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GUIDELINES FOR AROUSING ENERGY
It needs a very sensitive lense to photograph it. The Kirliyans came to the conclusion that every living body is surrounded by an illuminated atmosphere which comes from the body itself.
Dr. J. C. Trust also took photographs of the aura. On their testimony she hinted that the human body contained something other than itself. This added a new dimension to research. Photographs of the subtle body have also been taken. Photographs of the living body taken just after its death recorded a few bright and dim items on the photographic plate. The bright items were probably the reflection of the taijasa body which is a subtle body. Three things quit the human body after its death : the soul, the karma śarīra and the taijasa śarīra. The last two never get separated from the soul. They remain attached to it until it has become completely emancipated from bondage. They quit the dead body together. They have been with the soul since time immemorial and may remain with it eternally. They will never be estranged from each other. The soul while quitting the dead body will not leave them behind. They will accompany it.
The karma body has not been photographed like the taijasa body. Why is it so ? According to the Jaina doctrine the karma body cannot be photographed. There are three entities : the soul, the subtle body and the gross body. The subtle body is comprised of the taijasa body and the karma body. The soul comes first, then karma body, then the taijasa body and last of all the gross body. The atoms which constitute the gross body are gross atoms. We can have a glimpse of them. The taijasa body is subtler than the gross body and the karma body is still subtler. Then comes the soul which is the subtlest, formless and immaterial. If these bodies and the soul are viewed in an ascending order, we will proceed from the gross to the subtle, from the subtle to the subtler and from the subtler to the subtlest. You can see the gross body. You can also see the taija sa body. It is difficult to perceive the karma body. We may succeed in perceiving the karma body, but it is not possible to perceive the soul because it is formless. The formless cannot be the object of perception. You can see only that which has a form.
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