Subtle human bodies, their shape and structure, and their relationship with health. Subtle bodies Theory about the human physical body

THE SEVEN BODIES OF HUMAN

Bodies that make up the soul.

A person consists of 7 bodies with different frequencies of energy vibrations, different densities (degrees of materiality). These bodies seem to enter into each other. Due to the difference in vibration frequencies, they exist in different planes of the universe.
1 body - physical;
2nd body - ethereal;
3rd body - astral;
4 body - mental;
5, 6, 7 bodies - relate directly to our Higher Self.

The energy fields of living beings have a complex composition: almost all forms of energy known to physics are found in them, as well as hitherto unknown ones.

The energy field of a living organism is called a biofield or aura.

AURA is an energetic glow around the physical body. The range of colors in which it is painted is much wider than can be seen with the human eye. You can see all the color diversity of a person’s aura only with the help of the 3rd eye, that is, clairvoyance.

The aura forms an egg-shaped energy shell around the human physical body, with its blunt end facing upward. The aura of an ordinary person occupies approximately 70-100 centimeters in space.

Each energy body has an energy field (each organ has its own aura).

The connection of the physical body with the outside world and with the cosmos cannot be carried out directly; it is carried out through subtle bodies.

Physical body- material, dense body - consists of a huge number of cells. Complexes of homogeneous cells form tissues and organs. All organs are penetrated by a group of cells that provide nutritional and respiratory functions. A cell has a certain lifespan and then dies or divides.

Etheric body- is an exact copy of the physical body, serves to maintain the shape of the physical body. It is also a connecting link between the astral and physical bodies. Its color is weakly luminous, from transparent gray to violet-blue, or milky yellow. The physical body receives energy with the help of the etheric body. The etheric body departs from the physical body at a distance of 1 to 5 centimeters.

The body in which the process of emotions and desires takes place. It is four-dimensional and vibrates so quickly that it becomes invisible to the physical senses of vision, its existence cannot be proven using traditional physics. The astral body is slightly larger than the physical body and extends 7-20 centimeters beyond its contours. Around the head there is a yellow halo, which expresses mental activity, while the red color symbolizes vital activity and is localized around the genitals.

Intelligent, highly developed beings have astral bodies that pulsate in different color spectrums, depending on their state of mind. The silver thread, which is mentioned in the Bible, is the connecting link between the physical, etheric and astral bodies. At the moment of death, the silver thread breaks. During sleep, the astral body can, regardless of the will of a person, leave the physical body and travel in other dimensions (in an invisible space for a person while awake).

Mental body- has an ovoid shape, and consists of finer matter than the astral body. It forms a light sparkling aura. This is the body of thought, and it permeates all subsequent bodies. It is home to what we humans call will and thought. The mental body extends beyond the physical body by 20 to 30 centimeters. The mental body builds a plan for our actions and guides the rational side of our essence. The release of the mental body occurs only in a state of deep sleep.

The physical, etheric, astral and mental bodies are temporary and are not an integral part of the human essence.

MAN AND HIS MORTAL BODIES

The worlds in which a person develops as he enters the circle of births and deaths: physical, astral (transitional), mental (heavenly).

In these three worlds he lives from birth to death in his waking, daytime consciousness; in the last two worlds he lives from birth to death during sleep and for some time after death; he enters the heavenly world occasionally, during sleep, in a state of deep trance, and in it he spends the most important part of his posthumous life. Moreover, this time lengthens as it evolves.

All 3 bodies in which a person manifests himself in these worlds are mortal: they are born and die, and they also improve with each new life, becoming an increasingly worthy instrument for the revealing Spirit. They are copies made of solid matter - those immortal spiritual guides who do not change at birth and death, and form the cover of the spirit in the Higher Worlds. Where the individual arrives as a "spiritual" person, whereas here on Earth, he lives as a physical (dense) person.

The 3 mortal bodies of man are physical, astral and mental. They are connected to each other by the energy worlds in which they live.

IMMORTAL HUMAN BODIES

“Heavenly Dwelling” - built from the immortal shells of human essence. GOD created man for incorruptibility and made him “the image of His Eternal Existence.” We call this spirit the Monad, for it is the true essence of self-existence. When the Monad descends into matter in order to spiritualize it, it appropriates to itself an atom from the Higher Worlds. In order to lay the core of your 3 Higher Bodies. - Atmic, Buddhic and Monadic. Particles from each of the 3 lower worlds are attached to them through the buddhic substance so that a core from the 3 lower bodies of man can arise. Over the course of many centuries, the Spirit overshadows its mortal bodies, they are illuminated by its life. While those slowly rise from the mineral kingdom to the plant kingdom, then to the animal kingdom, etc.

Compounds of substances from the Higher Worlds of the Spirit begin to manifest themselves in the Higher Worlds, and then the animal form of existence reaches that point of development when the evolution of life strives to rise and merge with the Higher Life. Then the Spirit sends, in response to her aspiration, the beating of his own life, and at this decisive moment the mental body of a person is born - like a spark that flared up between coals (an arc element). From this moment, a person is individualized for life in the Higher Worlds.

5, 6, 7 the bodies of the human essence together form the eternal part, that is, his Spirit. These three bodies can be called - karmic, intuitive and causal.

Karmic body- the body of the cause of all actions within a person is the body of the Will. The karmic body contains all the memory of a person’s past incarnations, this is the body of Knowledge. It controls all functions of the cosmic organism and is associated with the blue chakra (vidshuddha). Separates from the physical body at a distance of 40-50 centimeters.

Intuitive body (buddhic)- belongs to the second manifested world, the world of pure spiritual wisdom, knowledge and love. Sometimes it is called the “Body of Christ” because it is this that is born into activity at the first great initiation. It develops to the full measure of the age of Christ, up to 33 years. On the way of its maturation, it emanates energies full of holiness, compassion and selfless and tender love for all living things in the Universe. While in a meditative state, we can enter into spiritual ecstasy, precisely in this body.
The intuitive body is separated from the physical body at a distance of up to 65 centimeters, and is associated with the blue chakra (3rd eye - Ajna).

Casual body (monadic)- is the conductor of the Law of Causality, the Supreme Mind. Which is capable of perceiving abstractions of natural knowledge, through which a person knows the truth by intuitive thinking, and not through reasoning. Moreover, from the lower mind, it borrows its rationalistic methods only in order to establish in the earthly consciousness abstract truths that it itself knows. The person enclosed in this body is called EGO, and when the body merges directly with the next Higher body (buddhic), then the person receives the name spiritual EGO. After which, he begins to realize his own Divinity. It develops through abstract thinking. It can be strengthened by intense meditation, impartiality and subordination of instinct - the Will, directed to selfless service.

By its nature, the monadic body has a tendency towards isolation, being an instrument of individualization. Therefore, it must grow strong and resistant in order to impart the necessary stability to the spiritual body with which it must merge into one.

These are the immortal bodies of man, which are not subject to either birth or death. Namely, they give continuity of memory, which is the very essence of individuality. They are the treasury in which everything worthy of immortality is preserved; nothing unclean or evil can enter them. They are the permanent residence of the Spirit. In them the promise is fulfilled. For you are the Temple of the Living God - as the Lord said: “I will dwell in them and walk in them” (Coref.VI-10). It is they who justify the Hindu’s jubilant cry: “I am Thou.”

The energy of the causal body consists of the totality of all human chakras. The casual body is protected by a fairly strong shell, 10 to 12 centimeters thick, it is very strong, but at the same time, elastic. This is the densest auric layer.

ENERGY BODY

The human energy body arises from concentrated cosmic energy at the moment of synthesis of two energy bodies; egg and germ cell. Its structure is determined to a large extent by the cosmoenergetic constellation prevailing at that moment (which explains the influence of the location of the planets and biorhythmic proportions at the moment of conception).

From its very origins, the body has a connection with the content of the cosmos. Consciousness and archaic subconscious (the phenomenon of reincarnation). Immediately after its emergence, the energy body begins, through the subconscious, to transmit information to the material body for its structural structure.

The energy body receives energy to maintain its mental functions from free cosmic energy, which it can directly perceive with the help of the so-called chakras. In a transformed form, it gives part of this energy to the material body as “vital” energy.

