Deceased Yogi in the Astral Night

A deceased friend mentioned to me recently that after passing he found himself to be in the astral night, where there was no sunshine but the place was continually in a glow lighting like night on earth outdoors, during first or last quarter of the moon.

However when he would come to do breath infusion practice sessions with me, he found that he could perceive the astral sun which is the corresponding luminary to the physical sun which we are familiar with.

According to the Bhagavad Gita, those people who pass away under the influence of the moon primarily, go the way of the ancestors which means that they must take another embryo and cannot do anything but that. While those who pass away under the influence of the sun primarily, go the way of the supernatural beings, deities, whereby they do not return but go to higher astral planes.

In India, the convention for a brahmin is to worship the sun god three times daily, at sunrise, sun apex and sunset. Some text say four times daily, adding midnight. However for a yogi it is the subtle body of the sun which is important. It is the astral energy from the sun which is infused into the subtle body which is the subject of interest. This is because a yogi should shift focus to the subtle plane of consciousness while using the physical body, so that later when that body becomes unavailable, the yogi already cultivated a footing into the subtle terrain.