Death Before During and After

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

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During, Before and After Death
During, Before and After Death
The Electrical Body
The soul alone does not leave the body. The causal body composed of all the karmas and the electrical body leaves together with the soul at the moment of death. As long as there is worldly life, the electrical body will be present in every living being. The electrical body is always present when the causal body is formed. Every living being has an electrical body, which carries out the natural bodily functions, such as digestion and circulation etc. The electrical body is also responsible for your vision and other physiologic activities. The soul does not have any anger, pride, attachment or greed. These anger, pride, attachment and greed are all mediated through the electrical body, although they are carried forward through the causal body.
Questioner: So is the electrical body active in the process of charging karma?
Dadashri: Karmas are only charged if the electrical body is present. Nothing will work in the absence of the electrical body and the same applies to the soul. Even if the soul was absent, but the electrical body was there, it would not work either. These are all a collection of causes.
When Does Life Enter a Womb? Questioner: Life only comes into existence when it takes a breath. That is what is written in the Vedas.
Dadashri: No, such statements are not based on experience. They are not true. That understanding is a worldly understanding. An embryo never develops without the presence of a life. Prior to that it is like an egg, it remains in a state of dormancy.
Questioner: Does life enter the egg of a chicken through a
hole?
Dadashri: No, that is all worldly thinking. Such statements are written because of inadequate understanding. For the embryo to form multiple evidences are necessary, including time. These are all scientific circumstantial evidences.
Life matures during the nine months it lives in the womb. At seven months, it is considered premature; the brain, the limbs and all other organs are inadequately developed. So a baby born at seven months is considered premature because it has not developed fully. And those which are born at eighteen months - they are something else! They have extraordinary brains. Those, which go beyond nine months, have a very highly developed brain.
What's wrong? Did you not know that? Why are you not saying anything? Have you heard the saying, "This baby is eighteen months old"? Have you not heard such a saying? They'll say he is very smart; he would not come out of his mother's womb - for eighteen months he carried on pompously!
Time Between Births
Questioner: How long does it take for the soul to leave one body and enter another?
Dadashri: No time at all. As it is leaving one body, it is also simultaneously present in another womb. This occurrence is in concurrence with the moment of the union of the sperm and the egg. When the time comes for the soul to depart from one body, the circumstances and the event at the other end is also taking place the reception of the soul. Therefore after the body's death the soul goes directly into another embryo. So there is no need to worry about what may happen in the time ahead. After death another womb is acquired and upon entering that womb, all the