The energy body also receives information from the surrounding world through the chakras in the form of cosmic energy impulses. These impulses and information coming from consciousness accumulate in the subconscious and are processed there. Inside the energy body, information impulses are transmitted through the system of Nadis (Indian), or meridians (Chinese). Since the cosmoenergetic distribution system of the energy body through bioenergetic interaction is connected with the primary plexuses of the material body, which at any time can be transferred to the material body by cosmic energy as life energy. Thus, a direct impact on the material organism through cosmoenergetic impulses is possible.

The energy body is immortal. It existed before birth, and after the death of a person it is separated from his material body in order to exist further as an integral part of cosmic consciousness (therefore, contacts with the dead are possible).

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Below is information from Osho about the 7 human bodies, with a detailed description.

7 human bodies There are esotericists of varying degrees of materiality. Like a cocoon, subtle bodies wrap around the visible, physical. A few centimeters above human skin is the etheric body, connecting between the physical and astral bodies. Above the astral body is the mental body. The next three are causal, budhial and atmanic. Now let's look at them in more detail and in order.

So, here they are - our legs and arms, ears, hair and eyes. Our physical body. It is intended for activities in the physical world. Manifests himself through actions. Its beauty or, conversely, “ugliness” is determined, among other things, by our behavior in past lives. His illnesses are directly related to permanent or temporary defects of the more highly organized “subtle” bodies. An important conclusion that follows from this: a serious physical illness will not respond to simple symptomatic treatment, because the root cause of the “karmic” illness is beyond the reach of traditional medicine.

The etheric body is a copy of the physical body and serves to maintain its form. It transmits to the physical the impulses of neighboring, more highly organized bodies: the astral and mental. Some esotericists define its color as a faintly luminous purple. Energy, prana, descends to the physical body through the etheric. With age, the ability of the etheric body to conduct energy weakens, and the physical body undergoes changes called aging.

Some devices are capable of recording the etheric body: a well-known experiment, when a torn leaf of a plant can be seen whole with their help, according to some researchers, confirms the existence of an invisible etheric body in every living creature.

The astral body is the body of emotions and desires. Those psychics who “see the aura” consider precisely the astral body of a person. “Seers” claim that the astral body is several tens of centimeters larger than the physical body. Its color varies in its different sections. In addition, the color of the astral body depends on the intensity and “quality” of the emotions and desires produced by a person, on his state of mind at any given moment. Mental activity is yellowish, “life force” is red.

The human mental body is “responsible” for rational behavior and socialization. Like all of the above, it is not eternal. After death, a person discards these bodies that have become unnecessary. What remains for him? What remains is the causal, the budhial and the atmanic, which together form the eternal part of man.

The causal body stores the results of the life experiences of all previous incarnations of each individual. It is a repository of mental and moral qualities; this is precisely the material with which karma “works.” Our life experience serves in every possible way to strengthen and develop (or, conversely, degrade) the causal body. It is this that stores our “baggage” that we will carry as a result of this incarnation.

The budhial body is the body of superconsciousness, intuition, divine insight. The atmanic body, like a precious core, wrapped in many layers, is a particle of the Absolute in each of us, where the mission is encrypted - what we were created for.

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The multidimensional system of human bodies, both field and material, was created over many millions of years. First, Monads arose - field (wave) matrices, perfect particles of the Absolute. Then the Monads put on the Budhial body, also a field body - this body is intended to express the principle of Being. That is, if the Monads are all the same, absolutely identical, then the Budhial body already has differences, this is the first body of the personality. The budhial body has no polarity characteristics, carries neither good nor evil, this body has a code of vibrations, it is the energy matrix of the individual, his vibrational characteristic. The buddhial body is also perfect; it determines the inclinations of a person, his inclinations, talents, and gifts. Thus, talents are given to absolutely every individual. The budhial body is formed randomly, but its energy parameters are constant.

The third human body is also field, this is the Causal *, causal, karmic body (“causal” - causal). The causal body has a variable energy characteristic, its parameters change depending on what energies the person interacts with, and it directly depends on the actions of the person. The vibrational parameters of the Causal body are not constant, they are measured by the sum of the actions of the individual both during incarnation on various material Planes (Mental, Astral, Physical), and outside of incarnation, in the immaterial, field Worlds (the so-called “Heaven”, where Gods and Heavenly Angels live , Ascended Masters).

Three Higher, field, immaterial bodies make up a single “Great Triad”, “Higher Self”, Soul, the basis of personality. The soul can evolve or degrade by changing the amount of vibration of the Causal body. The soul exists until the end of Manvatara (the existence of the Universe), or until it unites with the Creator and returns to the bosom of the Absolute. This process occurs constantly, that is, Souls that have reached the highest level of vibrations in the process of evolution return to the Creator (“enter Nirvana”). Other Souls that have not completed evolution or have degraded exist until the end of Manvatara.

Entering the Material Worlds, the Soul takes on the Mental body, the body of thought. This does not mean that there is no thought process in the field Worlds; it is simply very difficult for you, embodied people, to explain the difference between Consciousness and intellect. Consciousness is a wave, immaterial process, and intelligence, thinking is a material process, the movement of subtle mental matter, its fluctuations, the construction of forms, their interaction. The mental plane is inhabited by Spiritual Angels, disembodied people, Teachers, Egregors, Thought Forms, Ideas. The mental body of any person lives in this World, being at the same time part of a living being and part of the Mental World. The thought process occurs in the Mental body. The brain is just a “biocomputer” - an organ for “digesting” thoughts, connecting the Mental and physical bodies, its main function is to control the physical body. History has recorded many cases where a person was in clear consciousness until the end of his life, having a completely destroyed brain, which was revealed during an autopsy, since the physical body has other channels of communication with the mental body through the etheric body and chakras.

The next material body is the Astral, the body of desires and emotions. The personality puts on it when entering life on the Astral Plane. This Plane is the most populated in the Universe. Almost all the planets, and even the stars, are inhabited on this Plane. In the Astral Plane there are also the so-called “Heaven”, “Hell”, and “Purgatory”, these are just different subplanes of the Astral World. Numerous intelligent beings live there - people, spirits, human angels, entities, elements, devas, so-called “demons”, “devils” and other characters. Astral matter is very plastic and therefore the Astral body can be built by an effort of will. A resident of the Astral World can build a palace, simply by “inventing” it, and plant a beautiful garden. But maintaining artificially created forms requires a constant flow of energy, and as soon as this ceases, the object returns to its “natural” form. The true appearance of an inhabitant of the Astral World is formed on the basis of the energy characteristics of his Soul. Good is beautiful and Evil is ugly. Evil can put on beautiful masks, but it requires a lot of energy and cannot last long. The astral body of an incarnated person, as a rule, has its true appearance. People with developed astral “vision” “see”, feel, intuitively sense the true essence of a person.

Now let's talk about the two most “dense” human bodies – Ethereal and Physical. These bodies are necessary for life in the Physical world. This plane is the most dense, “heavy”, sparsely populated. During pregnancy, both bodies of the unborn child are formed in the mother’s body, and the etheric body can begin to form even before the conception of the physical body. The etheric body is the “energy matrix” of the physical body, which is built on the basis of this matrix; the etheric body is always a perfect, ideal example and is ahead of the child’s physical body in its development. The etheric body is precisely what distinguishes the “living” from the “non-living”. People, animals, plants, microorganisms, crystals have an etheric body; all of these are living beings. The ethereal body has ice, water that has retained its crystalline structure is also “living,” and “dead”, non-crystalline water does not have an ethereal body.

Everything around is filled with ethereal energy (prana, life force), but the “body” is something that has a form, an ordered structure. Etheric energy scattered in space serves as building material, “food” for etheric bodies. A drop of boiled water is lifeless, its etheric energy has no form, but, having become a snowflake, acquiring a crystalline structure, it “comes to life.” Life originates where etheric energy acquires structure and form. What could be the triggering factor? Firstly, Consciousness, secondly, some physical processes, for example, temperature changes (crystallization of water during cooling or crystallization from a melt), pressure (transformation of graphite into diamond), and so on. The main life-giving factor is the Consciousness of the Absolute. That is, as it is told in the Bible, God populated the earth with plants and animals; this is an allegorical interpretation of a complex and lengthy process, but that’s exactly how it happened. Darwin is also right, because the evolutionary process is God's Law in action. If a living being is injured (amputation of a limb, docking of a puppy's tail, pruning of a tree, cutting of a crystal), the etheric body retains its perfect form for a long time. A disabled person’s amputated leg “hurts,” a dog wags its non-existent tail, a tree shakes its cut branches.

