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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
preta, and pisacha. These are the two levels for which we have doctors to attend their ailments if any.
Now the astral body is the karana sareera, it is the one which really gives us the shape and form of the Physical body. It is the discharge of our karma that decides the form we take at birth. The need for executing a particular type of function decides the form of the instrument and the instrumentation is accordingly. There are different screwdrivers for different tasks and so it is for other instruments. Similarly the physical body is structured to suit the purpose of life that the karana sarira dictates. A person who evolves upto this level knows his attitudes and aptitudes to life clearly. They are the Samskaras that form the Karana sarira. Samskaras give however only few of those attitudes and aptitudes we have learnt during this lifetime while we are growing up with our parents and others. Several ideas they have added to you. We start owning up some, we disown some. We make some sort by selection. All of the ideas suggested are put together, and then we form an idea as to what we want and say. This is not necessarily what our physical or psychological environment gives us, but these inputs modify the mode and method of
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