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ASTRAL BODY
In the general treatment of the Astral Body there seems to be some kind of doubt as to its nature and existence. Does every man possess an astral body? If so, is it located in space and time or within the body or outside the body, or is it an inseparable part of the body. In what senses is it a body.
These questions and many more crop up whenever we try to deal with the subject.
Every person possesses the astral body which gives a reading of the psychic condition of the individual soul. It is a near body as contrasted with the physical/gross body. When the gross body dies, the astral body is said to be the transmigrating one along with the soul. But it does also go away when the individual soul gets rid of the karmas and vasanas and trishnas absolutely. Indeed it is a karana sarira in the sense that once this forms then the rest of the formations follow. Since it dissolves (siryate) or falls to pieces ultimately it is a sarira or body. Thus it is called karana sarira.
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