Levels of spiritual revelations and realizations in OIDA
The levels of spiritual revelations and realizations provided by OIDA-therapy – Veda department – are beyond the universal representation of Divinity. There is a spiritual realm which allows entrance for the soul. Before we enter into that realm we need to understand the psychological potential necessary for participation.
There is a cognitive potency, awareness potency, and a potency of the soul to move from place to place.
We all know that we have an ability to move about. Because of this we are here in this room, we moved here. We are moving around a lot, some more, some less. As far as moving about in the physical sense, this can be facilitated in many ways. But also it has many limitations. If you look at Saturn at night you might say “Well, tomorrow I’ll be on Saturn”. But it will not happen. But you can say Tomorrow I’ll be in Berlin” and it might happen.
We have a limited capacity of motion. This consciousness, which directs our bodies to go in a certain direction, goes far beyond the physical, observable level. The subtle body or linga sarira can move independently in the dream state for instance. When people leave their material bodies at the moment of death, they are actually traveling in their astral bodies. The subtle body is also limited in its movement but in a different manner when it is still in a physical body. The physical body is facilitated and restricted in its movements. The subtle body is also facilitated and restricted in its movements according to the karmic reac
tion to the current state of the individual. Vedic scriptures acknowledge that the restriction upon the movement of the astral body starts when it goes to a region above the Earth inhabited by ghosts or spirits after leaving the body. But as such they can also return here on Earth, being very concerned about and still attached to the previous bodies and lives they had on this Earth. So, the souls go to the region of the ghosts but they can also descend to this level. That is their limitation, their movement.
There are others who are not restricted from going to higher planetary systems. Whenever someone reaches the moment of death, or let’s say when a particular karmic cycle is finished, they are going to be transferred to their next destination upon the ladder of the evolution of consciousness (see chart: “Destinations which can be reached by the soul”). It will be considered what their actions were in their past lifetime and what their thoughts and desires were at the moment of departing this last stage of his/her life. We could say that a balance is made of his/her actions in this past lifetime (but not for the soul’s entire existence). This is the crucial moment when our free will is restricted. We are entirely dependent on the laws and the grace of the Supreme Controller. This is also a reason why the moment of departing this life is of such importance.
The region of the ghosts mentioned before has many varieties and many different names. There is much suffering on that level and not much importance is attributed to it in OIDA-therapy, due to the inaccessibility of these regions to us. But in many mystical traditions the situation is addressed: sanctified food is offered for the departed souls, wakes and laments are held and holy names are sung to help them to overcome their previous karma and facilitate their transfer to the next level where spiritual progress will be easier. Others pray in cemeteries. Some believe that if you become a pure devotee of the Lord you can even free your ancestors from ghostly existence.
Compassion for the departed reaches those areas as well, and it is also known from Vedic tradition that Lord Shiva is very merciful to ghosts when they approach him. By taking shelter in higher powers the problems of the individual soul can be resolved by grace.