Part 72 (1/2)
”My son!” Master spoke tenderly, on his face an angel-bewitching smile
For the first ti but instantly advanced to gather hiuish of past ainst the torrential bliss now descending
”Master mine, beloved of my heart, why did you leave me?” I was incoherent in an excess of joy ”Why did you let o to the ku you!”
[Illustration: KRISHNA, ANCIENT PROPHET OF INDIA, A modern artist's conception of the divine teacher whose spiritual counsel in the Bhagavad Gita has become the Hindu Bible Krishna is portrayed in Hindu art with a peacock feather in his hair (sy a flute, whose enrapturing notes awaken the devotees, one by one, fro]
”I did not want to interfere with your happy anticipation of seeing the pilgrie spot where first I met Babaji I left you only for a little while; aain?”
”But is it YOU, Master, the sa a body like the one I buried beneath the cruel Puri sands?”
”Yes, my child, I ah I see it as ethereal, to your sight it is physical From the cosmic atoms I created an entirely new body, exactly like that cosmic-dream physical body which you laid beneath the dream-sands at Puri in your dream-world I am in truth resurrected-not on earth but on an astral planet Its inhabitants are better able than earthly humanity to meet my lofty standards There you and your exalted loved ones shall souru, tell ave a quick, mirthful chuckle ”Please, dear one,” he said, ”won't you relax your hold a little?”
”Only a little!” I had been erip
I could detect the sarant, natural odor which had been characteristic of his body before The thrilling touch of his divine flesh still persists around the inner sides of lorious hours
”As prophets are sent on earth to help men work out their physical karma, so I have been directed by God to serve on an astral planet as a savior,” Sri Yukteswar explained ”It is called HIRANYALOKA or 'Illus to rid themselves of astral karma and thus attain liberation frohly developed spiritually; all of them had acquired, in their last earth-incarnation, thetheir physical bodies at death No one can enter Hiranyaloka unless he has passed on earth beyond the state of SABIKALPA SAMADHI into the higher state of NIRBIKALPA SAMADHI {FN43-1}
”The Hiranyaloka inhabitants have already passed through the ordinary astral spheres, where nearly all beings froo at death; there they worked out many seeds of their past actions in the astral worlds None but advanced beings can perform such redemptive work effectually in the astral worlds Then, in order to free their souls ed in their astral bodies, these higher beings were drawn by cosmic law to be reborn with new astral bodies on Hiranyaloka, the astral sun or heaven, where I have resurrected to help thes on Hiranyaloka who have come from the superior, subtler, causal world”
My uru's that he was conveying his word-pictures to ht-transference I was thus quickly receiving his idea-tabloids
”You have read in the scriptures,” Master went on, ”that God encased the human soul successively in three bodies-the idea, or causal, body; the subtle astral body, seat of ross physical body On earth aworks with his consciousness and feelings and a bodyremains in the blissful reals who are preparing to enter the causal world”
”Adorable Master, please tell htly relaxed my embrace at Sri Yukteswar's request, my aruru who had laughed at death to reachwith astral beings,” Master began ”The inhabitants use astral planes, or ht, to travel from one planet to another, faster than electricity and radioactive energies
”The astral universe, ht and color, is hundreds of tier than the s like a little solid basket under the huge luminous balloon of the astral sphere Just as many physical suns and stars roam in space, so there are also countless astral solar and stellar systems Their planets have astral suns and moons, more beautiful than the physical ones The astral luminaries resethan the er than those of earth
”The astral world is infinitely beautiful, clean, pure, and orderly There are no dead planets or barren lands The terrestrial blemishes--weeds, bacteria, insects, snakes-are absent Unlike the variable climates and seasons of the earth, the astral planets , with occasional luhts Astral planets abound in opal lakes and bright seas and rainbow rivers
”The ordinary astral universe-not the subtler astral heaven of Hiranyaloka-is peopled with s who have come, more or less recently, from the earth, and also with no on different astral planets in accordance with karions are provided for good and evil spirits Good ones can travel freely, but the evil spirits are confined to lis live on the surface of the earth, worms inside the soil, fish in water, and birds in air, so astral beings of different grades are assigned to suitable vibratory quarters
”Aels expelled from other worlds, friction and war take place with lifetronic bos dwell in the gloo out their evil karma
”In the vast real and beautiful The astral cosmos is more naturally attuned than the earth to the divine will and plan of perfection Every astral object is manifested primarily by the will of God, and partially by the will-call of astral beings They possess the power ofalready created by the Lord He has given His astral children the freedo at will the astral cosmos On earth a solid h natural or cheed into astral liquids, gases, or energy solely and instantly by the will of the inhabitants
”The earth is dark arfare and uru continued, ”but the astral reals dematerialize or materialize their forms at will Flowers or fish or animals can metamorphose thes are free to assuether No fixed, definite, natural law hems them round-any astral tree, for exao or other desired fruit, flower, or indeed any other object Certain karmic restrictions are present, but there are no distinctions in the astral world about desirability of various forht
”No one is born of woh the help of their cosmic will into specially patterned, astrally condensed for arrives in an astral fah invitation, drawn by similar mental and spiritual tendencies
”The astral body is not subject to cold or heat or other natural conditions The anatomy includes an astral brain, or the thousand-petaled lotus of light, and six awakened centers in the SUSHUMNA, or astral cerebro-spinal axis The heart draws cosht from the astral brain, and pumps it to the astral nerves and body cells, or lifetrons Astral beings can affect their bodies by lifetronic force or by MANTRIC vibrations