Physical to Astral Escape?
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jan 25, 2019
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Email Correspondence:
One who have Social Anxiety which promotes a lot of anxiety and pressure through daily social associations and interactions with people out of will.. how should one deal with that while still keeping a stable practice routine daily? should one just accept it as it is and continue pursuing for spiritual progression?
MiBeloved's Response:
If you can escape from sources of social anxiety you should do so. You would be a fool to remain amidst such influences if you can leave that aside and go elsewhere without dire consequences. It is said that only a fool breaks his own heart. Heart-breaking, or anxiety, and anguish, should arise because of complexities with others but not by the self unto itself.
Actually on some occasions we do act in a way which proves that we took situations which caused us to be heart-broken and depressed. This is mostly due to stupidity.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna encouraged Arjuna to face up to the social anxiety which formed in the Kuru royal family because if Arjuna avoided that he would face dire consequences in his life and in his future lives which would be much worse than trotting through the current situation which faced Arjuna as the dreadful battle of Kurukshetra.
Somehow, you need to determine first of all if those social circumstances are fated, if they were prescribed or are being enforced by fate. If fate is involved then your best bet is to tighten your belt and get in the ring, even if it means a bloody face and a broken jaw.
Better to stand and fight it out to the finish even if you will be beaten to a pulp than to successfully avoid your duty and then find out later that you will be taken to the tower where the torture instruments will be put to use.
And yes, all the while keep practicing yoga, doing meditation and introspecting so that you can use, even the negative experiences, to spur you on and accelerate advancement.
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Email Correspondence:
How will that affect me after I leave this body while still carrying this disorder with me?
MiBeloved's Response:
If you leave the body before you master yoga, Patanjali Yoga, chapter 6 Bhagavad Gita yoga, then you will have to take a body under social circumstances which were afforded to you by providence.
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Email Correspondence:
Will it have any particular pros and cons in the astral realms?
MiBeloved's Response:
Whatever you experience regularly in the astral world right now in dream phases, that same reality you will meet if you leave the physical body. Once you leave the body, your main interest will be to get another body and to associate with relatives and friends.
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Email Correspondence:
Will it make me run away and put me in fight or flight mode from other spirit and beings in the hereafter just like right now in this world?
Where will I escape to in the end?
MiBeloved's Response:
The escape from this world is the astral world. The escape from the astral existence is the physical world. These two locales are like two chambers which are connected via a special transit tubing, so that when you escape from one, you can only transit into the other one and visa versa.
Look at these verses from Bhagavad Gita:
जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्
ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च ।
तस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे
न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥२.२७॥
jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur
dhruvaṁ janma mṛtasya ca
tasmādaparihārye'rthe
na tvaṁ śocitumarhasi (2.27)
jātasya — of that which is born; hi — infact; dhruvo = dhruvaḥ — certain; mṛtyur = mṛtyuḥ — death; dhruvaṁ — certain; janma — birth; mṛtasya — of that which is dead; ca — and; tasmādaparihārye = tasmāt — therefore + aparihārye — in what is unavoidable; 'rthe = arthe — in the assessment; na — not; tvaṁ — you; śocitum — to lament + arhasi — you should
In fact, of that which is born, death is certain; of that which is dead, birth is certain. Therefore in assessing what is unavoidable, you should not lament. (2.27)
अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि
व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत ।
अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव
तत्र का परिदेवना ॥२.२८॥
avyaktādīni bhūtāni
vyaktamadhyāni bhārata
avyaktanidhanānyeva
tatra kā paridevanā (2.28)
avyaktādīni = avyakta — undetected + ādīni- beginnings of a manifestation; bhūtāni — living beings; vyakta madhyāni = vyakta — visible + madhyāni — interim states; bhārata — O descendant of Bharata; avyakta nidhanāny eva = avyakta — undetected + nidhanāni — ends of a manifestation + eva — again; tatra — there; kā — what; paridevanā — complaint
The living beings are undetected in the beginning of a manifestation, visible in the interim stages, and are again undetected at the end of a manifestation. What is the complaint? (2.28)
