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The Physical Body After Death February 19,
1971 I have a questions about the physical body after death. In India it is custom to burn the physical body some hours after dying, and we, in the West, have to wait three days and them the body is put into a tomb or burned. Is there a difference? We are told the body should be so long out of the ground and should not be burned before three days. . . . . May I give you
an example? I think you will understand more fully then. The child in the womb
is covered with a screen. When that breaks and the child is born, that very
screen still goes on moving as though seeking the child within the womb. So
that is a naturally formed habit. So, scientifically speaking , the more the
objects of the body in which soul lived is there –(the longer it remains), the
more the soul is attracted, unless he has been quite cutoff while in life. if
he was cutoff, then he will feel, “All right, I left it, go on.” Sometimes at
night you'll find in the burial grounds some spirit hovering around the tombs.
These are only such souls which are
spirits, groveling around the earth as they have not been together cut
off from the world. Do you follow me? so, scientifically speaking, the object
of attraction should be finished off. But these are customs. Cremation has a
scientific basis. You are living in the body so dear to you, and you have to
leave it by force, you will still be attracted to that body. But the one who
knows how to leave the body at will and has no attachments to it, won't be
attracted. But how many are they’re who
are developed like that? So, any way, the body should be cremated, finished
off. Otherwise, those who are attached to the body will hover. Have you read
theosophical literature? Not much. Yes, read it.
good things, great things are explained sometimes. So, if you have not cut off
the things of attraction while alive you'll be attracted to those things after
death. So such like spirit go groveling around the earth. When their wishes are
not met with, they will just enter others to enjoy, you see? That is called
spiritism. Spiritualism is contact with spirits are on a little higher level.
They don’t hover around but they can be called. So we must transcend,
physically, astrally, and go ahead. Each man has his own custom, some reason
for it. customs remain. In India, there's place where they keep bodies for day
and days together. Relatives put some incense into the dead bodies and they
dance and eat to the heavens or the hell? In this way they are enjoying for
days together. This takes place on the Burma side, the Kabul side. So it is better
to be cut off the physical world. At will leave it. it is just the clothes
which have been taken off, that’s all. There are many reasons why you should
meditate. I was talking yesterday about it also. But these things are not given
in books. References are made there but are not clarified. We can thankful to
the body, “All right, thanks to you, I have made the best use of you and you
have helped me.” that’s all right. Thank God, “thank you.” Go up. So physical
body is like a good horse to ride on, you see. When you have made the best use
of something, leave it. That’s all right. So due to customs, you see. Lay thy
treasures in heaven. You know why? The house in the other world is stronger
than the house of this world? Here the ants will eat you at death. This is what
you can infer from that exact quotation, “Lay thy treasures in heaven- where it
will not be eaten by ants.” This is a reply
to your question. So it is the custom, you see. The more you are attached, even
after leaving the body you'll be groveling. I've seen souls like that. They're
worldly and they won't go away if their body is still here –they come back
again and again. But these people do not know what happens after death. So any
object of attraction should be finished off. In the graveyard, if you go at
night, you'll sometimes find something hovering in the air. Only such like
souls who are spirit not withdrawn from the body, enamored of the body. They
will come around and around and round and they will possess. They will enter
drunkards. When a man becomes a drunkard, he is not the one drinking you see,
he's become mad, possessed. That is what Christ meant when he said the spirit
was withdrawn. He freed the earthbound spirit. We’ve got a man
body. When you have got a taste of the Beyond then there's nothing here to
compare with that. So it is just like the dirty cloths you drop off. You’ve
made the best use of it, “All right, thank you body, you have helped me. after
all, it is not our choice to live in the body. We live only up to the time; thy
days are numbered. Thy breaths are numbered based on the reactions of the past.
You have to leave. Your body may be requesting you not to leave and you may be
attached to it, but you will have to leave. Is it not so? Laws are based on
common sense. Common sense of the awakened man. does what I have said not
appeal to you? If you are detached from the object of attraction to which you
have been given up heart and soul, naturally you'll leave it. if you have
learned to leave the body at will and enjoy the other world, nothing can
attract you back. If you do leave the body while in that angle of vision, then
there is nothing to bind you. It is just as though you go out of this room, you
don’t change, but you are there. The attachments real at heart. So all this
ignorance arises out of what? Wrong understanding. We are not body but we have
been identified with the body so much so that we cannot differentiate. Now you
are awake, “I'm making use of this body.” Then? The whole angle of vision is
changed. This delusion starts from the body. You're embodied in the body;
you're embodied souls, not the body. But you are identified with the body so
much so that you have forgotten yourself. You see things from the level of the body. Your body is changing, being
made of matter. The whole world is changing but you think, “Oh all, all is
static, stagnant, stationary.” So the basic reason for ignorance is that. All
through the day do you even once think that you are not the body. Then? Really
you are not the body. There is a
custom among Hindus too. The body is kept there for so long and then, further,
he gets new clothing there, this and that. For whom? For those who are hovering
around the world, for those who have not transcend physical plane, for those
who have not transcend casual plane. For those , the whole thing goes on. The
on which you have been put will enable you to go Beyond that, but the ABC starts only when you rise above body
consciousness . now do you feel the necessity for meditation? How important it
is and how much ignored it is. this is the very private, most private work for
you and for your own self. So some
questions lead you to so many thins,
you see. Customs are there, that’s all right. Those are for the average,
every day people. But as a man you have to go higher. Those who have got more
and are imbued with the love of God leave with no love for the world. you'll
see for yourself that you have the body; you are not the body. This is just
coming out of the delusion. Practically speaking, when you rise above body
consciousness you see you are not the body. First is assumption , the other is
seeing, is it not? Rise above body consciousness daily. You will see that you
are not the body. In that way, if you are convinced, then naturally all your
actions will be formed the level of the soul. So all of these points will give
a big book, will they not? There lived in
India swami shivbratlal, a disciple of Raj saligram, who was advanced in
approach but he gives out all these things about which I am now referring, in
story form. He would bring out these very teachings of the Master in some novel
like form in the Urdu language, of course, not in English, he did a splendid
work, having brought out two, three thousands books, I think. Somewhere he
takes the soul as a prince so that he may bring out a story with all these teaching give here. he did a very
wonderful work. He has now passed away. He loved me much. I loved Him too. He
loved Master too. In all love, you see, he wrote many stories like that. Novels
–very interesting –in which all these teaching so the Saint were included –give
out. That will draw many people to the truth. This is giving something like ,
(excuse me, I give a very bad example now), putting quinine in sugar coated
form: in the form of stories. That will take away your fever, will it not? I'm
talking to you practically now, you can
help the world in so many ways, you see, but don’t do it at your own scarifies,
mind that. Then your own house is on fire are you going to put down fire of
other houses? It is good to put down the afire of others but you have also to mind your own. All right, this questions
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