Devachan

The true radiance of your soul will never die. Your astral body will eventually disintegrate when the very last particle of your deceased physical body dissolves. The prana (your vitality and life energy) which now animates your physical body and keeps you in physical incarnation will return after death to the universal prana or source from which you originated from. Your soul will never die, it is eternal.

In the very last moments of you earthly life when your body appears dead for all intents and purposes, everything you did, said and thought, and experienced in the life just ended will pass in perfect clarity before your inner vision. You will witness the absolute justice and fairness of everything that happened to you in your life and how everything proceeded exactly as it should have in accordance to the unfailing law of cause and effect, action and reaction, known as Karma.

The Silver Cord that connects your physical body with its vitalizing astral energy will permanently break and this will bring about your actual physical death. This occurrence will initiate a profound psyhco-spiritual shock to the soul that will move you into the next part of the process that will take place in a unconscious state.

Unconsciously you will enter into Kama Loka, which is the psychic atmosphere or “astral plane” surrounding and to some extent interpenetrating the physical plane.

How long you will remain in this state will be determined by various factors but primarily by the degree of sensuality and material attraction that characterized the life just lived. What takes place is the separation between your lower, sensual, material nature and your higher and more spiritual nature.

The lower more sensual and material side of your nature cannot enter into the heavenly state and so it has to be cast off here in the intermediate state of Kama Loka. The more spiritually and less materially and sensually inclined, the swifter this will happen. It may only take a matter of minutes or may take several hours, days, weeks, months – or, less frequently, even several years, depending on the preponderance of the lower nature over the higher.

You will not be conscious while all this is going on. When the break between the lower and the higher life  occurs it signifies the complete break from this lifetime and who you were in it. This is known figuratively speaking as the “second death.”

This event will inevitably cause a further spiritual shock to the soul and this will cause you to then enter into what is known as the “gestation state,” a period and state of profound rest and inner recuperation, akin to the deepest sleep you can presently imagine. We cannot speculate as to how long this might last for but in some cases it is far longer than we might think. I think mostly dependent upon the souls karmic load in this most recent lifetime and the

The elements of your lower, earthly nature have now coalesced into a type of psychic shell that remain in stasis upon the astral plane. Your soul, which is also known as the Ego, here using this word in its true and most literal sense has moved on and joined itself with your higher and deeply spiritual self. This is yet another reason why communication with the deceased should not be attempted while the soul is in this purified, temporal state. Let the soul rest.

 The shell in Kama Loka is known as the Kama Rupa, meaning “desire form.” It is soulless and any surviving intelligence it has is basic and automatic. It has no individual consciousness of its own. It is just the amalgamation of the dregs of the lower nature from the lifetime just ended.

Your soul will remain in Kama Loka until all its remaining passion and force completely dissolves and then it will disintegrate completely and cease to exist. This may take weeks, months, or years. again being determined by the life force in your previous lifetime and the amount attraction to the earthly plane. A more powerful life body will take a bit longer to dissipate as well as a more stubborn nature.

I have to pray that none of your surviving friends or loved ones will try to make contact with you after the death of your physical body. It will be impossible for your soul to be reached or communicated with by those on the earthly plane during this time. The laws of Nature ensure that you will not be subject or victim to the misguided efforts of those left behind to make contact with you or drag you back to the physical considerations of earthly life.

Any type of spiritualism, mediumship or channeling is always dangerous and detrimental, particularly to the people doing it. It is always a good idea to allow all departed souls to move through their death process peacefully.

Although the contactors are not likely not realize this but it is only your Astral Shell that they will have any chance of reaching. They will mistake this soulless shell for the real you because of its ability to automatically repeat certain facts, details, characteristics and information which you possessed during that lifetime. The life span of the Astral Body in Fourth Dimension will be prolonged as a result of such meddlesome interference and undesirable situations and problems may potentially arise. Perhaps it would be wise, before you pass away, to ask your family members and loved ones to promise not to try to make contact with you once you are gone. Their goal is to move on to the next spiritual station not linger around the earthly plane. I know this is strange sounding advice coming from a medium but a real medium would never do anything to disrupt a souls dying process.

The real you will eventually emerge from this gestation state and enter into the heavenly state which can be known as Devachan. Devachan in the Sanskrit means ‘deva’, gods, or a “dwelling inside the gods“. Consciousness returns at the door of Devachan. It is not a location or a plane but a state of being. It is actually quite different from the popular religious conceptions of Heaven.

Each individual soul has their own personal Devachanic that is created by ourselves unknowingly out of our own consciousness. It is the exact representation and experience of what you had believed, hoped, and expected Heaven and the other side to be like while you were still alive on earth.

It is a perfect state of the profound bliss, peace, and joy. There is not even the faintest shadow, hint, or trace of sorrow, disappointment, suffering, or pain there. Everyone and everything you had hoped to be there will be there because it is your own mental creation. Even your loved ones who you left behind on earth when you died and who are still physically alive will be there in your state of Devachan. They will not really be there but they will seem to be there, so vivid and realistic that you will never be inclined to question the matter or to doubt the reality of your experience for even one moment.

This process is necessary in order for the soul to reach a state of the highest possible ascension. Your  loved ones who have passed on before you will also be there in your Devachanic state, regardless of how long ago and even regardless of whether they have already reincarnated again.

They will not really be there but they will seem to be there, as perfectly vivid and realistic as when you were with them on the physical plane. Some of them will be having their own Devachan at the same time as you are having yours but the law of perfect justice and bliss requires that we each have our own personal Devachan, entirely of our own making. So there is no actual interaction or communication between departed souls but you will be represented there, as real as life, in your loved one’s Devachanic state just as they will be in yours.

In Devachan there is no memory or awareness of having died or even of there being such a thing as death. Bliss, peace, and joy prevails unfailingly throughout this state. Being a temporary, subjective and a self-created experience it is really a type of dream but a dream just as vivid, tangible, and as well defined as life on earth.

The duration of your stay in Devachan will be in exact accordance with the amount and force of the good or positive Karma that you accrued during the preceding lifetime. This is what sustains and prolongs your Devachanic experience. This will naturally vary greatly from person to person. For you, Devachan may last 1,000 years or even longer. Alternatively it may perhaps last several hundred years or just several decades. Some people return to earth life just after a few years, primarily if the attraction for physical and material existence is a strong force within their soul and spiritual goals left to achieve.

There are no clocks, no timepieces in the Devachan chronometer. There is no real cognizance of time during this state. Even if the period is short; a fact that does not in the least prevent us from enjoying that happiness all the same when it does come. You may also consider that in this connection that time is something created entirely by ourselves; that while one short second of intense agony may appear, even on earth, as an eternity to one man, to another, more fortunate, hours, days, and sometimes whole years may seem to flit like one brief moment; and that finally, of all the sentient and conscious beings on earth, man is the only animal that takes any cognizance of time, although it makes him neither happier nor wiser. 

Either way your Devachanic state will eventually begin to dissolve and draw to a close, coinciding with the process of the reincarnation of your soul, from conception, through pregnancy, and finally culminating in your rebirth back on the physical plane.

You will then have dropped and discarded forever the personality and persona of the previous lifetime and will be embarking upon a new lifetime, incarnated in, through, and as a brand new persona, shaped and determined by your own past Karma. And so the journey of our ongoing inner evolution and unfoldment continues. 

  As Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, “The end of birth is death; the end of death is birth.”