Repeating the gesture of " Vikalpa-ksaya " with all thoughts, as they appear, there is a gradual transformation at the subconscious level ( causal body ), leading towards identity with " Shiva ".
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Griffin also teaches that the human form consists of not one, but four interlinked bodies : the physical body of flesh, the subtle body of energy, the causal body of mind, and the supra-causal body of Universal Consciousness.
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Griffin also teaches that the human form consists of not one, but four interlinked bodies : the physical body of flesh, the subtle body of energy, the causal body of mind, and the supra-causal body of Universal Consciousness.
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The common person only contains the lunar vehicles of emotion ( astral body ), thought ( mental body ), and will ( causal body ), concentrations of the collective animalistic intelligence, the evolution of the Essence through the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms.
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In the subtle and the causal body, the nadis are channels for so called cosmic, vital, seminal, mental, intellectual, etc . energies ( collectively described as " prana " ) and are important for sensations, consciousness and the spiritual aura.
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The higher part of this body, containing the spiritual elements gathered during life, merges after death entirely into the causal body; while the lower part, containing the animal elements, forms the Kama-rupa, the source of " spooks " or apparitions of the dead.
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In mystical approaches eudaemon is sometimes defined as a symbol of " higher self ", or the individual in the " causal body . " As well it is a symbol of intelligence on the " buddhic plane " and higher esoteric planes, which assists evolution and is related to the higher thoughts and emotions.
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The program includes special gymnastics, breathing techniques, psycho-dynamic actions on hormones and nerve plexus in order to ascend to what corresponds to body and, though not being body, makes up the whole of the energetic bodies permeating the organic one with the purpose of finally reaching the causal body where the immortal I resides.
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Of the three limitations, only the first one, " anava mala ", which is the basis of the other two, is impossible to surpass through effort alone, without the help of divine grace ( " shaktipat " ) . " Anava mala " is manifested as residual impressions existing in the causal body ( subconscious mind ).
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So there is a physical body that is the vehicle of consciousness on the dense matter of the physical plane; an etheric body, which is formed by the etheric matter found on subtler counterpart of the physical plane; an astral body that corresponds to the astral plane; a mental body which belongs to the lower mental plane, and a causal body, or vehicle of the individual soul, which is located at the level of the higher mental or Causal plane.
