A yogi who died before he died
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 7 years before Aug 22, 2018
MiBeloved 7 years ago
Last night due to friendship with a particular person, my subtle body transited to a dimension which is adjacent to this physical world. These places are important to know since usually after the physical body dies one goes to these locations, lives there for a time, and then goes into a state of total loss of objective awareness (call it oneness if you like), and then one wakes up as an embryo which is expelled from a woman’s body as her child.
When astral travelling, one can recognizes these adjacent low level astral regions by their gravitational effect on the subtle body. The subtle body is supposed to float and pass through objects but in these astral regions the subtle body remains put on the ground of those places, just as our present physical forms remain anchored to the earth without any effort on our part.
The mystery of why our physical bodies do not float around like balloons and do not float away from the planet like helium or some other light-weight gas, is explained in science by the term gravity, which is the earth’s pulling force on physical objects which are within a certain distance from the center of the earth.
When astronauts go into outer space, they experience floatation and special accommodations are made for them just to deal with that. In the lower astral world, one finds that one’s body acts like a physical body, but sometimes in such places, one finds that the astral body floats a little like a balloon which is inflated but which has a weighty object within it.
In the astral dimension which I visited, my astral body was able to float when I first entered that place but after a time being there, it felt as if it was very heavy. As soon as I became aware of that, the astral form began to behave like a physical form would on this planet.
The value of such experiences is that it gives the yogi firsthand experience of what he will be facing when his physical body dies. People sometimes make the challenge that they would like to know what it would be like after death. But then they admit that this would be impossible because they assume that no one has returned from death. However there is another way to approach this which is to astral project.
In astral projection, the subtle body or the collection of psychological organs and energies of the person, leaves the body just as it will have to leave at death, with the exception that the astral body comes back into the physical form. At death it will not come back in. It will be permanently left in the astral world with no facility to wake up in this world as Mr. or Mrs. this or that.
The astral place which I entered is not the place I would prefer to go to after the death of this body, and yet I found myself there last night.
Why is this?
Why am I unable to absolutely control where the astral body goes?
Dear Beloved 7 years ago
I've experienced similar dreams or events in the astral world where flying or floating has its limits and once awareness or expectation of gravity takes over, the pulling force gets stronger and inhibits freedom of movement.
