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The peculiar danger of this will be seen when it is ecollected that since the real man is all the .while steadily TthcJrd^ing into himself, he is as time goes on less and less ,ble to influence or^uide this lower portion, which never- heless, until the'separation is complete, has the power to generate karma, and under the circumstances is evidently ar m&re likely to add evil than‘good to its record.
Apart • altogether from any question of development hrough a medium, there is another and much more requently exercised influence which may seriously retard i disembodied entity on his way to the heaven-world, and Tat is the intense and uncontrolled grief of his surviving xiends or relatives. It is one among many melancholy •esults of the terribly inaccurate and even irreligious view Tat we in the West have for centuries been taking of death, that we not only cause ourselves an immense amount of Tvholly unnecessary pain over this temporary parting from our loved ones, but we often also do serious injury to those for whom we bear ^o deep an affection by means of this very regret which we feel so acutely.
When our departed brother is sinking peacefully and , naturally into the* unconsciousness which precedes his awakening amid the glories of the heaven-world, he is too