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as there is a physical body, so there is another body that covers and remains
with the fleshly body. This body is called the Aura. The physical body depends
totally upon this aural body which is made of light. The physical body remains
healthy as long as the aural body of light is healthy. All the desires
associated with life arise not from the physical body but from the body of
light, from which they are transferred and make their appearance in the physical
body. When a person cats bread we see that the physical body is eating the
bread. This is not true; not until the body of light has a feeling of hunger
and so informs the physical body with the sensation of hunger does the person
eat any bread.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
What is the universe? It is a point, and this point is a
divine light, and the divine light is itself a light.
Every point is the imprint of luminescence (Tajalli). When
this imprint transforms itself into the divine light then it becomes Aura
(Jism-e-Misali). The display of the Aura is the physical body.
The physical body is built up as a structure of bones, flesh,
and muscle. The skin is a kind of plaster and color on this building. The life
of the human being who is made up of veins, arteries, nerves, bones, and flesh,
is nothing except senses.
