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aiya veediki’. The reason for that is their bhavas, their aspirations, their ambitions continue at a higher level. At the ethereal level it is baser and vindictive. At the astral level it is higher aspiration.
The aspiration levels are different. The Ethereal is absolutely emotional. True, behavioural aspirations and higher aspirations enable us to move up. Not only that there are also certain aspirations which are not very conducive to the society, social well being, global well being, come under the category asuric. The daivic ones are good for others. That is why Bhagavan Krishna classifies people as daivic and asuric and says to Arjuna that he belongs to daivic. If he is a daivic, and that is by birth then how is it that Dhrutarashtra’s son is asuric? If we go by only the community or by caste or the genealogy, it will not fit in. The reason for that is his samskaras are daivic, and the other persons are asuric. This is not the physical body, which He is referring to. This is the astral body by which we start already having connection with something higher.
But we are not exactly having connection with higher. We do have some connection, otherwise those positive thoughts will not arise in us. We are born for a
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