At the moment of a person’s death, the complex of seven bodies is divided, the physical and etheric bodies remain on the Physical plane, and the remaining five bodies, the outer of which remains the astral body, move to the Astral plane. The etheric body, which is closely connected with the physical during life, retains this connection for about 3 more days. Then it gradually separates from the physical body, and remains next to it for some time, up to 9 days. Then, during the period up to the 40th day, it dissolves in space. There are exceptional cases when the etheric body does not dissolve, but retains its form due to an external influx of energy, and then a ghost (the etheric variety) appears. Such a ghost, as a rule, is tied to a specific place - a cemetery, castle, forest, crossroads. The source of energy that fuels such a ghost can be either the consciousness of a rational being or energy flows in the area. But these are quite rare and exceptional cases. The physical body, after the etheric body leaves it, is irreversibly destroyed and decomposed into chemical elements. Modern medicine cannot revive a person after so-called “brain death,” but in history there are known cases of “miraculous resurrection” at a later date. If the etheric body did not have time to leave the physical body, then even the processes of decomposition are reversible. An important question: will the same five bodies return to this shell? This is a separate big topic. You know about the existence of “zombies”, about people who have completely lost their memory, about those who, after some traumatic situation, have undergone a personality change and have lost interest in their family, but this is a separate conversation, and it is ahead.

*). Some esoteric schools call the Third Body Casual (from “kasus” - case). This is not an entirely accurate designation, because the energy parameters of the Third Body are formed mainly not by chance, but by the conscious actions of the individual.

The seven bodies of a person are the essence of his personality.

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HUMAN ENERGY BODIES

Types of matter
All matter in the universe consists of seven types of matter, types of athames. They are also called the seven worlds, or planes of nature.
These are the worlds:
1. – the highest, or subtlest, – the divine plane.
2. – the monadic plane, it is in it that human personalities – monads – are born and live.
3. – the atmic plane, the highest spirit of man – Atma – operates in it.
4. – buddhic, or the world of intuition, in it all the highest insights of man take place.
5. – monastic, intellectual, or mental plane, it is from the matter of this plane that the human mind consists.
6. – astral plane, the world of human emotions and passions.
7. – the physical world, part of which we can perceive with our senses.
In turn, each of these seven worlds consists of seven levels, that is, there are forty-nine levels of matter in total.
Physical world

Modern science knows three states of matter - solid, liquid, gaseous. All these three types of matter belong to the lowest, seventh physical world.

The physical world, like other worlds, consists of seven levels of matter (arranged in order of decreasing density):

1. Solid matter.
2. Liquid substance.
3. Gaseous.
4. Essential substance.
5. Superether substance.
6. Subatomic matter.
7. Atomic matter.

Where exactly are these plans located? -Everywhere. All seven worlds are composed of seven types of atoms. The distances between atoms are so large that all seven types of matter can easily fit in any part of space without interfering with each other.
A classic example: a sponge is a solid. But if you wet it, then inside the sponge there will be a liquid substance - water. There are air bubbles inside the water.

That is, the sponge has not changed externally, but in the same area of ​​space there are simultaneously solid, liquid, and gaseous substances.

Human structure.

1.Physical body human beings have been studied and researched quite well - these are bones, muscles, internal organs, skin, lungs, blood, etc. It consists of three types of matter - solid, liquid, gaseous.
Often the physical body is identified with the person himself. This is not true, because the one hundred physical body is only a part of a person.

2.Ethereal double The human body consists of etheric matter, in which there are vortex centers of vital force.
Outwardly, it looks like a faintly glowing cloud in the form of a gray-violet human figure. The etheric body protrudes beyond the boundaries of the physical body by about 1-2 cm.
The etheric double can separate from the physical body, but this is always accompanied by danger for the person. When the etheric body completely and forever leaves the physical, the physical body, having lost all vital forces, seems to “die.”
The etheric body, having separated from the physical, becomes helpless and easily vulnerable to various foreign creatures. For an ordinary healthy person, such separation of bodies is very difficult. By using anesthesia and painkillers, the etheric double can be separated.

In seriously ill people, the etheric double can separate on its own. In this case, the physical body becomes insensitive.
After the death of a person, the etheric body can be located near the physical body. Sometimes some living people can see the etheric double of a deceased person, mistaking him for a ghost or ghost.

This explains the many legends about ghosts walking in cemeteries or in places where a murder was committed. If a person loved his body and himself during life, for three days his etheric body continues to be next to the body, but there are only a few such people. Usually the etheric body is in a hurry to visit people dear to it who are far from it and say goodbye to them.

3. Astral body human is responsible for the emotions, passions and desires of a person.
If a person has base passions, desires, and animal emotions, then the matter of the astral body is coarse and its color is dark and unattractive - brown, dark red and dirty green tones predominate in it.

The purity of the astral body largely depends on the frequency of the physical body. If a person uses drugs, alcohol, tobacco or meat, then he attracts unclean astral energy to himself.

And vice versa, if a person monitors his health and refuses to eat negative foods, then his aura brightens and purifies.
During sleep, the astral body is separated from the physical body along with the higher principles of man. During sleep, in cultured and highly cultured people, the consciousness continues to be awake and develop.

Amazing things can happen in the astral world - a person can communicate with long-dead people, acquaintances and relatives, and have meaningful conversations with them. Waking up after this, a person sometimes cannot immediately understand that everything that happened to him was not in a dream, but in reality.
In dreams, the world of living people intersects with the world of the dead.

A well-developed astral body is capable of premonition, sensing other invisible beings, experiencing, and cognizing the world during sleep.
Conversely, people with a low level of development of the astral body almost never remember their dreams. It seems to them that they don’t see any dreams at all.

With the help of training, you can ensure that in your dreams a person will be able to act in full consciousness. He can have meaningful conversations with the characters in his dreams, receive valuable and useful information from them, learn, find answers to many questions, and see pictures from the future and present.
A striking example to illustrate these possibilities is the well-known story of how the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev saw in a dream the famous table of periodic elements, which was later named after him.
After death, a person lives for some time in the astral world in the same astral body as during life. The more he learned to control his astral body during life, the easier it will be for him to control it after death.

4.Mental body consists of even more subtle matter than the astral. The mental body is capable of responding with vibrations to every change in our thoughts.

Each change of consciousness can cause a vibration in the mental body, which is then transmitted to the astral body, and the latter transmits it to the physical brain, which in turn gives a command to the physical body - arms, legs, etc.
That is, a thought is not born in the brain, as was previously thought, a thought is born in the mental body, and only then along the chain it enters the physical brain.

The mental body, just like the astral body, consists of different matter for different people - for cultural, highly developed individuals it consists of subtle matter, for primitive people it consists of coarser matter.

In developed people, the mental body is constantly in motion and has clearly defined boundaries. In primitive people, the mental body is like a cloud with unclear, blurry edges.

The mental body remains awake even during sleep, so a person is able to think during sleep.
The mental body can be developed and improved through study, prayer and meditation. A person with a good mental body is capable of high emotions and has clear, precise thinking.

Evil thoughts, on the contrary, can spoil the mental body beyond recognition, so that later it will be difficult to cure it and return it to its original form.

After death, a person continues to live in the mental body for quite a long time, so during earthly life one must try to develop and strengthen the mental body as best as possible.

MORTAL AND IMMORTAL HUMAN BODIES

The first four human bodies - physical, etheric, astral, mental - are mortal, that is, after a certain period of time they all disintegrate without a trace.

But the next three bodies - intellectual, spiritual and higher spiritual - are immortal.

5. Intellectual body- higher intelligence, capable of abstractions. A person, with the help of this mind, is able to recognize the truth by intuition, and not by reasoning.

