Jain Agam Sahitya

Author(s): K R Chandra
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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plane. (iii) Intermediate Astral Plane is the level at which the person "awakens” minutes or days or months or years after departing from the physical body. The body is still material but of finer substances at a higher vibratory iate. Its appeararce accormodates cach individual's personal form, usually the prime, of life. (iv) Highest Astral Plane is the level, usually known as heaven, where there is no pain or suffering. This is the plane where eventually the soul has to decide whether to return to the earth-plane for more experience or to accept the second death. In case he chooses the latter, the mind and the soul may shade its astral body or containment vehicle and be re-born on to that Causal or Mental Level for which it has been qualified. When re-born, the soul will function in its mental and causal body. (v) Mental and (vi) Causal Plane, offer access to all of the accumulated wisdom of the ages on the earth-plane and throughout other parts of our solar system'. This is the final opportunity to choose to return to the earth-plane or the final re-birth onto the celestial planes. (vii) In Celestial Planes the nature of consciousness is galactical, universal and cosmic, largely beyond the comprehension of those living on the Planet-earth. The celestial planes are the location of the Christian God, of Buddha, of Jaina Tirthankaras called or Hiranyagarbha.
Most of these levels are ever surrounding, and interpenetrating us. Our bodies, and all the material in the universe are more than 99% empty space, and we live in two worlds at the same time. We are functioning not only on the Earth-plane but also in a very lowest and densest portion of the Astral plane. When the physical body dies and the etheric body disintegrates we do not really have to go on a “far journey”. We will be automatically on vibrational level that we deserve to be on, based on the quality of life we have loved while in the physical body. This is the glimpse of the sublime vistas and grandeur of the overall scheme of life which God has created for all of humanity, regardless of race, caste, sex or religion. The blueprint strips away most of the controversial dogmas and creeds which se parate the world's religions;