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The Astral Worlds--Paramahansa Yogananda

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The Astral World (1) by Paramahansa Yogananda Excerpts from SRF Magazine Spring/Summer 2010 At Death We Go to the Astral World ... Until you know your spiritual nature as connected with that divine Creative Force, what a mystery this life is! Today you are here and tomorrow you are gone. When you pass over to the life after death, this whole world will become as a dream to you. You don't grieve when you have to change a worn-out coat you have been wearing. How foolish it is to think that this body—the "overcoat" worn by your soul— will be permanent. It seems real now, but it will disappear. Then where will your soul go? To the astral world—the "heavenly" realm of light and indestructible life, the realm of vibratory life energy hidden behind the veil of the gross material universe.

Your True Nature

Light is the real essence of everything. This earth is not "earth" as you see it; it is light. From the astral world we come at birth, and there we shall return at death. Someone asked me why we should try to connect with the astral world now. To this I reply, "Because that is where you will realize the freedom of your true nature. You were there as a soul cloaked in an astral form to start with; and because you are not there now and have lost that memory is why all your misery persists." By entering that other world, we learn the causes and healing of all suffering and diseases. We discover the secret of our existence—what happens after death, and where we were before birth, and how to live in the material world without losing our divine connection.

This world has a lot of limitations and the astral world has none. When a soul leaves the expansiveness of the astral world to be born on earth, that human baby finds himself restricted and confined in the mother's womb and wants to get out of it but can't. For nine months he has to wait. Then he is subjected to the helplessness of infancy. As he grows into adolescence he must fight his way through passions and emotions, which if he doesn't control will get him into all kinds of misery. Then he marries, struggles to support a family, and perhaps is happy for a little while—but as he gets older everything starts to go wrong with his body-machine and eventually he dies. Every day this drama of mortal limitations, whatever be its minor variations, is playing itself out in your life; and still you cling to this world as most desirable. It is not.

If you could perceive the astral world, you would know that it is infinitely more real than the earth-plane, which is just inert matter without the enlivening powers of the up-holding astral world. Material existence is only a shadow of that higher, finer dimension of reality. This world is the result of the astral world. The blueprints of everything in the physical universe have been astrally conceived—all the forms and forces in nature, including the complex human body, have been first produced in that realm where God's causal ideations are made visible in forms of heavenly light and vibratory energy. Then they are materialized in physical form out of the ether. But the astral body of man and the astral counterparts of everything in nature are vastly more beautiful, more vibrant, more expressive of the harmony and perfection of the Divine Creator than what we perceive when our consciousness is limited to matter.

The astral world is not the ultimate liberating experience; the soul attains complete ascension only through realization of its oneness with the Creator Himself. Nevertheless, soul progress begins with the effort to disengage from the delusion of material bondage into the higher awareness of one's finer astral existence. Learn to be more transcendent now; identify with the life of your astral self and its connection with the astral world.

How to get to that higher plane? In thought you are always there; but because you are so identified with the physical perceptions of your thoughts, the underlying astral world that powers those thoughts and perceptions is not as real to you. Your soul sojourns there every night when you are asleep, only you are not conscious of it. For just a little while during wakefulness the soul is in the material environment. The rest of the time it is in the astral. Whenever you are using the subconscious mind—dreaming or employing its creative power of visions and visualization—you are to some degree in the astral world. So it isn't that you do not get there. You are always there, unknowingly linked with the astral source from which the life and intelligence and sensory powers of your physical body are constantly flowing. You are working from that astral plane. Even though you think you are a material being dependent on the material world, you are not. You should learn to get acquainted with your real base of operations.

Suppose you have two houses—one in the slums where there is constantly turmoil and fighting going on, and another in the beautiful section of town where there is order and harmony. When you go to your better home, you find peace and contentment. That is what I urge you: Live in the consciousness of your finer astral body rather than "slumming" in the physical.   

Portal to the Astral World: Meditation --

Meditation As long as you enslave yourself to the demands and desires of the physical body, so long you are in for trouble— much trouble! Why are you so attached to the body? Only because you have chosen to be. Meditation is nothing magical; it is the natural process of doing away with attachment to the flesh and transferring your consciousness to the spiritual side of your nature. We meditate not only for the peace and joy and happiness it brings, but also to free ourselves from the limitations of material existence. -- Read more at:

http://www.yogananda.com.au/py_talks/astral_world01.html
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 15, 2017 12:07 pm »

The only purpose of life is to get away from the delusion of this material world. Wait no longer. How dare you forget God! I testify to you of the existence of God's astral kingdom; now why don't you seek it? You are always trying to create that picture of perfection here on earth, but it is fruitless. You will never succeed, for this world is a place of too many limitations. That Utopian dream is but the lost forgotten memory of your experience of the astral world. -- Read more at: http://www.yogananda.com.au/py_talks/astral_world02.html

This article is really inspiring to me. The paragraph above reminds me of some our political differences and my attempts to find ideal situations and people here on this earth...it is really quite futile according to Paramahansa Yogananda.
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 19, 2017 02:58 pm »

This is the importance of meditation. Because without it most people cannot relate to anything beyond the physical realm. They are very skeptical about spiritual and astral experiences of others they may meet. Not understanding the ability of those that channel astral energies into this realm they treat them as some kind of God or say they are very talented or they may identify them as weird or delusionary.
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« Reply #3 on: Feb 01, 2018 06:34 am »

i think though, in attempts to emerge in the astral that the one is only capable of perceiving this realm in a manner that is fitting to their current capacity for truth... while i have stumbled about in a haze it seems some are able to move about with ease. it also seems that things are able to manifest in the astral that aren't really there... maybe the room i see in the astral isn't really there but just my translation of the plane in order to make sense of my experience???

i've also tried meditating today, while it was peaceful... has been peaceful these past couple of days, i long to feel more which i am not sure if i am achieving. i don't mean to come across as impatient or selfish, i usually just go back to focusing on the breath and after to long i get tired and heavy. other times i just feel peace and quiet. it's actually quite wonderful... yet i have this longing to hear god and sometimes i feel i am still so far away from this realization.

it is also tiring to constantly carry spirit or see spirit in all things. what i mean is, it isn't god isn't always there but i am easily distracted from this realization and not always able to live in this accordance. i wonder too if we are to love another in service then are my pursuits sometimes selfish if it means cutting off my social ties?
well... going off on a tangent here...

but maybe tonight i can experience more astral... should get to sleep
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