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ASTRAL BODY
subtle senses, manas, ahamkara act as if without any limitations of space or time. In fact though the images are all taken from the physical world yet the activities specially break all laws of the physical. It is from the analogy of the dream state that the seers tried to liberate the astral body and deal with it directly in yoga. This of course is not so much as known by the Vedantins or even the modern yogins.
Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj has shown how from the very first, one must deal with the astral or karana sarira of the abhyasi and liberate it from the thraldom to its physical gross body. The effect cannot cure the cause but the cause can cure the effect.
Another conception of the astral body may be given from the Indian philosophic standpoint. The antahkarana or internal organ of knowledge is said to comprise the buddhi (intellect), ahamkara (will or egoity) and manas (the principle of distinguishing feelings of pleasure or pain), and the citta (the whole series of modifications which go by the name of ideation, imagination). These also include the functions of memory. But obviously our consciousness as at
present constituted is the awareness that we have of 433






























































































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