Four Sheaths Of Physical Body
All the man’s evil and good deeds are stored in casual body for eternity and it grows from life to life as the individual makes any progress spiritually. It is so called as all the causes reside in this body and it carries all the characteristics of the man from all his previous lives.
It does not surround the physical body like the other subtle bodies, which have therefore been termed garments. Actually, therefore it does not form a subject for this Chapter. It is however included here as it is the seed body. This is on the other hand the tiny seed formed at the top of the mental body vertically above the top of the head about 15 inches, by fusing of all the subtle bodies after lifting them up vertically as horizontal rings, fusing them with the 4 sheaths of the physical body and depositing at the top of the Central axis.
This is the body that has to take birth again sooner or later after its sojourn on other planes or immediately after physical death depending on the development of the man. It is composed of a delicate colourless film of subtle matter and being thread like is the ’sutaratma’. This marks the stage of the individual in the evolutionary process.
The Self enclosed in the fused stuff of the subtle bodies in general and specially of the mental body, forms the seed body that is ready for incarnation and takes birth from the womb of a woman The parents supply only the physical body and its characteristics while all the inherent properties like intellect and spiritual growth depend on the causal body of the individual which is permanent and lasts to eternity till there is no birth and death and the spirit is set free after completion of the evolutionary process.
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