Friends, this discussion on the subtle body is much progressing. I wanted to start a new discussion, but what is that the discussion goes through stages just like the evolutionary process of the universe. It begins, grows, and ends by producing a conclusion. No one can control it. This post also seems to be concluding to me. But still I don’t know how far it should go further.
We were talking about how the bodiless soul experiences itself as a subtle body. The stories of all its previous births are present inside the soul in a subtle form. It feels them as a subtle body. All this is fine, but without a gross body, how will it communicate with others? And how will it develop? See, sometimes it feels one part of the previous births more and sometimes another. It is like the soul with a body sometimes has one thought in its mind, sometimes another. First that thought is also felt in the soul as a subtle experience. After that experience, through the waves of the mind, assumes grossness in the form of that thought. That thought then comes out of the mouth in the form of words and becomes even grosser. When that word does a similar work, then it becomes even grosser in the form of the effect of the work or the world. In this way, grossness keeps on increasing. In this way, the soul expands in the entire world. In the end, this world shrinks and again gets absorbed in the soul. Then the whole process starts moving in the reverse direction. The gross objects of the world become subtle and get absorbed in the organs of action and knowledge. It is like this that the world gets absorbed in the chakras. That is why chakra sadhana is the most important part of Kundalini yoga. By meditating on the chakras, the memories related to the actions and the fruits produced by them or say senses for all of them come in the mind. Anyway, it is said that all the seven chakras are connected to all the senses of the body. It is said in this way that senses get absorbed in the mind. The mind then becomes even more subtle and gets absorbed in the intellect. Meaning that when the thoughts of the mind are dissolved, the intellect becomes sharper because the energy of the brain which was being consumed by the mind is now given to the intellect. The intellect then becomes more subtle and merges into the ego. Meaning that when the energy used by the intellect is not wasted in worldly affairs, it also merges into the ego. Ego means darkness. When a man rejects everything, only darkness will remain. In this darkness, when a man lights the flame of Kundalini through Kundalini Yoga, then in the awakened state it dissolves the ego into the soul, meaning that the experience of the soul is attained for a few moments in the form of Kundalini awakening. This whole game is of energy. When it was extrovert, it kept expanding outwards in the form of vibrant world. When it became introvert, it kept shrinking inwards and finally through Kundalini Yoga, Kundalini got expressed and through that energy it merged into the soul.
This ego is like the soul but it has less consciousness than the soul. Call it the living soul because the entire past history of man is hidden in it in the form of subtle codes. In the end, when the body is left, the ego also merges into the soul. After leaving the body, the ego does not merge into the soul but merges into the living soul. To merge into the soul, one has to experience the awakening of the Kundalini. During the experience of a few moments of awakening of the Kundalini, that ego, that is, the man’s own basic form of the living soul, merges into the soul. However, after that experience, the ego comes back again because no one can live life without the ego. Without it one would be as a perfect and pure soul, but the man having it will be completely like a stump of wood. He will have no reaction left towards the world. Well, when the energy of the ego does not escape, that energy gives rise to Kundalini awakening. All this happens only through Kundalini Yoga. All these elements live in the soul in a subtle form. Sometimes they come out of the soul, sometimes they get absorbed in it. In the scriptures, we find a similar description of creation and destruction, life and death. Even the journey from ignorance to knowledge, that is, from bondage to liberation, through yoga sadhana, is also described in a similar way. Actually, all these processes are the same. There is only a difference in the mindset, purpose, and methods of the process. Here, merging of something into something does not mean that the thing ends. Rather, it means that it becomes subtle, that is, it gets transformed into energy and appears in some other similar form. This is like the saying that the ocean is contained in a pot. It is said in the scriptures that the soul keeps expanding and withdrawing this world from within itself, just like a tortoise takes out its limbs from its shell and keeps withdrawing them inside its shell. Another example given is that just like a spider weaves its web with its mouth and then swallows that web in its mouth, similarly God also creates the entire world from himself, and finally merges it in himself.
Demystifying Kundalini 