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Body
See also  Avataar

There are three types of body -

(1) Physical Body (Gross Body) - Bhautik Shareer or Sthool Shareer. It is called Gross Body because it is the combination of all the three bodies. This is the body which live in this world. We can see it, touch it. There are nine stages of this body - (1) conception, (2) growth of fetus, (3) birth, (4) childhood, (5) adolescence, (6) youth, (7) mature age, (8) old age, and (9) death.

(2) Subtle Body (Minute Body) - Sookshm Shareer, or Ling Shareer. This is the body, very small in size, lives inside the physical body, and is the dwelling place of Soul.

(3) Causal Body - Kaaran Shareer. Since Karm never die, they go with the soul. It is a kind of database or storage of all the Karm done in all the past lives. This is the basis of getting new body after a being is dead. It is joined with Subtle Body and never gets separated from it

There are three other types of bodies - 
(1) Empirical Body - that is our physical body, human body, which we can touch and which enjoys life; 

(2) Dream Body which we see in dreams - we cannot see it, we can feel by that body but we cannot touch it; thus although it is a body but still it is not a body; and 

(3) The third body is Avataar's body - they come for some purpose and go away. These bodies have no mind. Because we need mind to get knowledge. Since Avataar don't need any kind of knowledge, because they already have it, that is why they don't need this mind, so they don't have it. Otherwise they are like human beings but certainly with special powers of God. Avataar possesses all the characteristics of God.

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