Friends, knowing the state of the soul after death is a very complicated task. Yamraj had told this secret to Nachiketa of Kathopanishad out of compulsion to fulfill his promise of giving a boon. Yamraj had said that no one knows the complete secret except him, even the gods etc. The soul is endowed with a subtle body. It means that the soul can do all the work done by a living being. Then does the Supreme Soul also have a subtle body? The scriptures say that the Supreme Soul is beyond the gross, subtle and causal bodies. But then how can the consciousness of the Supreme Soul be proved like that of the soul? Consciousness is proved only by the body and the work done by it.
It is said in the scriptures that when the time of Pralaya was over, the Supreme Soul expressed his wish that he was getting bored alone, so he should change his form from one to many. This started the development of the universe. Desire comes from the mind, and decision is made by the intellect. The ego of one’s own feeling is present in the Supreme Soul too. This is pure ego, not distorted arrogance. Then the work of creation and development of the universe, which is supposed to be done through the organs of action and knowledge, was being done by God in a way. He is doing the same even today. The life force or pranas that operated those organs was also inside God in a way. This means that all the organs or qualities of consciousness are originally of God. The Gita also describes the Lord’s form with a huge body. In this form, the Lord has innumerable characteristics, such as He has many faces, many eyes, many arms, and many legs. Later these consciousness expressing organs and qualities were created in the ordinary organismic or human body, in which the soul started residing. The soul is also a part of God. After coming into the body, it forgot the infinite consciousness of its original God-form and got bound to the limited consciousness of the body. Then whatever consciousness the body had, the same amount started residing in it. After the death of the body, the consciousness of the body used to merge into it as subtle body. That is why the consciousness of the soul of animals is less developed. That is why the soul of an animal does not come to meet anyone nor can it talk to anyone, because the animals themselves are not able to talk. The fact that God has been described as being beyond the three bodies, it seems to mean that these three bodies are of God too, but He is not bound by them, and does not waver even a bit from His complete Sachchidananda form. Isn’t this surprising? This is the highest level of detachment. Overall, there seems to be no religion greater than detachment. I feel that all religions and rules are contained in this. Humanity, which is the most basic foundation of religion, is also connected to detachment.
Yes, so we were saying that a person’s consciousness goes into his subtle body after his death. The scriptures also prove this point of mine. It is mentioned in the scriptures that one attains heaven by doing good deeds. By doing good deeds, a person’s nature and outlook also become good. Due to this, his subtle body also becomes good. It is said that only a good subtle body can attain heaven. The gross body cannot go to heaven. There is also a saying that one cannot go to heaven without dying. It means that the consciousness of a person’s subtle body which increases due to his good deeds, is what gives him the happiness of heaven after death. Consciousness is happiness, consciousness is knowledge, consciousness is bliss. Heaven is happiness, heaven is knowledge, heaven is bliss. Similarly, the scriptures say that one goes to hell by doing bad deeds. By doing bad deeds, a person’s nature and outlook also become bad. Due to this, his subtle body also becomes bad. Bad subtle body is said to go to hell. It means that the consciousness of a person’s subtle body decreases due to his bad deeds, that is, its inertia increases, and that itself gives him the pain of hell after death. Inertia or unconsciousness is ignorance, inertia is sorrow. Hell is ignorance, hell is sorrow.
It is clear from these things that the consciousness of the soul increases through Kundalini Yoga. Soul is synonymous with the living soul here. The pure soul should be called the Supreme Soul. It is already supremely conscious. How can its consciousness increase? At many places, confusion is created by differentiating between soul and living soul. Well, it is not like that. They are explaining in detail. However, even if the word soul is used for both soul and God, the meaning of the word should be understood according to the subject. But not all people have the same level of intelligence. Kundalini Yoga clears the garbage of thoughts in the subtle body. This gives the man the power to work and to acquire knowledge. He does this with detachment because yoga makes his nature like this. Also , detachment saves his power from being wasted uselessly. He does good work because most good works are done with detachment.
Demystifying Kundalini 