Cosmic Journey

Three Planes of Consciousness

1. The Gross Plane (Physical Plane):

Body + five senses
Eating, sleeping, working, relationships
What the eye sees, what the ear hears

This is what we call the "outer world."

2. The Subtle Plane (Astral Plane):

Dreams, imagination, the deep experience of meditation
Light, symbols, light beings seeming to appear
A feeling of weightlessness, as if the body were elsewhere, drifting

This is what we call the "inner world" or the "realm of symbols."

3. The Causal Plane (Causal Plane):

Here there is no form, no symbol
Only infinite light, love, bliss
The sense of 'I' dissolves
Everything becomes one

This is what we call the "primordial source" or the "world of unity."

To put it simply:
Gross plane = the waves on the ocean (visible to the eye)
Subtle plane = the currents moving beneath the water (invisible yet palpable)
Causal plane = the ocean itself—infinite, deep, undivided.

In the silence of meditation, when all hope shatters, there comes a moment of wordless surrender. It is in that very moment that consciousness makes itself known—the body left behind, as if one has begun walking a mountain path.

This experience is not imagination, not dream, not even lucid dreaming. It is as if the true "I" of self-awareness steps beyond the body onto another plane—into an invisible realm that some call the astral plane.

In the distance appears a luminous being—faceless, radiating light alone. No words are spoken, yet direction comes: turn your gaze toward what lies ahead. And in the next instant, a vast blue-white sphere of light rushes forth, egg-shaped, and completely engulfs consciousness.

Still, a faint trace of individual self remains, but it swiftly dissolves. Wave after wave rises from within—of love, of compassion, of liberation. Guilt, fear, despair—burdens carried so long—all melt away. Then the individual self vanishes entirely. Time ceases to exist, space ceases to be, identity leaves no mark. What remains is only—boundless bliss, indescribable fulfillment.

Then a constellation of stars blazes forth—at first like festival lights, then recognition dawns—this is the entire cosmos. Before existence opens a complete vista—where all things are balanced, all things perfect, all things known with utter clarity.

When sight returns, it is no longer the sight of before. Eyes are new, body is new, all around is new. Everything and everyone is utterly beautiful, gloriously beyond imagining.

Later, in the language of experience, one might say—the encounter with the luminous being belonged to the astral plane, and the dissolution into the blue-white sphere of light was the causal plane.
Thus does one cosmic journey erase the old identity and reveal the birth of a new being.