Discrimination on the Astral Planes
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 7 years before Jul 23, 2018
MiBeloved 7 years ago
Compulsive behavior and habits on the physical level usually means more of the same on the astral plane. Last night I was dealing with a deceased monk, who without any change, in fact with increase in compulsive behavior moves here and there in the astral world trying to exploit situations and use people to fulfill desires.
People do not improve on their behavior once they are deceased. It usually spirals into an increase in passion and compulsion, with desires getting even more of an upper hand, with reason and analysis almost totally absent. Discrimination is more a human physical body accessory and it hardly feeds over into astral experience.
Discrimination is developed in physical existence because of the challenges one encounters and the opposition put up by gross existence to the fulfillment of compulsive desires. In the astral world there is less opposition and so one goes crazy with the compulsions.
If however one practices restraint and reflection and deep considerations on the physical level, some of that will carry over into the astral planes and one will not be victimized there with a near total lack of discrimination.
Discrimination is an alien feature but it proves to be useful once it is developed in physical existence. It curbs blind sensual selection and helps the person to avoid making many mistakes. Though alien, it is beneficial to one and all.
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Quoting original post: "If however one practices restraint and reflection and deep considerations on the physical level, some of that will carry over into the astral planes and one will not be victimized there with a near total lack of discrimination."
Suryananda’s addendum: Passion an impulse developing source of energy is to be considered counterproductive or even negative, as much as compulsion. However, when they are used during the cycle of our carbon based body life, and assisted with the sense discrimination in order to consolidate a relatively advanced breath infusion practice, accompanied with in-self introspection, they can be even essential in that narrow framework. The conjugated effects of those qualities translate into instincts within the subtle energy body form and can be part of a foundation for continued practice now and in future lives.
