Spiritual Practice - I. LAMA

it is the Truth. Also, Mara can quite easily pretend to be both the Almighty and the Absolute. It is also worth noting that the evil devil who revels in the suffering of souls is a character invented by the people and has nothing to do with reality. In fact, Mara only cares that, as soon as possible, the souls can wash off their bad karma. Usually, when a person dies, it is Mara who comes to him as the first guest, frightens him and invites the person to become the ruler of the world. That's a lie, he can't do it. Therefore, by the time of death, a person should memorize the phrase: “would you go”.

● People; the world is formed by love attachment. Love attachment in the world of people is revered as a virtue. The world is connected with the anahata chakra. Sattva energy prevails here. When a person is reborn, this world appears blue.

● Prety; hungry spirits. The world is formed by greed. In the world of prets, self-interest is revered as a virtue. The world is connected with the manipura chakra. Sattva energy prevails here. When a person is reborn, this world appears yellow like sand. Describing the world of pretas, European authors often call this world hell. What is the difference between the world of prets and the world of hell? Hell is pain: either from cold, or from hot, or from cuts, or from blows, or something else, but in any case it is physical pain. There is no such severe pain in the world of prets. The world of prets is also called the world of hungry spirits. It would be more correct to call this world a world of global dissatisfaction. If hell is a terrible world, then the world of prets is just a gloomy world. The world of prets is very similar to the world of homeless people in the trash. It is often found in the sources that the world of prets is placed below the level of the animal world. This is a mistake. It is connected, as already indicated a little earlier, with an incorrect interpretation, a confusion of geographical mutual location and spiritual level mutual location. In the scheme proposed here, the worlds are located not according to the geographical principle, but according to the principle of "what is higher, what is lower" on the spiritual level. And, therefore, prets are put above animals here. Insofar as prets, unlike animals, have primitive speech, have primitive consciousness, primitive reason. Moreover, according to the descriptions of this world, it can be understood that the Pretas even have public works. In one of the descriptions of this world, it was said that the guards forced the population to work. There was a road with a special surface. So this road was first built by several groups of prets, and then this road was dismantled. And this, at first glance, strangeness, was very "wisely" justified. Such a circular simultaneous construction and destruction of the road solved the problem of employment of the population. Despite the lower spiritual level than humans, illusionism technologies are developed in the world of prets, including those based on hypnosis and magic.

● Animals; the world is formed by ignorance. In the animal world, there is a law of struggle for survival. The world is connected with the svadistana chakra. The tamas energy prevails here. When a person is reborn, this world appears green. Some spiritual and philosophical schools recognize the animal world as a model of harmony, the highest perfection of a great creation. With a closer look at the structure of this world, such a view does not stand up to criticism. The main dissonance of this world, for example, is that the souls of those animals that are killed for food are forced to suffer.

● Hell; the world is formed by hatred. The world is connected with the muladara chakra. Rajas energy prevails here. When a person is reborn, this world appears black. In hell, they fear the destruction of hell the most and hate death the most. In the last fear, an amazing similarity of all beings of the world of phenomena is revealed.

The structure of the middle causal is similar to the structure of the upper astral. The structure of the lower causal and lower astral is similar to the structure of the physical world.

Anthropomorphism

Homo created himself in his own image and likeness

The population of reality and the astral is overwhelmingly anthropomorphic.

This means that the beings of many worlds where form is possible are close in their structure to the human form. This is a universal form.

It turns out that the human form is used not only by beings similar to humans: gods, asuras, prets, creatures of hell – but even by those who, at first glance, do not look like a human at all. For example: dragons, animals, insects, fish, birds.

All beings have an image of their body in their consciousness. That is, any being, seeing the world, sees himself in this world. So this vision of oneself is anthropomorphic for all beings. That is, it seems to any creature that he is a human being.

A dog, for example, running on four legs, seems to be a human being. Just for speed, it is now, because of a slightly incomprehensible state of the body, it is more convenient for her to run on four legs. It's just faster at the moment. But when she is not in a hurry, she can stand on her hind legs completely freely, and stand and move like an ordinary person. She perceives the rest of the people as ordinary, equal people, as her friends, too. The rest of the dogs she perceives as dogs.

A dolphin, for example, swimming in water, also perceives himself as a person who is in the water only because he knows how to