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IV. Picture:NOTHING SOLIDContemplation (to be said loudly):Look at the picture with a relaxed gaze, and contemplate:Look at the Sun.Everything else,the zodiac, everything else, is waving.Open up to the Sun.The universe with the sun in the center and the stars surrounding it is amovement, a process.The sun is the only object that is not waving. The vibrating waves are like adrop falling into still water, creating ripples. The rippels are not spreadingoutwards, but they are making the universe waving and expanding. The starsthemselves are also waving. This is the astral universe.That is the way it looksin this condition. It is a blissfull experience.The physical universe is a mirror of the astral (not the other way round). Sowhen we die, we expand out in the astral universe, to which the physical isonly a mirror. The physical and the astral universes occupy the same space,but with different vibrations. So in a sense it is true that we after death expandinto the physical universe.“Looking at the stars while strolling one evening with a group of disciples, theMaster [Yogananda] said:“Each of you is composed of many tiny stars of atoms! If your life force wasreleased from the ego, you will find yourself aware of the whole universe.When great devotees die, they find their consciousness spreading overinfinite space. It is a beautiful experience.”Paramahansa Yogananda: “Sayings”, p. 97.When we die, the bardo we find ourselves in what may be described in thelanguage of modern science, as the reverse of “the collapse of the wavefunction” in a big way; that we harvest what we sow. Whatever we investedinin the life hat has gone, and coloured with our subjective understandings,must loosen up now.The transition from picture 3: “Adventure”, which is opening the door to theastral universe, and thus to the reality in this picture, where nothing is solidbut everything is glimmering and wavering, represents expansion into higherand multi-dimensional consciousness.The expansion after death goes way beyond the ego and towards cosmicdimensions, to the twelve star signs of the zodiac. In spiritual cosmology, thezodiac is the blueprint for dharma. Dharma is - with ParamahansaYoganandas words: “the eternal laws of righteousness, that uphold theuniversal structure and the very existence of human beings.”© 2005 Starbridge Centre/Ulla and Erik SandersenAll rights reserved18