10 May 2015 - QA 12

Many people believe that there is a certain non-manifested part of our physical self. Could you please talk about it?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You are correct. There is a physical body and a casual body. The casual body is much larger. What is your experience when you are happy? An expansion happens. There is something in you that expands, and when that expansion happens you feel happy. And when the same thing contracts, that is the time when you feel frustrated.

What happens whenever you are upset or unhappy? There is something in you that shrinks. This something that is contracting and expanding, it is non-physical or ethereal. This is an obvious experience with everybody. They cannot deny it.