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Just 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 eats 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.
