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In his book ''Autobiography of a Yogi'', [[Paramhansa Yogananda]] provides details about the astral planes learned from his guru.<ref name="Paramhansa Yogananda 1946">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iN6fdZR6rXkC&pg=PA400 |title=Autobiography of a Yogi |author=Paramhansa Yogananda |year=1946 |publisher=The Philosophical Library, Inc |isbn=9788120725249 }}</ref> Yogananda claims that nearly all individuals enter the astral planes after death. There they work out the seeds of past [[Karma (Hinduism)|karma]] through astral incarnations, or (if their karma requires) they return to earthly incarnations for further refinement. Once an individual has attained the meditative state of [[nirvikalpa|nirvikalpa samadhi]] in an earthy or astral incarnation, the soul may progress upward to the "illumined astral planet" of Hiranyaloka.<ref name="Paramhansa Yogananda 1946"/> After this transitional stage, the soul may then move upward to the more subtle causal spheres where many more incarnations allow them to further refine before [[Satcitananda|final unification]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reluctant-messenger.com/yogananda/chapter_43.htm |title=Autobiography of a Yogi |author=Paramhansa Yogananda |year=1946 |access-date=20 July 2011}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Archangel]]s

* [[Astral projection]]

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* [[Chakra]]

* [[Dream world (plot device)]]

* [[EsotericReligious cosmology]]

* [[Plane (esotericism)]]

* [[Pure land]]