The intellectual body stores all of a person’s experience accumulated on the mental, astral and physical levels.
The intellectual body looks like a luminous egg-shaped cloud, extending about half a meter from the surface of the physical body.
In a primitive, wild person, the intellectual body looks like a colorless bubble of very small size, barely protruding beyond the boundaries of the physical body.

In a highly developed individual, it looks like a huge luminous ball, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, emitting rays of love and care in all directions. The size of the aura in this case can reach several kilometers. The Buddha's intellectual body extended around five kilometers.

The colors of the intellectual body have the following meanings:
pale pink - selfless love;
yellow – intelligence;
green – compassion;
blue - piety and deep devotion;
lilac – high spirituality.
Negative human qualities, such as pride and irritability, are not reflected in any way on the intellectual body, because all human vices are concentrated at lower levels - mental and astral.

6. Spiritual body(buddhic) belongs to the world of pure, spiritual wisdom, knowledge and love, united into one whole. It is nourished by all high, loving aspirations, pure compassion and all-encompassing tenderness.

7. Higher spiritual body(atmic) consists of the finest matter, the shell of the spirit. In this higher body the results of all experiences accumulated throughout eternity are collected.

All three immortal bodies merge into one spiritual body, forming, as it were, a bright robe for a perfect person.

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Stages of development of subtle bodies

Man consists of seven bodies. The first is the physical body known to everyone. The second is the etheric body; the third, different from the second, is the astral body. The fourth, different from the third, is the mental or psychic body; the fifth, again different from the fourth, is the spiritual body. The sixth body, different from the fifth, is called cosmic. The seventh and last is called nirvana sharir, or nirvana body, the incorporeal body. A little information about these seven bodies will allow you to understand Kundalini more fully.

In the first seven years of life, only the sthul sharir - the physical body - is formed. The remaining bodies remain only seeds. They are endowed with growth potential, but at the beginning of life they dormant. Therefore, the first seven years are years of limitation. During these years there is no growth of intellect, feelings or desires. All this time, only the physical body develops. Some people never outgrow this age, they are stuck at the seven year level and remain nothing more than animals. Animals develop only physical bodies, everything else remains intact in them.

In the next seven years - from seven to fourteen - the bhava sharira, or etheric body, develops. This is seven years of emotional personal growth. That is why it is at the age of fourteen that sexual maturity begins, bringing with it the strongest of all feelings. And some people stop here. Their physical body continues to grow, but they are stuck in the first two bodies.

In the next seven-year period, from fourteen to twenty-one, the sukshma sarira, or astral body, appears. And if emotions and feelings develop in the second body, then in the third - mind, thinking and intellect. Therefore, not a single court in the world holds children under seven years of age accountable for their actions, because the baby still only has a physical body. In this sense, we treat the child the same as an animal and cannot hold him responsible. Even if he commits a crime, we believe that it was committed under someone else's direction, that the real criminal is someone else.

With the development of the second body, a person reaches maturity. But this is just puberty. Here the work of nature ends, and therefore nature provides full assistance to man only up to this stage. But at this stage a person does not yet become a person in the full sense of the word. The third body, with which the mind, thinking and intellect develop, is given to us by education, civilization and culture. Therefore, we receive the right to vote at twenty-one. This practice prevails in the world, but now in many countries the issue of granting this right to eighteen-year-olds is being discussed. This is natural, since with the evolution of man the usual seven-year period of development of each of the bodies is increasingly shortened.

Around the world, girls reach puberty between the ages of thirteen and fourteen. But in the last thirty years this age has become less and less. Even ten- to eleven-year-old girls are reaching puberty. The lowering of the voting age to eighteen is an indication that many people have begun to complete the work of twenty-one years at eighteen. However, in the ordinary case, it still takes twenty-one years to grow three bodies, and most people do not develop further. With the formation of the third body, their growth stops, and they no longer improve until the end of their lives.

What I call the psyche is the fourth body, or manas sarira. This body has its own wonderful experiences. A person with an undeveloped intellect cannot be interested in and enjoy, for example, mathematics. There is a special charm in mathematics, and only Einstein could immerse himself in it, like a musician into sounds or an artist into colors. For Einstein, mathematics was not work, but play, but in order to turn mathematics into a game, the intellect must reach the pinnacle of its development.

With the development of each body, endless possibilities open up before us. One whose etheric body has not formed, who has stopped after seven years of development, has no other interests in life except food and drink. Therefore, the culture of civilizations where most people develop only to the level of the first body is based exclusively on sweet roots. The culture of civilizations where most people are stuck on a second body is focused exclusively on sex. Their prominent personalities, literature, music, their films and books, their poetry and paintings, even their houses and cars are all centered on sexual relations; all these things are thoroughly saturated with sex, sexuality.

In a civilization where the third body is fully developed, people are intelligent and thoughtful. When the development of the third body becomes especially important for society, intellectual revolutions occur in large numbers. This is the caliber of people that prevailed during the times of Buddha and Mahavira in Bihar*. That is why, in the small province of Bihar, eight people were born, comparable in scale to Buddha and Mahavira. Thousands of other people blessed with genius also lived in those days. The same situation arose in Greece during the times of Socrates and Plato and in China during the times of Lao Tzu and Confucius. And what is especially surprising is that the lifespan of all these amazing people falls within just five hundred years. During these half a millennium, the development of the third human body reached its peak. Usually a person stops on the third body. Most of us don't develop beyond the age of twenty-one.

* Bihar is a state in India with its capital at Pant, located in the Ganges Valley, west of Bangladesh. - Approx. translation

With the fourth body, a person gains a completely unusual experience. Hypnosis, telepathy, clairvoyance are the potential capabilities of the fourth body. People can communicate with each other across space and time. They can, without asking, read the thoughts of others or project their own. Without any external help, plant ideas in other people's minds. A person is able to travel outside the body, make astral projections and study himself from the outside, from outside the physical body.

The fourth body is endowed with enormous potential, but we do not try to fully develop it, because this path is very risky and deceptive. The more subtle the world we enter, the greater the likelihood of being deceived. First of all, it is difficult to find out whether a person has actually left his body. Either it seemed to him that he had abandoned him, or he really did it - in both cases, he himself remains the only witness. So it’s easy to be deceived here.

On the other side of the fourth body the world is subjective, but on this side it is objective. When I hold a rupee in my fingers, I, you, and fifty other people can see it. This is an ordinary reality in which we all participate, and it is easy to find out whether I have a rupee in my fingers or not. But you are not my companion in the kingdom of my thoughts, and I am not your companion in the kingdom of yours. This is where the personal world begins with all its dangers; this is where our external rules and justifications lose weight. So, the truly deceptive world begins with the fourth body. And everything that is deceptive in the three previous worlds is just a trifle.

The greatest danger is that the deceiver is not necessarily aware of the fact that he is deceiving. He can, without knowing it, deceive both others and himself. Everything at this level is so subtle, impermanent and personal that one has no way of testing the reality of one's experience. Therefore, he is not able to say for sure whether he is simply imagining something or whether it is really happening to him.

That is why we have always tried to protect humanity from this fourth body, cursing and executing those who used it. In Europe, at one time, hundreds of women were branded and burned as witches - simply because they used the capabilities of the fourth body. Hundreds of tantricists were killed in India for working with the same body. They knew some secrets that seemed dangerous to others. They knew what was going on in your mind; without ever entering your house, they knew what was where you had. Traveling through the kingdom of the fourth body was considered a "black" art throughout the world, because one can never foresee what will happen on the next step. We always tried our best to keep people from taking any steps beyond the third body: the fourth seemed too dangerous to us.

Yes, dangers await a person here, but along with them come amazing achievements. Therefore, it was necessary not to stop, but to explore. Perhaps then we would find ways to test the reality of our experience. We now have new scientific instruments, and human comprehension has increased. So, perhaps some future discoveries will help us find the right paths, as has happened more than once in science.

Do animals have dreams? How can you find out if animals don't speak? We know we dream because we get up in the morning and tell each other what we dreamed. Recently, after enormous and persistent efforts, a way was found. The answer was given by one man who worked with monkeys for many years; and the methods of its work are worth understanding. He showed the monkeys a movie. As soon as the film began, the experimental animal was shocked. A button was provided on the spectator's seat, and the monkey was trained to press it when it felt a shock. So, every day they put her on a seat and gave her an electric shock when the movie started. The monkey immediately pressed the button and turned it off.

