Causal body

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jivatman

3.

Atmic plane

Saguna Brahman. individual spirit/pneuma
/atman

4.

Buddhic plane

soul/nous/buddhi/causal body

5


mind/manas/phren: mental and causal and higher mental bodies, projection/out-of-body experience (OBE)

6.

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OBE

7.


OBE

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The causal body, originally Karana-Sarira, is a

esotericism. It generally refers to the highest or innermost body that veils the atman or true Self
.

Hinduism

Karana sarira or the causal body is the cause

avidya, "ignorance" or "nescience" of the real identity of the atman, instead giving birth to the notion of jiva
-bhuta.

Siddharameshwar Maharaj, the guru of Nisargadatta Maharaj, also describes the causal body as characterized by "emptiness", "ignorance" and "darkness".[3] In the search for the "I am", this is a state where there is nothing to hold on to anymore.[3][note 1]

Purusa i.e. of Ishvara ends.[4]

According to other philosophical schools the causal body is not the atman, because it also has a beginning and an end and is subject to modification.[web 2] Shankara, not seeking a personal god, goes beyond Anandamaya Kosha in search of the transcendent Brahman.[4]

The Indian tradition identifies it with the Anandamaya kosha,[web 1] and the deep sleep state, as mentioned in the Mandukya Upanishad, where buddhi becomes dormant and all concepts of time fail, although there differences between these three descriptions.

Theosophy

In

C. W. Leadbeater, the "Causal Body" refers not to the "Buddhi-Manas" but to Blavatsky's "Higher Manas" alone. This is also referred to as the "Higher Mental", "Abstract Mind" (as opposed to Lower Mental or "Concrete Mind"), or "Causal Body". It is considered the highest subtle body, beyond even the mental body. As with all the vehicles of consciousness, the Causal Body is associated with an objective or cosmic plane, in this case the Causal plane
. A detailed definition of the Causal Body, is provided by A. E. Powell, who has brought together information in the works of Besant and Leadbeater in a series of books on each of the subtle bodies.

Samael Aun Weor

In the tradition of Samael Aun Weor, it is taught that most people have only incarnated a fraction of the causal body or human soul. This fraction is known as the Essence or the Buddhata, which in humanity is bottled up in the psychological aggregates that constitute the ego. Samael Aun Weor states:

Thus, the various aggregates that are within ourselves represent different volitional impulses. There are, therefore, several wills within our psyche which fight against each other. The intellectual animal doesn’t have any autonomous, independent and unitotal will. There is no unity in the intellectual animal’s willpower. But when a man has created his Body of Conscious Will [causal body], he has individual willpower he can work with in the whole universe.[6]

The way to create the causal body is by working in the "Forge of Cyclops", that is, sexual alchemy between husband and wife.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Compare kenosis and Juan de la Cross' Dark Night of the Soul.

References

  1. ^ Sharma 2006, p. 193.
  2. ^ a b Bahder & Bahder 2013.
  3. ^ a b Siddharameshwar Maharaj 2009, pp. 31–32.
  4. ^ a b Ranade 1926, p. 155–168.
  5. ^ Blavatsky, Helena. The Key to Theosophy. pp. 121, 174.
  6. ^ Samael Aun Weor. "Man and the Universe That Surrounds Him". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-03-25.

Sources

Published sources

Web-sources

  1. ^ a b Divine life Society, Bases of Vedanta
  2. ^ Dr. S. Yegnasubramanian. "Tattva Bodha of Adi Shankara Part 2" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2014-05-31.

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