Sukshuma sarira - the astral body

 

My question to AI:

 

Osho uses this metaphor, 'astral body' in his writings.  Is it the same what Maha Swami refers to as sukshuma sarira?

 

Sarvashri AI:

 

Yes, Osho's "astral body" and Maha Swami’s (Maha Periyava) "sukshma sarira" refer to the same overarching metaphysical layer of existence, but they are framed within completely different maps of consciousness. While both point to the intangible, non-physical vehicle that carries memories, desires, and karmic imprints across lifetimes, their technical breakdowns differ.

 

Coming back to our scribbling:

 

At the outset like AI gives its disclaimer, the Readers may do their independent reading, research, consulting experts before they make their conclusion.

 

When I read the word disclaimer, one quintessential குறள் that splashes is, with due respects to all,

 

"எப்பொருள் யார்யார்வாய்க் கேட்பினும் அப்பொருள் மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு".

 

 

Back again to the topic:

 

Sukshuma sarira - the astral body

 

Is there a layer beyond physical frame whether in lifetime or several life times?

 

What?! Several life times????!!!

 

Is it matter for scientists or health experts to make their own theories?

 

Not for an ordinary man or lay individual?

 

May other religions wouldn't subscribe and endorse that there is nothing, literally away when one's life ends. Their notion is everything ends with the last breath and no thing, nothing beyond.

 

But we believe in karmic succession life after life, karmic effect trails regardless of whether we do good or not so good - punya or to say bluntly paba, .  Like camphor dissolves and go traceless, the karmic effects travel ceaselessly until the time total liberation happens. Karma just does not restrict itself to doing anything physically; it involves how soulfully we do a work also.

 

We are not here to prove anything.  It is up to one to have one's own perspective.

 

Yet, we could refer to a real life incident that Osho narrated in his 'Hidden Mysteries':

 He cites the real life story of Edgar Cayce, a devout Christian who died in 1945.  Edgar had a fall from a tree.  The treating doctors had almost given up.  To them, Cayce in deep coma, could die any moment.  Suddenly even as he was in coma, to the shock of the Doctors, he uttered certain herbal compound could get him back on the feet.  The herbs had to be mobilized.  Doctors felt why not we try. They did and Cayce was back on his feet.   The wow thing is Cayce was not any expert in any herbs in his current Avatar.  The herbs he referred to were all remnants of his memory spread over various births.