Guest guest Posted May 17, 1996 Report Share Posted May 17, 1996 Dear Bhagavatas, I hope you wouldn't mind if I raise a minor question in regard to the beautiful and profound piece "Dialog on Hinduism post #6". Here the invisibility of the jiva and the vital airs are to taken to imply their atomicity. Would I be right to assume that the atomicity refers to the constituent particles? According to another interprettation, which in fact has been borne out by the experience of certain evolved souls, subtler bodies underlie our gross body eg., the sUkshma sharira (Subtle body) and the subtler Karana sharira (Causal Body). What leaves the body at death is the sUkshma sharira and the subtler bodies it encloses. (sUkshma sharira contains the mind, and the experience of after-death states in accord with one's deeds in the preceeding lifetime are experienced in this body) All these subtler bodies are unvisible because they are composed of finer constituents. Sometimes, "finer" is understood to mean that they exist in a higher vibrational state. I could not understand in what sense. Perhaps it means that the finer particles that constitute the subtle bodies present (in physical terms) very small ("atomic") interaction cross-sections (like neutrinos) to visible matter. Perhaps they exist in a different physical dimension that may be difficult to visualize from our conventional sense experience. I hope you all do not mind this trifling point. Thank you. Hari Om srikanth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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