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Updated: May 25, 2025

"You have read in the scriptures," Master went on, "that God encased the human soul successively in three bodies-the idea, or causal, body; the subtle astral body, seat of man's mental and emotional natures; and the gross physical body. On earth a man is equipped with his physical senses. My work is with those astral beings who are preparing to enter the causal world."

Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi