Aptavani 01

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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163 The luster of wealth : It originates from the aristocratic life of affluence, ease and happiness.
The luster of dharma : It radiates from the soul of the one who lives a religious and righteous life.
The luster of knowledge : It radiates from acquiring relative knowledge through learning different teachings or scriptures.
The luster of celibacy (brahmcharya): It emanates from the practice of celibacy.
The luster of all these four emanates from the subtle body, the electric body.
At the moment of the union of a mother's ovum and a father's sperm, the effective body is created. What is a jiva? That which lives and dies is jiva. When the jiva dies, it carries with it the subtle body and the causal body. The mind, the intellect, the chit and the ego are freed here. The causal body that is carried forward will give rise to a new effective body. The effective body, created by the union of mother's ovum and father's sperm, prepares its own sustenance and thus a tuber (embryo) is created. A jiva cannot survive without sustenance even for a minute. If there is no food, it takes at least air or water.
This electrical body is the same as the tejas body and the subtle body. It digests food and produces heat and energy. It keeps the blood circulating. The entire machinery of the body works because of its minute network of inter-connections reaching all parts of the body. If there is any karmic deficiency, it will result in certain physical ailments e.g. the stomach will lack in digestive power from infancy. It is the electrical body, within the physical body, that really carries out the bodily functions but the gross external body cannot grasp it and that is why it eventually becomes weak. The subtle body in every one is the
same. The shape of your body was already designed in the past life and that is the causal body. The gross physical body that you acquire is the effective body. Any part of the body that becomes above or below normal, is the part that becomes a problem and suffers. From this one can deduce where the problem (disease) came from and why.
The causal body can be understood. It comes into being at the time of birth, from the time of its inception in the womb. Attachment and abhorrence (raag and dwesh) begin from the moment breathing starts. Attachment and abhorrence attract atoms. Vitaragta (absence of attachment and abhorrence) does not. The attraction of these atoms produces the causal body. The physical body you see today is the causal body from the past life. The Gnani Purush can visualize the causal body and has so much spiritual power that he can prevent the formation of a new causal body. He can put a stop to it so that a new causal body is not created.
When the Soul separates from the body, it carries with it the causal body; merit (punya) and de-merit (paap) karma too go with it. On the strength of punya, one acquires a beautiful symmetrical body and happiness. Because of paap one will acquire an asymmetrical, deformed body. When the Soul leaves the body, the subtle body and the causal body remain together and when the scientific circumstantial evidences of atoms of the causal and the subtle body come together, the gross physical body will come into formation. At death, when the Soul leaves the body, in less than a fraction of time, it arrives at its destination predetermined by vyavasthit, and upon the union of the father's sperm and the mother's ovum, it attains a body. The Soul at that time is completely compressed. It does not leave the existing body until the new body is ready for it. Because of its property of elasticity, it stretches its one end to the new effective body while the other end is still anchored to the old body. It only