Hereafter ~ Roles/Controls

There is this deep-seated urge to remain in control, to be at the top of the game as a mature adult around whom circumstances are favorably swirling so as to keep on fulfilling the social self as a center of attention, as head-honcho in some way or the other, in the family, society, nation and world, or just in the family alone as the youthful father or mother with rights over children, demands for conjugality fulfilled, residency established and finances sufficient.

This type of desire continues in the afterlife whereby a person continues to exercise control there, either to fail in the expression of psychic influence or to succeed by roping in whoever is required to keep things in a way which is compatible to the social self.

In the astral world, I was with a deceased couple, whom I knew in the teen aged years. Both of them were about the age of my mother and father when I knew them while they used the last physical bodies. Now they are in the astral world struggling to wield control over their surviving children. The deceased man was at an astral building which is the astral counterpart to one he built in the past life. He had his sons there but their subtle forms assumed teen aged appearance just as when I was with them early on in this lifetime. The father wanted them to do some cleaning and rearranging but they were resistant as teen aged children are, being reluctant to do anything else besides bleeding out their parents for money and services.

The man’s subtle body was invisible even to subtle eyes but his influence was definite and sure. It applied a pressure to the subtle forms of his sons so as to change their forms into the teen aged version where the father would wield the desired control.

This means that even after dying, the departed soul goes to the hereafter with the same social egocentric mentality which he or she has before while the physical body died. He or she wants to continue as the center of the attention, the origin of desires, and the person around whom everything occurs. But more serious for the concern of the yogi, is that this points to the subtle body as the culprit.

The subtle body intends to remain centralized in the physical world in a choice position with choice status and with all persons and things which would be required to booster the sense of security.

In this desire system of the subtle body, there is a need for children, because children are seen as just that, innocent entities. There is no idea of reincarnation, no insight into the past life of the infant who becomes the child.

Repeated I found that people insist on no interference into their idea of the child being just a child. Even persons who say that they accept reincarnation through belief or through realization or both, consistently treat children as children and do not show any understanding about the past life of the infant in dealing with the child,

There is this inborn need to treat the infant as just an infant. There is a satisfaction in that, which is so fulfilling that it completely negates any idea about reincarnation except superficially and with lip service to the information we get from texts like the Bhagavad Gita.

The man wants to be sure that he has a wife.

The woman want to be sure that she has a husband.

Each wants to be perpetual.

Each is distressed when he or she cannot have this.

These desires continue hereafter and are reinstated afresh in the next life when the next body is acquired, with the infant body growing into young adulthood, and that changing into mature adult with family with the same grasp for power in the social way.