Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story
“In a way, everyone is a ghost. Whether you are a ghost with the body or without a body is the only question.” ~ Sadhguru
10.1 What Are Ghosts
Life extends beyond the body as well. That is why you have what are generally known as ghosts. All beings, embodied or disembodied, are playing out their lives only as per their karmic structures.
GHOST
A ghost is a being who has left his body, usually, in an unnatural way; but his tendencies still persist due to unfinished Prarabdha Karma. If his tendency, when alive, was pinching people; he will still want to pinch even after his body is gone. But he can no longer have conscious intention because the intellect is gone. Such a being will have a denser presence if his tendencies are very strong. You can feel those tendencies. If you happen to see ghosts it is your psychological response to those tendencies. It has nothing to do with that being. Existence in the form of a ghost is considered undesirable because it can unnecessarily extend for a long time. If he were in a physical body, maybe his Prarabdha Karma would have lasted for another twenty years. Now that there is no physical body; so the lifespan may last for 200 or 2000 years.
CELESTIAL BEING
A celestial being is also a disembodies being but he is not a ghost. He is aware because he lived and died in a certain sense of awareness. He has refused to take another body. He is looking for ways of dissolution.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO GHOSTS
You are basically responding to tendencies that are external to you. These tendencies are not out to harm you. They are simply operating compulsively according to some genetic memory. They don’t have a discriminatory intellect to choose. They may be intense, mild or meek. They may just hang around certain places per their memory. They are everywhere in some way. This is the reason why processes exist to clear out such influences.
NAGA DOSHA
Besides humans, only cobras and cows are capable of having a subtle body. Naga Dosha happens when a disembodied cobra has touched you somehow. Your skin breaks into rashes and begins to peel away in scales. It looks like psoriasis but is not exactly psoriasis. It can also create a very strange sense of stillness and movement. It can cause people to have serious hearing impediments. People are known to recover from it totally by doing Naga Pooja.
NOTE: It appears to me that, just like the water cycle, the being, upon death, evaporates into the thought space (universal mind). There it may collect other vibrations similar to it and, thus, become more condensed. It may then precipitate into a new body that is forming in a pregnant woman, especially when it resonates with its vibrations.
10.2 Ghost Troubles
If you are vulnerable, these ghosts (external tendencies) can “possess” you, and thus influence your actions. But, if you have the quality of meditativeness, you cannot be possessed. A person who is easily frightened, can, however, be terrorized; and it can lead to situations that are fatal. But, if you have raised yourself to that level of awareness where you can feel these beings, you will have no problem with them.
10.3 Ghost Solutions
These disembodied beings exist only in the level of awareness in which they left. They are in a stagnant state that has a certain lifespan. They can be trapped and used for selfish purposes; but it is a very negative karma to do so, because these beings are, in a way, very helpless creatures. Disembodied beings can be helped and dissolved. To do so we just break their karma. For a disembodied being, the karma is in the energy body. This karmic structureis held by certain pins or chakras. So all we do is pull those pins and the karmic body just collapses. But you have to know what you are doing.
10.4 Dissolving Frozen Beings
Dissolving people in their disembodied state is a much easier thing to do, if the necessary conditions are in place. This section provides Sadhguru’s experience with dissolving a couple of disembodied beings.
10.5 Nirmanakaya
There are yogis who are nirmanakayas. Nirman means ‘to create’, kaya means ‘a body’. It is very rare that this would happen, but there have been some beings who have done that. These yogis are of the highest calibre and are able to materialize their body at will. But the phenomenon has been too exaggerated and presented in many distorted ways.
10.6 Downloading Beings
An ancient idea has been to create an ideal being who can transform the whole world in one shot. Many yogis have put their inputs into this being. This being is expected to mature and find a body in the world about now; and he will be the ultimate teacher in the Creation.
There are beings who are highly evolved and are reluctant to take on a new body. They are looking for a suitable vehicle through which they can fulfill the final phase of their lives. If you have done sufficient work and preparation and are absolutely willing, they can be downloaded into your body. It is a different level of sadhana altogether. The existing being dissolves completely and the downloaded being takes over the body. It is a very complex operation.
After having been here for this long, if we could not produce sufficient beings here of such a level of evolution, then we have to import them from somewhere. I hope such a need will not come to us, for we are doing good work.
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