Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00349)

Better to see how people have that in life on earth, maybe they can 
learn than more than looking in the way after.
Christina











-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@...> 
wrote:
>
> [ http://www.anandgholap.net/Theosophy_Pamphlet-Anand_Gholap.pdf - 
Important pamphlet for studying and spreading Theosophy. ]
> 
> " The state of affairs found as actually existing is  much more 
rational than most of the current theories. It is not found that any 
sudden change takes place in man at death, or that he is spirited 
away to some heaven beyond the stars. On the contrary, man remains 
after death exactly what he was before it — the same in intellect, 
the same in his qualities and powers; and the conditions in which he 
finds himself are those which his own thoughts and desires have 
already created for him. There is no reward or punishment from 
outside, but only the actual result of what the man himself has done 
and said and thought while here on earth. In fact, the man makes his 
bed during earth life and afterwards he has to lie on it! This is 
the first and most prominent fact — that we have not here a strange 
new life, but a continuation of the present one. We are not 
separated from the dead, for they are here about us all the time. 
The only separation is the limitation of our consciousness, so that 
we have lost, not our loved ones, but the power to see them. It is 
quite possible for us to raise our consciousness, that we can see 
them and talk with them as before, and all of us constantly do that, 
though we only rarely remember it fully. A man may learn to focus 
his consciousness in his astral body while his physical body is 
still awake, but that needs special development, and in the case of 
the average man would take much time. But during the sleep of his 
physical body every man uses his astral vehicle to a greater or 
lesser extent, and in that way we are daily with our departed 
friends. Sometimes we have a partial remembrance of meeting them, 
and then we say we dreamt of them; more frequently we have no 
recollection of such encounters and remain ignorant that they have 
taken place. Yet it is a definite fact that the ties of affection 
are still as strong as ever, and so the moment the man is freed from 
the chains of his physical encasement he naturally seeks the company 
of those whom he loves. So that in truth the only change is that he 
spends the night with them instead of the day, and he is conscious 
of them astrally instead of physically."
> 
> Complete book can be read at
> http://www.anandgholap.net/Life_After_Death-CWL.htm
> 
> Best regards.
> Anand Gholap
>