relation of astal and physical bodies

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OM Aspirants

 

Upon reading the file article, Geometry of Circannual Rhythms, by K.

Chandra Hari,I found this statement, "Some adepts of this form of

yoga [Hatha]have developed powers which cannot fully be accounted for

by European medical science and which cannot be explained away as

subjective but the physiological basis of laya - and hatha -yoga is

certainly false; there is no kun.dalinī, susumna or

sahasrāra."

 

Never has any adept claimed that there is a physiological basis for

laya/hatha yoga. In fact, quite to the contrary, any informed person

will state categorically that there is no physiological basis

laya/hatha yoga.

 

Furthermore, to claim as the author does that as there is no

physiological basis for laya/hatha yoga, therefore, there is no

kundalini, sushumna or sahasrara, is an egregious violation of the

rules of logic. One conclusion simply does not and cannot follow from

the other.

 

The truth of the matter is that the astral body, i.e. the system of

chakras and nadis, has a particular shape and the human body takes

its shape because of the shape of the astral body. In humans, there

are points of correspondence between the astral and physical bodies

but there is not identity. The entire point of laya/hatha yoga is

rise above identification with the physical.

 

The astral and physical bodies have correspondence at various nerve

plexii and also parts of the endocrine system. The astal and physical

systems influence each other but remain independent of each other.

Death, as we know, is defined as the astral body simply leaving the

physical body through the sahasrara chakra and severing all

connection with it

 

I have heard and read many people trying to discredit the idea of an

astral body because they were attempting to evaluate it from

physiological and western scientific viewpoints. This approach is a

non-starter and doomed to failure. The conceptual and logical

mistakes of these people is not justification for the denunciation of

the chakra/nadi system.

 

Om Namah Sivaya

 

Omprem