by Sean M.Clarke

Created on: December 13, 2008

Burial Vs Cremation
Introduction
Every year more than 50 million people die worldwide. The two main forms of funeral rites adopted by most are either cremation or burial. Through spiritual research methodologies, we have examined the effect of each of these types of funeral rites from the point of view of helping our ancestors in the afterlife.

What happens to the physical and subtle body of an average person after death?

When a person dies only the physical body is shed, but the subtle body consisting of the mind, intellect, ego and all the desires in the form of sheaths continues to exist.
At the time of death, excretory gases are expelled from the dead body. Since they are gases exiting a decaying body, their frequencies and vibrations are negative in nature and as a result the tama component increases in the immediate surrounding environment. Ghosts (demons, devils, spirits etc) get attracted to these negative frequencies and enter the environment around the dead body.
The ghosts attack the dead body by gaining control over the five vital energies and sub-vital energies, which are in the process of being released into the Universe from the body at the time of death. They emit black energy in the form of smoke on to the dead body, engulfing it and creating a black covering on it. This smoke is invisible but can be perceived through one's sixth sense (ESP). Due to the attacks by ghosts, there is a transmission of black frequencies into the dead body and the corpse gets charged with these black frequencies.
After the ghost gains control on the physical body and five vital energies and sub-vital energies, it turns its attention to capturing the subtle body of the dead person.
The subtle body of an average person is generally full of worldly desires and hovers around in the Earth plane. It has a subtle link with its previous physical body, both in the form of attachment to it and also through the vital energy which is released into the atmosphere over a period of a few days. Ghosts use this subtle link to get to the subtle body. It begins to ensnare the subtle body by transmitting whorls of black energy towards the subtle body. It thus pulls the subtle body of the deceased into its field of attack.
Then they trap the subtle body into a web of black frequencies. This impedes the free movement of the subtle body and thus creates obstacles in its onward journey in the afterlife. After some time, many ghosts join the attack on the subtle body by creating further whorls

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