I’ve never heard this before, in all of my studies of Vedic cosmology. What are your sources for this?
Unless, of course, you’re trying to combine the Many Universes theory with Vedic cosmology?[/quote][/quote]
Check out Sinister Yogis by David Gordon White. Gaining the ability to incarnate as multiple people at once USED to be one of the definitive notions of what yoga/magic WAS until later devotional schools came along. The idea was to actually start doing this while you were here on earth - creating new people to incarnate as, taking possession of young people who die and reanimating them, or taking forced possession of the living. This was once understood to be a capability of any advanced magician or divine entity.
The achievement here is not just immortality, but the ability to work as multiple people to accomplish a wider variety of tasks and maintain and expand your ability to work on the physical plane.
Being one with the All doesn’t just mean being able to create something from nothing, but also being able to bud off into new Samsaric identities. (These, of course, have the potential to develop and bud off themselves.)
The idea is still around, but it’s kept an open secret. If anybody’s a fan of Twin Peaks, this is what Bob was - a black magician who achieved immortality by taking possession of multiple people at once. A lot of Lynch’s work uses “surrealism” so he can talk about shit like this out in the open and just not spell it out verbally.
If you want to explore this area, you should definitely talk to Lucifer.