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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
fundamentals of Viveka, which every person should know.
Now having achieved this ethereal body there is one more binding force or body that we have got, which goes by the name of “astral” or sookshma sarira. I do not know how many of you know this. The gross or physical body, bhoutika sareera, we share almost with all living beings. The next body called as Prana or Bhuta sareera exists because of the fulfilled and unfulfilled wishes. Wishes, actually unfulfilled wishes at the end of the termination of the body continue to exist. Since they continue to exist, float around, they are seen generally as ghosts, spirits; that is their level. It is nothing to do with atma, nothing to do with soul, it is one of the earliest levels of body. If you put the question do they exist? They exist. They do exist because many people have got enormous amount of unexhausted anger and enormous amount of unfulfilled desires. They would like to take vindictive or retaliatory action against somebody else. They try to see that it is executed, all sorts of things, both good and bad things. Generally this redressal is taken care of by the vaidhikis, brahmins, by conducting a particular ceremony. It is “preta sarira.” This is called as bhuta,
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