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Buckshee » 18 Feb 2017, 02:49
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The Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume III Stage Six. Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda

life. As you were, so you will be now. So your life is dependent on your past. It all depends on the way you think on the last day of your life. All the affairs of your life will pass before you, and they will determine the image of the body for your future life.
Various degrees of incarnation
God was a spirit - always present, always cheerful, always a new blessing that fills the eternal void. He was Joy, yet He wanted others to enjoy Him, thus. He became Spirit and Nature, male and female. The one and only turned into many, and now, after the ocean of the spirit created many in itself through the storms of delusion, He wished to return the waves of the soul back to His bay, but since God gave man a free choice, then man should use it to calm the storm. delusions through the magical dam of the will, and he must be given the opportunity to return to the soul-waves in the always blissful bay of the spirit.
You are restless. You are sent into the world - for entertainment. This world is nothing but a theatrical performance. God wants entertainment. In the cinema of outer space He shows films. All our experiences - struggle, and birth, and death - are nothing but vibrations of electrons, however, we do not consider life to be entertainment, but we consider it all to be serious. This is wrong. Again and again you will see that this world is only a film, however, in order to understand this, we need to learn to look at it the way God looks at it.
Before a person's individualized spirit or soul can mix or merge with the ocean of the spirit, the prison walls must be broken down. This is shown very clearly in the illustration of three vessels of salt water, one inside the other, floating in the sea.
Man has three bodies, namely:
1. Physical body with 16 elements.
2. Astral body - 19 elements: mind, self (ego), chitta, consciousness, ten senses and five pranas.
3. spiritual body - 35 элементов: семена идей, которые относятся к 16-ти элементам физического тела и 19-ти элементам астрального body.
The soul is enclosed in a spiritual body and locked up in ignorance. The physical body is like other bodies - the covers of the soul. Although the physical body disintegrates at death, the astral body takes with it unfulfilled desires, their imprints and uncoordinated vibrations, which must be fulfilled or produced in a subsequent incarnation. The astral sense organs are real organs. The physical sense organs are physical instruments, instruments of manifestation. You see that the ten physical senses correspond to the ten astral senses.
The astral body must incarnate into another physical body in order to satisfy its aspirations of desires and activities.
Desires guide energy. Unfulfilled wishes form an impulse of energy directed towards the fulfillment of desires. If the astral body lacks the instrument of manifestation, then it "must be born" in another physical body in order to carry out these tendencies. In this way, material desires create a force that strives to come out, guiding the soul, which is not satisfied with the present life, through the many experiences and sufferings of reincarnation. This power must be turned to God in order to free the soul, which has forgotten its rights and identified with the physical body. This soul connection with the body is called "I" (ego). Man must use his free choice to calm the storm of delusions by means of the magical wand of will, and he must enable the soul-wave thrown by desires to return back to rest in the harbor of the eternally blessed spirit.
Memory is not a test of previous existence
Even if we do not remember our previous lives, this does not prove that we did not exist before. We don't remember the stages of life of our embryo during nine months, but we also don't remember the time when we were six months old. So how can we remember that we lived in a different body with a different brain and with a different nervous system and with different experiences.
It's good that we don't remember the hard experiences of our previous lives. If we remembered our childhood days, the days of our youth and old age, then we would not want to again experience childhood pranks, comedies of youth and tragedies of old age. Just think what a blessing reincarnation gives us, for it casts aside the old, worn-out chariots of life and gives us a completely new model of our body, through which you can win the competition.
It will take years of research to find out previous incarnations. You cannot learn about reincarnations through reading books and listening to lectures, but through scientific metaphysical quests. Reincarnation is the only logical solution to our life.
Leaving the world and going to meditate in the forest is an extreme, since your worldly desires may follow you into the forest. It is necessary to live in a world where there are so many misfortunes and so many desires are born, to be in the world, but not of this world, or, to put it better, enjoy the world through pure Divine joy, which gives lasting happiness. Then whatever you do will be right. Running away from the world without conquering desires creates hypocrisy, and staying in the world without training will make you cruel and worldly and you will disappear into the crowd. To do every work in the world for the glory and benefit of God is the highest ideal, according to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the Indian scriptures, which can be applied to the life of both Western and Eastern people. If you go into the forest and live unhygienically, then you can get sick and die, and if you live in a world without peace, then you will die in mental sorrows, but you should, with God in your heart and with a smile on your face, give an opportunity to your hands work tirelessly for the truth.

3. CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS
Thoughts are like words, and they send out vibrations, both good and bad, depending on the way you think. If you can stop thinking for as long as you like, if your mind can always remain calm and you can stop your breathing at will and be calm and happy in God consciousness, then you have perfect self-control.
You think that you are mortal and you need to be ready for the hour of death. Eradicate such a thought from the mind and know that you are immortal. The easiest and best way to experience the resurrection is to do good and meditate regularly daily.
Most people are spiritually lazy. They are full of the belief that spiritual problems are too big to be interpreted, and therefore they put them aside. However, if you ask God, He will definitely answer you. Just be patient and faithful in your deep determination to learn.
If you live only to know God, and everything else - money, wealth or health - is not your goal, but only God is the goal of your whole life, then everything else will be added to you. Get first of all contact with God in the temple of the world, and then you will have health, well-being and wisdom.

4. INBORRIOUS SOULS
Part I
Metaphysical explanation
In a metaphysical definition, a disembodied soul means a soul that has freed itself not only from the fetters of the physical body, but also from two other bodies - from the subtle and the causal (karmic). Usually, a disembodied soul is considered a soul that is freed from the physical body in the event of death.
All souls cannot move throughout space, just as in the material world people cannot enter every house. Physically incorporeal souls with different properties form separate groups, consciously or unconsciously staying in certain areas. Good souls who have learned to understand the meaning of sleep and death leave the physical body consciously and retain their consciousness at death. Moral souls have free choice and wide opportunities to change their place of residence in the spiritual world. Whenever they want, they can reincarnate. Reincarnation is not forced for them - people with deep realization can leave and incarnate on earth whenever they want.
Our family is the closest and most beloved living beings to us. We become attached to them, but suddenly they are suddenly taken from us without any explanation. And we want to be angry. Why do souls come and go again? For what reason? If someone wants to take away our property from us, then we fight, we initiate a lawsuit against him, but we only cry helplessly when our most precious property - our loved ones - is taken away from us - suddenly, for no reason and prematurely. Our heart breaks when someone close to us dies, we weep bitterly, we suffer quietly, and then, after some time, we more or less forget about it and submit to fate.

Who determines the relationship of people
Is it possible to find any reasonable explanation for the fact that you are given the opportunity to love a person and then, perhaps, after a while, when you are already used to him, he is mysteriously taken from you by the hand of death? Is nature a joker who is pleased to see how people love each other, in order to separate them later? Is nature a great joker who mocks the laws of holy sincere love and friendship? Is the love of parents only an expression of instinct? Is love between

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