Flaws of the Subtle Body

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Date:  Posted 6 years before Dec 13, 2018

MiBeloved 6 years ago

Dear Michael,

I am not an expert on subtle body. However you seem to contradict yourself.

In your post called Transit from Sleep to Wakefulness you wrote:

The subtle body ends after millions of years, when the subtle energy (prana) which it lives on fizzes out completely.

???

Now you are saying when one ages subtle body suffers.

As far as I understand subtle body suffers because of your karma and not from aging.

Also the prana dissolves when one dies. But you are talking about subtle body living on prana.

This is against my understanding from my teachers which I learned long ago. I might be wrong. But then you are not consistent

I am not an expert in this field, so please don't confuse me. I wish to learn.

MiBeloved's Response:

Satyajit,

Your statement that the subtle body suffers because of karma is true.

But these two statements below are also true for the subtle body. Karma is not the only thing which affects the subtle body.

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Subtle body will end in millions of years, yes!

Subtle body suffers from diseases and other incapacities of the physical body it is connected to as long as it is connected to that physical body psychically.

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When the physical body dies, subtle body no longer picks up ailments from it but the subtle body will carry any ailments which were picked up if those ailments are not cured out of the subtle body.

For instance a person who has diabetes in an acute stage in the physical body will have a similar condition in the subtle body. When the physical form dies, the subtle disease will continue in the subtle form unless something is done to cure it out of that astral body, meaning that when that person takes the next physical form, he or she will have a predisposition to the disease and it will manifest at a very early age in the new physical form on the basis of its presence in the subtle body.

Subtle body is affected by many physical substances like narcotics like marijuana, opium or any anesthesia. This is because these substances have a psychological counterpart. They are both physical and subtle at the same time.