This continued for several days; then they began to euthanize the monkey on the same seat. Now, with the beginning of the dream, the monkey should have felt discomfort, since for him the film on the screen and the film in the dream are one and the same. She immediately pressed the button. She pressed the button again and again, and this proved that the monkey dreams. This is how man managed to penetrate into the inner world of animal dreams.

People who meditate have also learned to externally check the reality of events in the fourth body and can distinguish true experiences from false ones. Just because the experience of Kundalini in the fourth body is psychic, it does not follow that it is false. There are true mental states and false mental states. Therefore, when I talk about Kundalini as a psychic experience, this does not mean that it is necessarily false. Psychic experience can be either false or true.

At night you see a dream, and this dream is a fact, because it happened. But when you wake up in the morning, you may remember some dream that you did not actually have and claim that you dreamed it. Then it is a false dream. A person can wake up in the morning and say that he never dreams. Many people truly believe that they cannot see them. But they dream, they dream all night long, this is proven by science. However, in the morning they insist that they have never seen anything like this. So their words are absolutely false, although they are not aware of it. In fact, they simply don't remember their dreams. The opposite also happens... you remember dreams you didn't have. This is also false.

Dreams are not false, they are a special reality. But dreams can be real and unreal. Real dreams are those that you actually dreamed. The problem is that when you wake up, you cannot retell your dream exactly. Therefore, in the old days, people who knew how to retell them clearly and in detail were highly respected. It is very difficult to accurately retell a dream. You see a dream in one sequence, but remember it in the reverse order. It's like a movie. The plot of the film we are watching unfolds from the beginning of the film. It’s the same in a dream: while we sleep, the coil of the drama of the dream turns in one direction, and when we wake up, it begins to unfold in the other, so first we remember the very end and then we remember everything in reverse order. And the first thing we dreamed about is the last thing we remember. It's like if someone tried to read a book from the wrong end, the upside down words would create exactly the same chaos. So remembering dreams and retelling them correctly is a great art. Usually, when we remember dreams, we remember events that we never dreamed of. We lose a significant part of sleep immediately, and a little later - everything else.

Dreams are events of the fourth body, and its potential is enormous. All the siddhis or supernatural powers mentioned in yoga are found in this body. Yoga tirelessly warns the meditator that one should not chase after siddhas. This distracts the seeker from the path. No psychic abilities have spiritual value.

So, when I spoke about the psychic nature of Kundalini, I meant that it is a fourth body phenomenon. That is why physiologists cannot detect Kundalini in the human body. It is quite natural that they deny the existence of Kundalini and chakras and consider them fiction. These are the phenomena of the fourth body. The fourth body exists, but it is very subtle; it cannot be squeezed into the narrow framework of comprehension. Only the physical body can be squeezed into a frame. Nevertheless, there are points of correspondence between the first and fourth bodies.

If we put seven sheets of paper together and pierce them all with a pin, then even if the hole on the first sheet is smoothed out, there will still be a mark on it corresponding to the holes in the other sheets. And so, although there is no hole in the first sheet, there is a point on it that exactly coincides with the holes in the other sheets, if you put them all together. In the same way, chakras, Kundalini and other phenomena do not belong to the first body, but there are points of correspondence in the first body. Therefore, physiologists are not mistaken in denying their existence in our body. Chakras and Kundalini are located in other bodies, but only points of correspondence can be found in the physical body.

So, Kundalini is a phenomenon of the fourth body and is of a psychic nature. And when I say that there are two types of psychic phenomena - true and false - you must understand what I mean. These phenomena are false when they are generated by the imagination, since imagination itself is only a property of the fourth body. Animals have no imagination, so they have little memory of the past and no idea about the future. Animals do not know anxiety, because anxiety is always about the future. Animals often see death, but cannot imagine that they themselves will die, and they have no fear of death. Many people are also not bothered by the fear of death. Such people associate death exclusively with others, but not with themselves. The reason for this is that the power of imagination in their fourth body has not developed strongly enough to see into the future.

It turns out that imagination can also be true and false. True imagination means the ability to look into the future, to imagine what has not yet happened. But if you imagine something that cannot happen, then it is false imagination. The proper use of imagination is science; science is initially only imagination.

For thousands of years, man has dreamed of flight. The people who dreamed about this must have had very strong imaginations. And if people had never dreamed of flying, the Wright brothers would not have been able to build their plane. They simply turned the human passion for flight into something concrete. It took some time for this passion to take shape, then there were experiments, and finally the man managed to take off.

For thousands of years, man has wanted to go to the moon. The people who dreamed about this had a very strong imagination. In the end, their fantasies came true... so they were not on the wrong path. These fantasies followed the path of reality, which was discovered a little later. So, both the scientist and the madman use imagination.

I say that science is imagination and madness is also imagination, but don't think that they are the same thing. A madman imagines non-existent things that have nothing to do with the physical world. The scientist also imagines... he imagines things that have the most direct relation to the physical world. And if they are not feasible now, then, quite possibly, they can be implemented in the future.

When working with the capabilities of the fourth body, we always have the possibility of going astray. Then we enter false worlds. Therefore, when going into this body, it is better not to have any expectations. The fourth body is psychic. If, for example, I want to go down from the fourth floor to the first, I need to find an elevator or steps to do this. But if I want to descend in my thoughts, then there is no need for these devices. I can go down without leaving my chair.

The danger in the world of imagination and thought is that the only thing needed is to imagine and think, and anyone can do this. Moreover, if someone enters this realm with preconceived ideas and expectations, he immediately becomes completely immersed in them, for the mind very willingly cooperates with him. He says: “Do you want to awaken Kundalini? Okay! It is rising... well, it has already risen.” You will imagine how the Kundalini has risen, and the mind will encourage you in this false sensation, until finally you feel that the Kundalini is completely awakened, the chakras are activated.

However, there is an opportunity to test how real these experiences are... the fact is that with the opening of each chakra, your personality changes significantly. You cannot imagine or invent these changes because they occur in the material world.

For example, with the awakening of Kundalini, you cannot take any intoxicating drinks, this is excluded. The mental body is very subtle, and alcohol affects it instantly. Therefore (this may surprise you) a woman who drinks alcohol becomes much more dangerous than a man. And all because her mental body is thinner than a man’s, and under the influence of alcohol she more easily loses control over herself. Therefore, society has historically developed certain rules that protect women from this danger. This is one of the areas where women have not recently tried to achieve equality with men, although recently they have begun to strive for this. The day a woman asserts her equality in this sphere and tries to surpass men, she will do herself harm such as no man has ever done her.

Your words about the sensations experienced cannot serve as confirmation of the awakening of Kundalini in the fourth body, because, as I already said, you can imagine this awakening and, accordingly, an imaginary flow of energy. Only your spiritual qualities and the changes in character that should accompany this process allow you to judge something. As soon as the energy awakens, changes will appear in you. That’s why I always say that behavior is only an external indicator, and not an internal reason. This is the criterion of what is happening inside. Any effort inevitably leads to one or another result. When energy awakens, a person engaged in meditation can no longer use any intoxicating substances. If he abuses drugs or alcohol, then know that all his experiences are imaginary, because this is completely incompatible with true experience.

After the awakening of Kundalini, the tendency to violence completely disappears. A person who meditates not only does not commit violence, he does not feel any violence within himself. The impulse to violence, the impulse to cause harm to others can manifest itself only as long as the vital energy is dormant. The moment she wakes up, others cease to be different, and you no longer wish them harm. And then you don’t have to suppress violence within yourself, because you are simply no longer capable of it.

If you feel that you have to suppress your desire for violence, then know that Kundalini has not yet awakened. If, having gained sight, you are still testing the road in front of you with a stick, it means that your eyes do not see yet, and you can prove the opposite as much as you want - until you give up the stick, all these are just words. Whether an outside observer will conclude that you have gained sight depends on your actions. Your stick and your stumbling, uncertain gait prove that your eyes have not yet seen the light.

