The Soul usually isn’t thought of as a body, but it is a unique Consciousness. This Consciousness is fulfilled by experiencing Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram. The Causal body is satisfied by the appreciation of the harmony of life. The Astral body is fulfilled by the delight of the senses with music, art, nature, love, and connectedness with the whole of humanity. The Physical body feels fulfilled with activity or action that is beneficial and healthy for the body.
When we look for the fulfillment of the Soul and the three bodies, we look for the activities that are in harmony with nurturing the bodies. For the Physical body, we can use Karma Yoga, or doing for others, doing beneficial exercise or service, eating foods and drinking liquids that are beneficial to the body.
For the Astral body, we look for what is uplifting for the human spirit. Art should be uplifting to the human spirit; it should inspire the human spirit. Anything can be said in a creative way, but when it is negative or tamasic, it will bring pain and suffering. The Astral body desires, delights in, and needs the nutrition of art, music, and creativity. We need to begin to look for beauty, inspiration, and upliftment. We can retrain ourselves in this way to constantly be looking for the beauty, the Om Sundaram, Om Shivam, and Om Satyam. If we don’t retrain our self, we will miss the beauty. Photography, used for the specific purpose of taking pictures of beauty, will help retrain us to look for the beauty and harmony.
With the Causal body, we can develop appreciation and acceptance of the diversity of life, of the creation. We begin to appreciate and study this diversity, just as it is. We aren’t appreciating what it will do for us, but we are learning to appreciate life as it happens. We will then begin to delight in it. We don’t live without discernment. As an example, we can appreciate dirt in our garden as we grow our plants and flowers, however we do not want it in our bed. We discern and appreciate patterns of living energy for its nature and what its purpose is. This appreciation is inclusive of the Physical action, the art and creativity of the Astral (senses), and the harmony or interwovenness of life at the Causal (mind). The harmony, interwovenness, and appreciation of life includes our awareness of life all the way from the Christ/Krishna Consciousness to the mineral kingdom. The appreciation, delight, and harmony is the Om Shivam that helps fulfill the heart, mind, body, and Soul.
Being in a state of openness, having an open heart, mind, and Soul, is living in a state of Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram. When we are living in our nature, we will naturally be doing the things wholistically. At this point, we will be living and fulfilling our dharma, fulfilling the purpose of our Soul. We may never fully see what our total dharma is, because that is God’s vision, but we will be able to tell by the joy, love, bliss, and even waves of ecstasy, when we are living our dharma.
This begins with breath awareness, and then expands to prana awareness, and then expands into our Wholistic or Divine awareness. We begin to retrain our limited habits and ideas, and begin to expand our whole consciousness.
