Evolution of Spiritual Enlightenment.

    The Etheric Body indicates the Physical.emotional and spiritual state of an individual.

    If the Etheric glow is Red it is indicative of Physical ailment‘/emotional turmoil,Blue serenity and so on.

    Higher levels are indicated by the Auric Body and The Aura.

    One can know on’e development in the emotional and Spiritual level and work towards a better and healthy Life.

    For more details one may read the books of Lobsang Rampa,The Third Eye,The Cave of the Ancients, Living with The Lama.

    Rampa is a Buddhist Monk and his system is based on Buddhism

    Indian philosophy has another system though the essential Principles remain the same.

    In essence these systems demonstrate the power of Mind/Conciousness over the Physical body.

    More to follow including demonstration technic.

    Now a system of Medicine has been evolved on these Lines -‘The Kortum Technique’

    “The thought atmosphere is a real, substantial thing and has in it all that makes the body. So many people consider the things they cannot see as unsubstantial; and although they are told, over and over that they cannot conceal themselves, they go right on believing that they can…It is well for us to know the truth that we carry around with us the open book of our lives, out of which all men read whether we realize it or not. Some people are good thought readers, while others are dull; but all can read a little and we cannot conceal ourselves. Also, our thought atmosphere is constantly precipitating its slowly cooling words on our body and there it is seen by all men. We can, with a little practice, feel the thought force of this atmosphere that surrounds us and gradually gain realization of its existence as real as that of the outer world.”

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