{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-06-30/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"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. 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Kamaloka ist der Zustand, in dem sich der Mensch frei macht von allem, was ihn an die Sinnenwelt kettet. Es wird ganz beeinflußt von dem Sinnenleben, das man in der physischen Welt geführt hat. Ist einer vollständig in den Sinnen aufgegangen, so wird sein Kamalokaleben lang und schwer sein. Gewöhnlich aber nimmt das Kamalokaleben den dritten Teil der Dauer des Erdenlebens in Anspruch. In Bildern, als Wesenheiten, die uns quälen, tritt dem Menschen im Kamaloka das vergangene Leben vor die Seele. Hier kehrt sich alles um: Was Befriedigung gewesen ist, tritt als Entbehrung auf. Heiße Sinnlichkeit bringt das Gefühl grauenhafter und kältender Wesen. Doch immer bleibt der brennende Durst bestehen. Je mehr der Mensch vor dem Tode vom physischen Leben losgelöst, je leichter also sein Sterben gewesen ist, um so leichter wird er sich von der sinnlichen Welt entwöhnen. Am schwersten wird dieses Entwöhnen dem Selbstmörder. Denn dieser täuscht sich: Er bedenkt nicht, daß er die Trennung vom sinnlichen Leben gewaltsam vollzog und daß ihn deshalb eine unsägliche Gier nach seinem physischen Leibe erfaßt, die ihn in der Nähe der physischen Welt festhält. Ähnlich, wenn auch in abgeschwächter Form, ergeht es dem, der durch einen Unglücksfall plötzlich sein Leben verloren hat. Auch ein solcher Todesfall hinterläßt die Gier nach dem physischen Leib, aber später findet dann ein Ausgleich im Devachan statt. 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