552. My Three Bodies…DEHA TREYA!!!!

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Atma (Soul) is apparently clad in three bodies and enjoys three corresponding states. The physiological system of my body is called Sthula-Deha (Physical Body). The Vital, Psychic, and Intellectual system of my body is called the Sukshma-Deha (Subtle Body). The Blissful Consciousness, the awareness principle is called the Karana-Deha (Causal Body).

Charvaka Muni, the founder of quasi-philosophical Indian school of materialist thought ask thus:

 “Bhasmi-bhutasya dehasya punaragamanam kutah rnam krtva ghrtam pibet yavad jivet sukham jivet”

Meaning- once your present physical body is burnt to ashes there is no question of coming back, so long as you live, live happily, incur debt and relish ghee. - in other words they encourage Svechachara “path of one's own will” which is close to selfish and self-centered nature. According to the Carvaka philosophy, there is no mind or soul independent of the body, the body is all, after the death of the body there is nothing else since the body is all...

They are logically correct as they are talking only of the Sthula-deha (Physical body) but what happens to the Sukshma-deha (Subtle body) also called Astral body. Our Subtle body which consists of our mind and intellect has the impressions of our unfulfilled ambitions and untold desires at the time of death in our previous birth. To fulfill those ambitions and desire a new body is required in the subsequent life.

Let us try to know what happens to the three bodies at the time of death? At death the Physical body is either buried or consigned to flames at cemetery but the Subtle body is airborne and it travels astral after physical death. It experiences the requital and is full of remorse recalling the events that had happened in the life span at that period. Subtle body does have thirst and hunger though it does not have physical senses to project those sensations. Hence Hindus believe in offering pinda (rice balls) to the departed soul, the subtle body by merely looking at the offerings gets sated. Causal body does not travel anywhere as it is it is the Mula Garbha (Original Embryo) or the source of the body often related as Paramjyothi (Light of Paramatma). It is the puddle into which Physical body and Subtle body merge in death and emerge out again at birth.

It is more important to know the connection between the three bodies. Subtle body is not an essential matter, but happens to be existent due to Vasanas (Tendencies) and Samskaras (Impressions) that are stuck to it over the period of many births. Let us suppose there is a mirror and I place it before the sun, if the sun ray is incident ray a reflected sunlight falls on the wall towards which I hold the mirror. What is the cause for the reflected ray? Is it not the lead behind the mirror? That lead is what I presume to be the Vasanas (Tendencies) and Samskaras (Impressions) that are stuck over the past births on the Subtle body which was at the beginning a crystal clear glass plane. It is the lead behind the clear glass plane which makes it behave like a mirror. If the Subtle body is non existent then there is no requirement of yet another Physical Body after the fall of the existing one. Therefore Vasanas and Samskaras are the reasons for Punarapi jananam punarapi maranam, Punarapi janani jatare sayanam- Again and again we are born, again and again we die, thus again and again we sleeps in the mother’s womb.

Hence Amritha Bindu Upanishad says thus: 

“mana eva manushyaanaam kaaranam bandha mokshayoh” 

Meaning -It is mind which is responsible for liberation or bondage.

Mind has to be free from tendencies and impressions it has to survive on present alone. Once this happen Atma which was clad with the three bodies get merge with Supreme Soul and annihilating the cycles of birth and death......Do you agree?