When a person emotionally loves another person, such as the mother, wife, husband, child, or even an animal, he creates an emotional tie with the person or animal. When this person or animal dies, the same emotional affinity exists with them. No possession takes place until the departed person or animal leaves his astral body. When the astral body is left behind, the person on earth attracts that astral body, which slowly penetrates his own astral body and contaminates it in a decaying process. The person first feels he is closer to his beloved one, but he gradually realizes that some force is acting independently in his body. Animals, because they live simultaneously in the astral and physical world, see the astral body of a departed owner, and think he is always with them.
Astral bodies all have emotional recordings in them, and they pass all these recordings to the living person. Besides filling his emotional life with confusion, the astral bodies begin to decay, casing unusual emotional problems and heavy depressions.
A contaminated astral body cannot be cured by any orthodox methods. To avoid such a disaster, people must not be attached to their beloved ones. Real love serves and sacrifices, but never attaches. When the beloved one leaves, real love exercises total joy and detachment. Many husbands and wives are obsessed through their attachment. This is the reason why, when one of them dies, the other passes away soon thereafter.
Emotional attachment cannot be translated as a sense of responsibility but as a chemical fusion between two astral bodies. When the person departs, he takes part of the astral body of the devoted one with him. The departed portion of the devoted one's astral body is used as an element of comfort by the departed one, and it is translated by the living one as a deep longing and a sense of depression.
It is this departed portion of the astral body that serves as a link between the two beings. When the power of the departed soul over his astral body weakens, as he leaves it on the astral plane and steps to the mental plane, the living portion of the astral body of the living person is magnetically drawn back to the astral body of the living person. The astral portion of the living person in the astral body of the departed person always nourishes itself by drawing the energy of the living person.
Emotional attachment between two living persons is also not beneficial because the emotional elements, glamors, desires, confusions, and anxieties of each person flow into each other's astral vehicle, creating disturbances, tensions, and irritations. Such a transference is accomplished through the solar plexus center, which eventually becomes super-active and damages the organs connected to it.
-Torkom Saraydarian
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