So, with awakening, your behavior will radically change, and all religious injunctions - about non-violence, about abstinence from lies and quarrels, about celibacy and constant vigilance - will become something simple and natural for you. Then you can be sure that your experience was true. This is a psychic experience, and yet a true one. Now you can move on. You are able to move forward if and only if you are on the right path. You cannot stop forever at the fourth body, because this is not the goal. There are other bodies and they need to be passed through.

As I have already said, very few people succeed in developing the fourth body. That's why there are miracle workers in the world. If everyone developed a fourth body, there would be no room left for miracles. If, in a certain society consisting of people whose development had stopped at the second body, one person suddenly advanced a little further and learned to add and subtract, he, too, would be considered a miracle worker.

A thousand years ago, a person who predicted the date of a solar eclipse was known as a miracle worker and a great sage. Now everyone knows that even a machine can provide such information. You just need to make a series of calculations, and for this you don’t need an astronomer, a prophet, or just a very learned person. The computer can give you information about millions of eclipses. He can even predict the day when the sun will cool down - because it is calculable. Using the entered data, the machine will divide the total energy of our luminary by the amount of energy it emits per day, and calculate the time allotted to the sun.

But all this now does not seem like a miracle to us, since we have developed a third body. A thousand years ago, if a person predicted that a lunar eclipse would take place on such and such a night in such and such a month next year, then it was a miracle. He was considered a superman. The "miracles" performed today are the ordinary actions of the fourth body. But we know nothing about this body, and therefore all this seems like miracles.

Imagine that I am sitting on a tree, and you are under a tree, and we are talking. Suddenly I notice a cart approaching us in the distance and tell you that in less than an hour it will approach us. You ask: “Are you a prophet? You speak in riddles. I don’t see any cart anywhere. I don’t believe you.” But not even an hour has passed before a cart rolls up to the tree, and then you have no choice but to touch my leg and say: “Beloved teacher, I bow to you. You are a prophet.” And the only difference between us is that I was sitting a little higher - on a tree - from where I could see the cart an hour earlier than you. I was not talking about the future, but about the present, but my present is an hour different from yours, because I climbed higher. For you it will come in an hour, but for me it has already come.

The deeper a person dives into his inner essence, the more mysterious he seems to those who still remain on the surface. And then all his actions seem mysterious to us, because we are not able to evaluate all these events without knowing the laws of the fourth body. This is exactly how miracles happen: it’s all just a matter of some development of the fourth body. And if we want miracle workers to stop exploiting people, then simple sermons will not help. Just as we develop a person's third body by teaching him languages ​​and mathematics, we must train his fourth body. Every person must be taught, and only then will miracles stop. Until then, there will always be those who want to take advantage of human ignorance.

The fourth body is formed before the age of twenty-eight, that is, seven more. But very few manage to develop it. the body is very important. If a person develops properly, then this body is fully formed by the age of thirty-five. But for most this is just an abstract idea, since even the fourth body is developed by very few. That is why the soul and everything connected with it is just a topic for conversation for us... there is no content behind this word. When we say atman, it is nothing more than a word, there is nothing behind it. When we say “wall,” there is a completely material substance behind this word. We know what "wall" means. But there is no meaning behind the word atman because we have no knowledge, no experience of atman. This is our fifth body, and we can enter it only if Kundalini awakens in the fourth. There is no other entrance there. We are not aware of our fourth body, therefore the fifth remains unknown to us.

Very few people have succeeded in discovering the fifth body - we call such people spiritualists. They often believe that they have reached the end of the journey and declare: “To reach the atman is to achieve everything.” But the journey is not over yet. However, people who settled on the fifth body deny any continuation. They say... “Brahman does not exist, paramatman does not exist,” in the same way people stuck on the first body deny the existence of atman. Materialists say: “The body is everything, when the body dies, everything dies.” And spiritualists echo them: “Beyond atman there is nothing, atman is everything, the highest level of being.” But this is only the fifth body.

The sixth body is the brahma sarira, the cosmic body. When a person outgrows the atman, he has a desire to part with it, and he enters the sixth body. If humanity developed correctly, then the natural formation of the sixth body would be completed by the age of forty-two, and the seventh - nirvana sharira - by forty-nine. The seventh body is the body of nirvana, non-body - a state of incorporeality, incorporeality. This is the highest state where only a vacuum remains - not even Brahman or cosmic reality, but only emptiness. Nothing remains, everything disappears.

Therefore, when the Buddha was asked: “What is happening there?”, he answered:

The flame goes out.

What happens next? - they asked him then.

When the flame goes out, there is no point in asking, "Where did it go? Where is it now?" It faded away, that's all.

The word nirvana means "extinction." That's why Buddha said that nirvana is coming.

In the fifth body the state of moksha is experienced. The limitations of the first four bodies are overcome, and the soul becomes completely free. So liberation is the experience of the fifth body. Hell and heaven belong to the fourth body, and whoever stops here will experience them for himself. For those who have settled on the first, second or third body, everything is limited to life between birth and death; life after death is not for them. And if a person grows to the fourth body, then after death heaven and hell will open before him with endless possibilities of happiness and suffering.

And if he gets to the fifth body, he finds the door to liberation, and when he reaches the sixth body, he gains the opportunity to realize himself in the Divine. Then there are no questions about freedom or unfreedom, he himself becomes both. The statement "Aham Brahmasmi" - I am God - belongs to this level. But there is one more step, the final leap - to where neither Aham nor Brahman exists, where neither “I” nor “you” exist, where there is simply nothing - where there is complete and absolute emptiness. This is nirvana.

Here are seven bodies developing over forty-nine years. That is why the fiftieth anniversary is considered a revolutionary point. For the first twenty-five years, life follows one pattern. At this time, a person’s efforts are aimed at developing the first four bodies, then it is considered that education is completed. It is assumed that after this, the person will search for his fifth, sixth and seventh bodies and will acquire them over the next twenty-five years. Therefore, the year of the fiftieth anniversary is considered critical. At this time the person becomes vanaprastha. This only means that from now on he must turn his gaze to the forest - turn away from people, society, and bazaars.

The age of seventy-five is another revolutionary point when the time comes for a person to be initiated into sannyasins. Turning your gaze to the forest means moving away from the crowds of people; to become a sannyasin means to go beyond the ego, to outgrow the ego. In the forest, “I” still necessarily remains with a person, even if he has given up everything else, but with the onset of his seventy-fifth birthday, he needs to give up this “I” too.

However, the precondition for this is that during his life as an ordinary family man, a person develops all his seven bodies, and then the rest of his journey through life will pass for him joyfully and at ease. If something is missed, it is very difficult to make up for it, since each seven-year cycle is associated with a strictly defined phase of development. If a child's physical body does not develop fully in the first seven years of his life, he will remain sickly forever. Although he will not necessarily be bedridden, he will never become completely healthy, because the foundation of health laid in the first seven years of life has been shaken. What should be hard and durable is damaged at its very origin.

It's like laying the foundation of a house... if the foundation is not secure, it will be difficult - nay, impossible - to fix it after the roof is built. It can be well laid out only at the initial stage of construction. So, if in the first seven years the first body is provided with the proper conditions, then it develops as it should. If over the next seven years the second body and emotions develop poorly, this will lead to a number of sexual perversions. And it will be very difficult to fix something later. Therefore, it is so important not to miss the appropriate stage.

At each stage of life, each body has a predetermined period of development. There may be all sorts of minor differences, but that’s not the point. If a child does not reach puberty within fourteen years, then his whole life will become one severe test for him. If a person has not developed intelligence by the age of twenty-one, then he has very little chance of catching up later. So far everything is fine with us, we take care of the baby’s first body, then we send the child to school to develop his intellect as well. But we forget that a certain time is also allotted for other bodies, and any omissions here result in huge difficulties for us.

In fifty years a person develops bodies that he should have completed by twenty-one. Obviously, at this age he has much less strength than he had then, and now it is very difficult for him. And what would have been easy before comes hard and takes a long time.

But he also faces another difficulty: at the age of twenty-one, he stood right next to the door, but did not open it. Now, over the past thirty years, he had been in so many places that he had completely lost sight of the right door. And now he simply cannot find the place where he was in the days when he only needed to lightly press the handle and enter.

