SPIRITUAL WORLD

Spiritual world

     Many investigated about the spiritual world and expressed their experience and opinion. One such investigation is from the Spiritual Science Research Foundation (S S R F) with highly developed sixth sense (E S P). The human body seems to have unlimited secrets both of physical body that deals with 5 senses and the invisible spiritual bodies such as astral body and causal body that are not susceptible to normal senses. These can only be understood if one can go out of the 5 senses of the physical body and develop the sixth sense known as extra sensory perception (E S P). Science has not reached that stage of detecting and developing E S P. So we are bound to know something from experts who investigated in this field.

     They have divided spiritual planes into 14 parts including that of Earth plane. 7 planes are positive with the physical life on Earth as the lowest positive plane. There are 7 negative planes. The positive planes above the Earth plane are occupied by angels and those human subtle bodies with righteous deeds on Earth plane and with concentrated positive thinking and engaged in positive spiritual practices. The 7 negative zones are occupied by devils and demons and sinner human subtle bodies that did unrighteous deeds on the physical Earth plane and engaged in negative spiritual practices.

    The human body consists of four basic bodies namely 1 Physical body comprising of five senses touch, taste, sound, smell and sight. 2 Mental body consists of feelings, emotions and desires, 3 Causal or intellectual body capable of decision making and reasoning, 4 supra causal or subtle ego consists of feeling that we are separate from God. Soon after death the physical body remains on Earth and the vital energy is released into the universe and the subtle body goes through the subtle region in the universe, where it gets accustomed to the new region without physical body. (The existence of the body without the physical body is known as subtle body). Depending on its spiritual level such as merits or sins it gradually travels into a subtle plane of existence such as heaven, nether or hell. That is the subtle body travels into one of the 13 subtle planes of existence other than the earth plane which is the only physical plane of existence and also the first positive plane. All subtle bodies that enter the subtle negative planes will become ghosts. Due to suffering in these planes these ghosts attempt to induce fear and suffering in other normal human beings living in the earth plane. Some are of the opinion that the six negative planes of ghosts can drag a weak minded person (such as one who commits suicide) into their planes even if they are good in nature.  But this seems to be against the law of natural justice. Even if a weak minded good person dies there should be some provision to save him. Angels or strong minded people who were in positive planes should come to his rescue, and take him into the positive planes. Whatever it may be, it is always safe to develop sufficient strength of mind on earth plane itself to avoid such possibility. There is no need for mental powers, but it is enough if one can come out of very loose thinking by practicing methods of concentration. Sufficient strength of mind can save any from ghost attack even in the earth plane. There is scope for rebirth only from positive planes. Once if any enters into the negative planes of ghosts it is almost impossible for rebirth and further improvement.

     There are three basic components in human beings such as SATTVA (purity and knowledge) RAJA (action and passion), and TAMA (ignorance and inertia). Sattvik person lives in service of society with no expectation of recognition or reward. Rajasic man lives more for personal gain and achievement and a Tamasic man is harmful to society for his personal gains. These three basic components can be changed by spiritual practice. It is more probable that most of the persons belonging to the Tamasic component are likely to be dragged into any of the 7 negative planes.

DREAMS CONNECTED TO THE SUBTLE WORLD:

Some attribute some dreams to be connected to subtle planes of existence. Since on earth we are having not only the physical body but also the other bodies such as astral and causal bodies, it is quite possible that some subtle body of our close relatives or others may come into contact with our latent subtle body. Just for example one night my wife came into my dream and at the same night she also came into the dream of our daughter. It appears that she visited us from the other planes of existence on the same night. One more thing to be investigated on the aspect that our subtle bodies are active during our sleep is as follows. Suppose you happen to see a living person in your dream along with other dead person or alone, it is an indication that both of your subtle bodies are active and came into contact with each other. In such a case the other living person should also get the same or similar dream at the same time. If this happens it can be confirmed that our subtle body also travels while we are asleep. It may please be noted that in the subtle world there is nothing like time or distance. Everything is instantaneous. Any external sound can wake us up momentarily from the dream. This idea entered my mind recently and hence I could not get an opportunity to verify the same.

     We can plan our spiritual existence from the earth plane itself. Some knowledge of these subtle planes is also essential for us to plan our future into the unknown spiritual world.