IN the last blog post ,I wrote about the Ganga drowning her 7 kids and what does that mean to us or the explanation. One of the children is ABHAS CHAITANYA OR also called reflected consciousness. So what is this reflected Chaitanya or consciousness and does it die with death or is it carried or is it destroyed? The reflected Chaitanya is reflection of the consciousness. The examples that are given by many to explain are that of sun light and moon light. As we know ,the moon has no light of it's own and so what we see as Moon Light is actually the reflection of the Sun light. There won't be any Moon light ,if there is no Sun, even though we do not see the Sun. The same way if there is no Moon, there won't be an object o reflect the Sun light and there won't be Moon light . So we need the Sun and the Moon to have the moonlight. The sun light has some qualities and they are there in moon light too. The same holds true of the consciousness and the the reflection of the consciousness. The Reflected consciousness is called CHIDABHAS. We all as physical bodies and the subtle bodies and causal body combination have the reflected consciousness . Without this consciousness - though reflected - we could not do any thing. The reflected consciousness shines light on mind and so we can think. It shines light on intellect and so we can do intellectual decisions.
Everything in this universe has the reflected consciousness . The plants have the reflected consciousness and the animals have it and even the stone or table and chair etc. all have reflected consciousness . But in chair or table , there is no mind - intellect and so there is no 'thinking' . or intellectual decision . The plant and animals have some evolution of mind and intellect and so there is some thinking and decision making ability.
Upon the death - actually physical body dies . But the ASTRAL - SUBTLE BODY or also called Subtle body or SUKSHMA SHARIR, continues it's journey along with the CAUSAL BODY -KARAN SHARIR - and so there will be the reflected consciousness . The standard example given is that of pots with water and reflected sunlight in them . If a pot breaks - leaks - the water can be poured in a different pot and then there will be reflected sun in it. This is what happens when we die and are reborn . We have new POT - new PHYSICAL BODY , but there is no change in reflected consciousness. The consciousness or the reflected consciousness DOES NOT do anything . It is Mind - Intellect that does the actual work , but they could not do anything if there is no shining by the reflected consciousness.
We can look at a mirror It has a glass and there are chemicals applied to the glass and there there is a frame.So the frame is like physical body and the glass is like subtle or SUKSHAM SHARIR - body. and the chemical applied is like Causal or KARAN SHARIR At the time of death the FRAME is broken - gone - nonfunctional. Butthe glass and the chemical applied to it is still there and so the SUN can still be reflected in the mirroor ,even though there is no frame or the physical body..