Therefore, before children reach twenty-five years of age, they should be well prepared. All necessary measures must be taken so that they rise to the level of the fourth body. If you succeed, everything else is simple. The foundations have been laid, all that remains is to wait for the fruits. With the fourth body the tree is formed, with the fifth body the fruits begin to set, and with the seventh they reach maturity. This is where we can afford to miss the deadline, but we have to be very careful when laying the foundations.

There are a few other things to keep in mind in this regard. In the first four bodies, man and woman are different from each other. For example, if you are a man, then your physical body is male. But then your second, etheric body is female, since neither the negative nor the positive pole can exist separately from each other. The male and female bodies, to use terms from electricity, are the positive and negative poles.

A woman's physical body is negative, so she is not characterized by sexual aggression. She may be subjected to violence from a man, but she is not able to resort to violence herself. She will not do anything with him without the man's consent. The first body of a man is positive - aggressive. Therefore, he can show aggression towards a woman without her consent; there is an aggressive element in his body. But "negative" does not mean zero or absent. In electrical terms, minus is receptivity, reserve. The female body is a storehouse of energy, and a lot of it accumulates there. But this energy is not active, it is inert.

The physical body of a man is positive, but behind the positive body there must also be a negative one, otherwise it simply cannot exist. Both bodies coexist and then the circle is complete.

So, the second body of a man is female, and the second body of a woman is male. That’s why (and this is a very interesting fact) the man looks very strong, and as far as his physical body is concerned, that’s the way it is. But behind this external strength lies a weak female body. That is why he is able to show strength only for a short time. And over long distances, he is inferior to a woman, because behind her weak female body there is a positive, male one.

Therefore, a woman’s resistance, her endurance is stronger than that of a man. When a man and a woman suffer from the same disease, the woman is able to resist longer. Women give birth to children. If men gave birth, they would have to go through the same ordeals. And then, probably, there would be no need for family planning, because the man would not be able to endure such long pain. He may flare up in anger for a second or two, even beat a pillow, but he is not capable of carrying a child in his womb for nine months and then patiently raising him for years. In addition, he can easily strangle the baby if he screams all night. He can't stand this worry. He is extremely strong, but behind the external force there is a fragile and delicate etheric body. Therefore, he does not tolerate pain and discomfort.

As a result, women get sick less and live longer than men.

The third, astral body of a man is again male, and the fourth, psychic body is female. For women, everything is exactly the opposite. This division into male and female is preserved only up to the fourth body; the fifth body is already beyond sexual differences. Therefore, with the achievement of the atman, neither male nor female remains, but not before.

In this regard, one more thing comes to mind. So, every man carries within himself a female body, and every woman a male body, and if a woman by chance finds a husband whose body is identical to her male body, or a man marries a woman identical to his female body, then the marriage is successful. Otherwise - no.

That's why ninety-nine percent of marriages are unhappy... it's just that people don't yet know the basic rule of success. Until we know how to ensure union between the corresponding energy bodies of people, marriages will remain largely unsuccessful, no matter what steps we take in other directions. Successful marriages are possible only if there is absolutely clear scientific information about the various internal bodies. It is very easy for a girl or boy who has awakened Kundalini in himself to choose the right partner for life. Having acquired knowledge about all of his internal bodies, a person is able to make the right external choice. Otherwise it is very difficult.

Therefore, knowledgeable people have long insisted that a person must first develop the first four bodies, performing brahmacharya until the age of twenty-five, and only then marry, because otherwise who will he marry? Who does he want to spend the rest of his life with? Who is he looking for? What kind of man is a woman looking for? She is looking for the man inside herself. If, completely by chance, the connection turns out to be correct, then both the man and the woman are satisfied. Otherwise there is no satisfaction, and this leads to thousands of perversions. A man goes to a prostitute, runs to his neighbor... He becomes more and more bitter day by day, and the higher his intelligence, the more unhappy he is usually.

* Brahmacharya is one of the degrees of spiritual asceticism in Hinduism. A brahmachari lives in the house of his guru, serves him, studies the Vedas and observes a number of vows, the first of which is celibacy. - Approx. translation

If a person's personal growth stops at the age of fourteen, he will not have to suffer this pain, for such suffering comes only with the third body. If a man has only two bodies developed, he will be satisfied with his sex life in any case.

So there are two ways: either during the first twenty-five years, in the process of brahmacharya, we develop children to the fourth body, or we encourage child marriage. Child marriage is a marriage that takes place before the development of intelligence, and then the person stops having sex. In this case, no problems arise, because the relationship here remains on a purely animal level. Relationships in child marriage remain purely sexual; and there can be no love here.

Nowadays, in places like America, where the level of education is high and people have a fully developed third body, marriages are increasingly breaking up. It cannot be otherwise, since the third body rebels against an unsuccessful partnership. And so people get divorced, because such a relationship becomes an unbearable burden for them.

Proper education is aimed at developing the first four bodies. Good education takes you to the level of the fourth body, and only then its work is completed. No training will help you enter the fifth body - you must get there yourself. Good education can easily take you up to the fourth body, but after that the growth of the fifth body begins - a very valuable and very personal one. Kundalini is the fourth body potential and is therefore a psychic phenomenon. I hope this is clear to you now.

In addition to his physical body, there are also 7 subtle or energy bodies, each of which has its own special important functions and structural features. It turns out that together with the physical body, a person has 8 subtle bodies. Subtle bodies are part of human energy, some of them (upper bodies) are immortal, just like some (lower bodies) are mortal or replaceable; with a new incarnation (formation of the physical body), new lower bodies are formed in a person.

Subtle bodies - determine a person’s energy strength, protection and many abilities that are directly related to these bodies. Each subtle body is controlled by one or another. And all together, the Subtle bodies form the multi-colored Aura of a Person. Let's look at everything in order, and in subsequent articles we will study each subtle body in more detail.

What are the Subtle Bodies of Man? Definitions, structure, etc.

Subtle bodies of Man are the main energy systems (shells, etc.), controlled by their respective bodies and designed to retain free energies, protect consciousness, strengthen other energy systems (abilities, etc.), give a person a form, etc.

There are errors in the pictures, they are approximate to give a general idea.

Basic Subtle Bodies:

And the eighth body (or rather, the first, or the lowest) is physical and controls it.

Each subtle body accumulates and holds the energy of its level, necessary for a person to live, develop and function.

The etheric body accumulates etheric energy, the Astral body – astral, the Mental – mental, etc.

Each type of energy has its own characteristics and purpose. Essential – retains heat around the body and maintains body temperature. Astral energy is needed for protection and combat operations; it is the energy of strength. Mental – for mental work, to think, manage thinking and thoughts.

Each subtle body has its own thickness, which varies from person to person. In energetically developed people, the subtle bodies are large, pumped with energy, then they say – “Big Man” :) If a person is exhausted, the subtle bodies can hang on him like rags, one physical body then barely moves.

What does the development of Human Subtle Bodies give?

Each subtle body is a set of its own capabilities and abilities for a person!

For example:

The development of the physical body - you know what it gives - strength, health, pleasure from feeling yourself, comfort and confidence in life, resistance to diseases, etc.

The development of the etheric body is the control of the circulatory system, which makes it possible not to freeze in winter and not die from the heat in summer, and much more. etc.

The development of the astral body gives a person invulnerability from the negative emotions of other people, the ability to influence with one’s energy, the ability to punish others for injustice, etc.

How to develop your Subtle bodies?

1. Subtle bodies develop and grow automatically with the development of the corresponding chakras, that is, with the realization by a person of the aspirations and principles of these chakras. For example, if a person is engaged in mental work, then his Mental body will develop and grow, etc.

2. Through a targeted collection of appropriate energy on the Subtle body, using special esoteric energy collection techniques. Regularly filling their Subtle bodies with energy, a person develops them, they constantly increase and grow, their systems and abilities are revealed.

3. Through a correct lifestyle - one that does not lead to energy depletion, but, on the contrary, promotes the harmonious development of the personality, and, accordingly, its Subtle bodies. When life has everything important - sports, training, emotional training, relationships, mental work, spiritual development, Service (social activities), etc.

