When they go to the abode of God, their physical body is left behind here. It is written in the Upanishads that the subtle body is shed when one reaches the boundary of this universe. So we all understand that when one is bathed in the Viraja River, the subtle body is shed. And the causal body is not going to be shed. The causal body is not made of any element. The causal body is emotional, it is full of vasana. So that vasana has settled in the jiva. Call it emotion or call it vasana. It gets converted. It is not shed. Your question is something like that, isn't it? Gyanji Swami has a similar question from Junagadh. Yes. That God's abode is beyond the realm of Prakriti, so how does the meditation, upasana, faith in God, or overcoming of nature, etc., that we have done while living in the realm of Prakriti, work after death? So it simply means that the actions we have performed while having body-consciousness, result in the fruits of merit and sin. When they go to the abode of God, when they please God and go to the abode of God, Maharaj comes here itself and gives them a divine body and frees them from this body. Once the divine body is obtained, the subtle body is shed. But what we call the causal body is emotional. It is a reverse emotion, that is why it is called the causal body. We should love God, instead we love the world, so that became the causal body. The pull, the attraction that happens in our heart, in our jiva, we immediately say upon seeing a good thing, "What a nice car this is." Someone might have bought a new car, a very nice car. So our jiva gets pulled towards it. We wouldn't tell them, "Give it to us." But our jiva does get pulled, thinking, "Brother, if there is such a nice car, if we had it, it would be good." If someone is a gentleman, he wouldn't wish for it, but in his mind he would think, "If we had this, it would be good." Like that. So our jiva got pulled towards worldly objects, and that became the causal body. And if the same pull is towards God, then it is not called the causal body. It is called a divine body. So the causal body is not destroyed or discarded. But it gets transferred. "Transforming life," we have made some such slogan, haven't we? "Transforming life." So "transforming life" means it gets transferred. The same love that one has for the world, if one develops that same love for God, then the causal body remains as it is, it is emotional. So whatever sadhanas we have done here, we do those sadhanas with the physical body. Then over a long period of time, or through various means, that emotional aspect enters our subtle body, and then that emotion enters our jiva. So then wherever our jiva goes, it happens. It goes along with it. The worship we have performed does not go along with us. But the achievement made by performing worship goes along with us. When a merchant sits at the counter, the customers who came do not go home with him in the evening, but he puts the money earned from them in his pocket and goes home. Similarly, the means we have used do not go along with us. But as a fruit of those means, the love for God that develops in our jiva, that goes along. Swami's question is exactly that: does this love for God, meaning meditation, upasana, etc., become firm in the causal body or does it become firm in the jiva? Gradually it becomes firm in the causal body. An example was given that when a drop falls on iron, it gets wet. But gradually it rusts. Then gradually a layer forms, and then a hole is made, it gets corroded. A hole is made right through. Even if it is a big channel, it gets made. Similarly, we have now performed prostrations with the physical body, turned the beads with the physical body, and served God with the physical body. If one keeps doing it with emotion, it keeps descending into one's jiva. And one's jiva becomes Brahman-realized right here. It becomes emotionally Brahman-realized. And then, when the lifespan of this body is over, this body falls away. Just as if one wants to make an idol, in the olden days they used to make a wax idol. They would make a wax statue, then cover it with clay, and then leave a hole in it. And they would pour molten five-metal liquid into it, so because it is hot, it would melt the wax and it would displace it. And the wax would flow out of the hole. And the metal would take its place. And when it is completely filled, then it is done. Once filled, they would shake off the clay, and the statue would emerge from within. Like that. By performing actions related to God, our inner body keeps changing. Inner body means the emotion keeps changing. The subtle body is elemental, so it does not change. The eyes remain eyes, no other change happens in the eyes. The ears remain ears, the 19 elements remain exactly as they are. But what changes? Its emotion keeps changing. The attachment, attraction, love, passion that one has towards God, they all reach their full potential. As one keeps performing actions, provided one does it with connection. And if one does it with purpose, in a state of alertness. "Why am I doing this? Why am I performing this service of God?" If one does it with such alertness, it happens in a short time. "When I worship God, am I doing it because it is a routine, or is there something in my mind?" So if one keeps doing it with alertness, one's jiva keeps getting filled with that emotion. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details