The Three Planes

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of gross matter, which is really just energy. The Subtle The subtle plane,

or Antarloka, is the mental-emotional sphere that we function in through

thought and feeling and reside in fully during sleep and after death. It is the

astral world that exists within the physical plane. The astral plane is for the

most part exactly duplicated in the

physical plane, though it is of a more intense rate of vibration. We function

constantly, though perhaps not consciously, in this subtle plane by our every

thought and emotion. Here, during sleep and after death, we meet others who are

sleeping or who have died. We attend inner-plane schools, there to advance our

knowledge. The Antarloka spans the spectrum of consciousness from the hellish

Naraka regions beginning at the patala chakra within the feet, to the heavenly

realm of divine love in the vishuddha chakra within the throat. The Vedas

recount, "Now, there are, of a truth, three worlds: the world of men, the world

of the fathers, and the world of the Gods. The world of the Gods is verily the

best of worlds."

Roman"> The Causal The causal plane or Sivaloka, deep within the subtle

plane. It is the superconscious world where the Gods and highly evolved souls

live and can be accessed through yoga and temple worship. The causal plane is

the world of light and blessedness, the highest of heavenly regions, extolled

in the scriptures of all faiths. It is the foundation of

existence, the source of visions, the point of conception, the apex of creation.

The causal plane is the abode of Lord Siva and His entourage of Mahadevas and

other highly evolved souls who exist in their own self-effulgent form--radiant

bodies of centillions of quantum light particles. Even for embodied souls, this

refined realm is not distant, but EXITS WITHIN man. It is ever-present,

ever-available as the clear white light that illumines the mind, accessed

within the throat and cranial chakras--vishuddha, ajna and sahasrara--in the

sublime practices of yoga and temple worship. It is in the causal plane that

the mature soul, unshrouded of the physical body's strong instinctive pulls and

astral body's harsh intellectual stranglehold, resides fully conscious in its

self-effulgent form. The Sivaloka is the natural

refuge of all souls. The Vedas intone, "Where men move at will, in the threefold

sphere, in the third heaven of heavens, where are realms full of light, in that

radiant world make me immortal."

------------------------Satguru Sivaya

Subramuniyaswami Sivaya Namah

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