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sleep. He therefore concludes he is the ever- conscious witness and therefore separate identity.
It is necessary for us to note what happens at the point of death. It is seen that as the physical forces wane, all the gross and subtle energy goes into the mental and emotional astral body. If the person was prepared for death, sudden or otherwise, his mental and emotional astral body would have already been well schooled in readiness. It is considered that sudden death to such a soul is a boon and a blessing. At physical veiling/death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies, and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension. The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It may be noted that it is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral” worlds during sleep every night.
When the physical body dies, this automatically severs the subtle connection that exists between the astral and physical bodies. This connecting membrane /cord are of the nature of
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