During the course of meditation, one day you will feel that you have separated yourself from the body. You will have immense joy mixed with fear; joy in the possession of a new light, astral body; and fear owing to the entry in a foreign, unknown plane. At the very outset, the new consciousness is very rudimentary in the new plane, just as in the case of a pup with newly opened eyes on the eighth or tenth day on the physical plane. You will feel that you have a light air body and perceive a rotating, vibratory, limited, astral atmosphere with illumination of golden lights, objects, beings, etc. You may feel that you are rotating or floating in the air and consequently there is fear of a fall.
You will never drop down, but the new experience of subtlety generates novel feeling and sensations in the beginning. How you leave the body, remains unknown at the outset. You are suddenly startled, when you have completely separated, and when you enter into the new plane, some times with a blue- colored sphere around, sometimes with partial illumination mixed with darkness, while at other times with extremely brilliant, golden, yellow, defused illumination. The new joy is inexpressible and indescribable in words. You will have to actually feel and experience it yourself (Anubhava). You are unaware of how you left the body, but you are fully conscious of your returning. You gently feel as if you enter smoothly, gently through a small hole or fine tube with an airy, ethereal feeling. Just as air enters through the crevices of a window, you enter with the new astral body back into the physical body.
I think I have expressed the idea lucidly. When you have returned. You can clearly differentiate the life in the gross and subtle planes. There is an intense craving to regain the new consciousness and to remain in the state always. You are not able to stay for a period of longer than five to ten minutes in the new region. Further, you can, in the beginning, hardly leave the body at will, through simple willing. By chance , through efforts, you are able to separate from the body once in a month in the course of sadhana. If you plod on with patience, perseverance and firmness, you will be able to leave the body at will and stay in the new plane for longer period with the new subtle body. You are quite safe from identification with the body. You have made conquest of Deha-Adhyasa, only if you can leave the body at will and stay in the new region for a long time, say for two to three hours. Your position will be quite secure only then. The practice of mauna and steady regular meditation is absolutely necessary to achieve this end. After continuous hard practice, you will be able to separate yourself from the body very frequently. As soon as you silence the thoughts and calm the mind, the mental habit of sleeping from the physical body supervenes automatically. There will be no difficulty then.
The writer did not knew where the soul going after come out of body.He said unknown place.
What is the purpose of this experience? At best it is anatma exper-ience within time and space. This is not a state of MOKSHA or LIB-ERATION.The so called joy or exhilaration has a beginning and end. I don’t think anyone aspiring for MOKSHA should give any importance to such experiences.
Very sensational to see the pictures. and the separation of physical body.
Mahaathma!
I wish if I could have this ‘Anubhava’!
— Doorvaasa
I am interested to know what purpose does it serve, what are the benefits ?
The feeling of the Atma or Jiva Atma emits from the body and watching your physical body lying down could be the same experience that many narrated experiences of life after death. Even if we are able to achieve this experience for few minutes or seconds be assured your meditation is in the right direction. I believe that only when one goes to meditation in the Shava Asana posture, he experiences this state. When physical body becomes Shava, the soul experiences the Shiva. I have never experienced this state, but wonder if it is possible with present level of karmic levels that ordinary humans like me. I feel that one should put in efforts into this before discarding or criticizing the writer as they are much learned and share their experiences.
All mystics are within the Nature’s Law and of subconscious mind. Conscious mind know each and every thing of Nature and don’t go beyond where a limit restriction is there so we say physical/material and spiritual. Yogi the knower of death can do when in Samadhi not only for self but also along with other self not in the sense of crossing limit.