Heaven: Christian/Vedic
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before May 27, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Query: Is the subtle body a hybrid of sorts, made of some kind of spiritual reality plus the added influence and Karma of past lives?
MiBeloved’s Response:
Subtle body is not a spiritual body but it is not the material body either. And since it lasts for the duration of the manifested universe, that means that in reference to the physical body it can be called a spiritual body.
To a virus which might live for 3 hours and then die, a human lifetime is an eternity. It just cannot imagine that much time. So in reference to the physical form the subtle body is eternal even though it is limited to the duration of the universe as its maximum time span.
The spiritual world of divine beings is not the astral world.
Okay, so once I make that clear, we can discuss your realization and say that the subtle body a hybrid of sorts, made of some kind of “psychological” reality plus the added influence and karma of past lives.
So here psychological means something which is not gross, and that would include things like microwave radiation even.
In the Christian religion there are basically four locations, or existential places, namely:
Earth
Heaven
Hell
Purgatory
But in the Hindu (Vedic) religions there are these plus more:
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Several levels of heaven.
Causal plane beyond all astral planes.
Brahman effulgence all-spiritual energy.
Spiritual World with people, places and things (Vaikuntha, Akshar Dham, Krishnaloka, Shivaloka).
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In Christianity there is one heaven where God is there with angels etc. In Hinduism there are several heavens and some are higher than others. These are controlled by deities, specific ones.
While in Christianity God is in heaven. In Hinduism only gods are in heaven and the God, the Supreme Person is in the spiritual world which is a totally different place.
I am just stating this to show how it is not easy to explain the Vedic information within the Christian context.