4. Through the removal of negative, blocking or destructive influences from the Subtle bodies and the corresponding chakras. A person either does this himself, if he has the ability and authority for this (in meditation, for example), or he helps to do it (individual work with a professional).

In the following article we consider the main features of all the subtle bodies of Man.

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The paradox of the modern stage of development of science is that the more scientists try to move away from the “remnants of the past,” the closer they come to them. The hypothesis that the physical body should not be considered the only component of a person has long been considered by the most reputable researchers. The subtle human bodies, their forms and structure, invisible to our eyes, came to the attention of scientists back in the middle of the twentieth century.

What is the subtle body?

Subtle bodies refer to systems controlled by energy centers - chakras . It is quite difficult to explain these rather abstract concepts to the unprepared in a few words. Some philosophical movements and Eastern religions consider subtle bodies to be human guides in other worlds, where they are perceived in the same way as the physical body in the reality around us.

The essences of the subtle world, the classification of which will be presented below, are divided by esotericists into 2 groups. Some of them are immortal and travel with us from one life to another. The second is mortal, like the physical body, which is subject to decay after its own death. The concept of subtle bodies should not be confused with the concept of the soul. According to esotericists, the soul is consciousness, the “I”, which persists after physical death.

7 subtle human bodies

Non-physical shells – essences of the subtle world, To classification, left to us by ancient teachings, distinguishes 7 energy systems:

1. Etheric body(energy center – Svadhisthana chakra ). It is considered the closest to the physical shell of all the subtle bodies. Many people are able to see the etheric component not only of living beings, but also of inanimate objects. The etheric body is responsible for the circulatory and genitourinary system of the human material shell. It is responsible for immunity and thermoregulation of the body. The shell itself needs protection. The essential component can be damaged by an incorrect lifestyle and negative emotions. One of the simplest and most accessible ways to support your body is to play sports.


2. Astral body(energy center – Manipura chakra ). Responsible for our well-being in the astral world. If this body is not damaged or destroyed, the person is well protected from negative energetic influences, better known as “damage”, “evil eye”, “curse”, etc. People with a healthy astral shell are able to influence others. In addition, there are special teachings, thanks to which a person gets the opportunity to travel in the subtle world. However, if the traveler makes a mistake, he risks not returning to the physical world.
3. Mental body(energy center – Anahata chakra ). Thin invisible human body, their forms and structure must be studied in order to maintain their health. Each of our intangible substances requires its own nutrition. The mental body needs knowledge, the search for truth. For most people, mental activity ends after receiving a profession. And some people stop studying after school. The mental essence of those who do not strive for any new knowledge gradually atrophies. Like any organ of the physical shell, it turns into a rudiment. Having not received mental progress in this life, the soul is forced to once again return to the world it just left or descend to a lower level of development.


4. Karmic body(energy center – Vishuddha chakra ). The expressions “bad karma” and “good karma” are familiar to many people. In fact, karma cannot be good or bad. This is the totality of our actions committed in past lives. The task of a new incarnation is not to receive punishment for “bad karma.” The soul returns to correct mistakes.
5. (energy center – Ajna chakra ). The subtle human bodies, their forms, purpose and structure cannot always be understood and explained. The buddhic body receives its development only when a person develops his psychic abilities. Both the improvement process itself and its goal are important. If you strive to become a clairvoyant just to earn money and become famous, your actions will be considered selfish, and your buddhic essence will not receive the desired development.


6. Spiritual body(energy center – Sahasrara chakra ). This body can be developed in several ways, the main ones of which are serving God, fighting evil on a subtle level, and spiritual teaching. This essence is revealed at the seventh, highest level of human development on earth.

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7. Absolute body(energy center – chakra Atman ). The body is developed in those who are called messiahs and great teachers, such as Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. The shell is filled with absolute energy that comes from the Absolute (as God, the highest essence, is sometimes called). The body can exceed the physical shell in size.

The subtle human bodies, their shapes and structure have not yet been fully studied by modern scientists. The equipment of the new millennium is not so advanced as to perceive spiritual substance. Skeptics are accustomed to believing only in what can be perceived by the senses. However, even people far from religion, mysticism and philosophy admit that there are worlds and dimensions invisible to us.

All subtle bodies of Man and their full description

Subtle human bodies are energy accumulators, accumulators of necessary energy, guardians of many human abilities and energy systems. In addition, the subtle bodies ensure the functioning of the physical parts of the body and human organs.

Subtle bodies need to be known and developed, because a person’s overall success and state of happiness depends on their health and development!

Subtle bodies of Man - full description

Any esotericist or yogi knows perfectly well that Man, in addition to the physical body, also has 7 subtle or energy bodies, each of which has its own special important functions and structural features. It turns out that, together with the physical body, the human soul has 8 subtle bodies. Subtle bodies are part of human energy, some of them (upper bodies) are immortal, like the Soul, some (lower bodies) are mortal or replaceable, with a new incarnation (formation of the physical body), new lower bodies are formed in a person.

Subtle bodies - determine a person’s energy strength, protection and many abilities that are directly related to these bodies. Each subtle body is controlled by one chakra or another. And all together, the Subtle bodies form the multi-colored Aura of a Person. Let's look at everything in order, and in subsequent articles we will study each subtle body in more detail.

What are the Subtle Bodies of Man? Definitions, structure, etc.

Human subtle bodies are the main energy systems (shells, etc.), controlled by their corresponding chakras and designed to retain free energies, protect consciousness, strengthen other energy systems (abilities, etc.), give a person a form in the Subtle World, etc.

There are errors in the pictures, they are approximate to give a general idea.

Basic Subtle Bodies:

1. Ethereal (Svadhisthana chakra)
2. Astral (Manipura chakra)
3. Mental (Anahata chakra)
4. Karmic (Vishuddha)
5. Buddhic (Ajna)
6. Spiritual (Sahasrara)
7. Absolute (Atman)

And the eighth body (or rather, the first, or the lowest) is physical, it is controlled by the Muladhara chakra.

Each subtle body accumulates and holds the energy of its level, necessary for a person to live, develop and function.

The etheric body accumulates etheric energy, the Astral body - astral, the Mental - mental, etc.

Each type of energy has its own characteristics and purpose. Essential - retains heat around the body and maintains body temperature. Astral energy is needed for protection and combat operations; it is the energy of power. Mental - for mental work, to think, manage thinking and thoughts.

Each subtle body has its own thickness, which varies from person to person. In energetically developed people, the subtle bodies are large, pumped with energy, then they say - “Big Man” :) If a person is exhausted, the subtle bodies can hang on him like rags, one physical body then barely moves.

What does the development of Human Subtle Bodies give?

Each subtle body is a set of its own capabilities and abilities for a person!

For example:

The development of the physical body - you know what it gives - strength, health, pleasure from feeling yourself, comfort and confidence in life, resistance to diseases, etc.

The development of the etheric body is the control of the circulatory system, which makes it possible not to freeze in winter and not die from the heat in summer, and much more. etc.

The development of the astral body gives a person invulnerability from the negative emotions of other people, the ability to influence with one’s energy, the ability to punish others for injustice, etc.

How to develop your Subtle bodies?

1. Subtle bodies develop and grow automatically with the development of the corresponding chakras, that is, with the realization by a person of the aspirations and principles of these chakras. For example, if a person is engaged in mental work, then his Mental body will develop and grow, etc.

2. Through a targeted collection of appropriate energy on the Subtle body, using special esoteric energy collection techniques. Regularly filling their Subtle bodies with energy, a person develops them, they constantly increase and grow, their systems and abilities are revealed.

3. Through a correct lifestyle - one that does not lead to energy depletion, but, on the contrary, promotes the harmonious development of the personality, and, accordingly, its Subtle bodies. When life has everything important - sports, hardening, emotional training, relationships, mental work, spiritual development, Service (social activities), etc.

4. Through the removal of negative, blocking or destructive influences from the Subtle bodies and the corresponding chakras. A person either does this himself, if he has the ability and authority for this (in meditation, for example), or a Spiritual Healer helps to do this

In the following article we consider the main features of all the subtle bodies of Man.