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(1) Physical body (Rapa) composed of matter in its grossest and most tangible form
(2) Life principle (prana) - a form of force, indestructible
(3) Astral body (Linga Šarlia) - the Double or phantom budy, composed of highly etherealised matter which is electrical and magnetic to its cssence
(4) Passions and desires (Rama rūpa) - It is the centre of animal man,
(5) Miod (Manas) – the intelligence which is the higher human mind, whose light or radiation loks the Spiritual belog to the moral man during life It is the dual priociple to its fonction
(6) Spiritual Soul (Buddhl) - the vehicle of pure universal spirit. (7) Spirit ( ima) - the worversally diffused "divine prlaciple"
Manas reincarnates and carries the results and values of all the different lives on earth It uses the human brain to reason from premises to conclusion Intellect is the lower aspect of man and intuition is the higher aspect The Lower mind retaios all impressions of a life-time and it is involved in the brain with memory and sensation when man dies lower three principles (1) body (2) prana (3) linga fartra leave bum The remzining principles - kama, manas, buddhi and Atma - find themselves 10 an intermediate state called 'hama loka' It is there that the astrals of all beings await second death or further dissolution of the elements The natural acparation of the principles brought about by death would be in throc parts the visible body with all its elements is left to further disintegre. tion on the earth plane
(11) The kama rūpa, made up of the astral body and the passions and desires, begins to disintegrate on the astral plane
(Ill) The real man (the triad of Atma-Buddhl-Marsas) begins a period of Assimilation of the experiences of the life last lived in a purely subjective state analogous to dreaming
The soul may be detained in the kama loka if the desires are unfulfilled The principles will be soon separatod if the man is pure. The bigber principles then will go to the subjective state of Drachan which is a stato of porsonal happiness 10 the real being This will remain entirely on the plane of mind and soul The state of Davachan would be proportionate to tho unexhausted psychic impulses originating in earlier life Those who were greatly attracted to material gains are drawn back to rebirth here
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