Lecture III

Bit by bit, the person must free themselves from everything that has connected them to the sensory world. Kamaloka is the state in which the person frees themselves from everything that chains them to the sensory world. It is completely influenced by the sensory life that one has led in the physical world. If a person has been completely absorbed in the senses, their kamaloka life will be long and difficult. Usually, however, life in Kamaloka takes up the third part of the duration of earthly life. In images, as beings that torment us, the past life appears before the soul of the human being in Kamaloka. Here everything is reversed: what was satisfaction appears as deprivation. Hot sensuality brings the feeling of horrible and cold beings. Yet the burning thirst always remains. The more a person is detached from physical life before death, the easier his dying has been, the easier it will be for him to wean himself from the sensual world. This weaning is most difficult for the suicide. For he deceives himself: he does not consider that he forcibly carried out the separation from sensual life and that therefore an unspeakable greed for his physical body seizes him, holding him close to the physical world. A similar, albeit milder, fate befalls those who have suddenly lost their lives in an accident. Such a death also leaves behind a craving for the physical body, but later on, compensation takes place in devachan. Once the soul has renounced earthly desires, it enters the devachan state.