The individual life force begins to realise the differences between its present life and that which it had lived in the physical world. For example the individual life force soon finds that all pain and fatigue have passed away.
It also finds that in the astral world desires and thoughts express themselves in visible forms, though these are composed mostly of the finer matter of the plane.
Though an individual life force on the astral plane cannot usually see the physical bodies of its friends, yet it does see their astral bodies and consequently knows their feelings and emotions.
The individual life force will not necessarily be able to follow in detail the events of its loved ones on the physical plane, but it would at once be aware of feelings such as love, hatred, jealousy etc, as these would be expressed through the astral bodies.
Thus, those living on the physical plane often think that they have lost the dead but the truth is that the dead are never for a moment under the impression that they have lost those living on the physical plane. In fact an individual life force living in its astral body after death is more readily and deeply influenced by the feelings of its friends in the physical world, than when it was on earth.
This is primarily because now the individual life force no longer has a physical body to dampen its perceptions. Friends who have become closely united in life, belong together also in the land of spirits. In fact after casting away their bodies, they are in much more intimate communion than in physical life.
An individual life force on the astral plane does not usually see the whole astral counterpart of an object, but only that portion of it which belongs to that particular sub-plane upon which the individual life force is present at that time.
The conditions of life referred to above constitute kamaloka, literally the world of kama or desire. Loka is a Sanskrit word that may be translated as place, or world, so kamaloka is literally the place or the world of Desire.
Kama is the name of that part of the human organism that includes all the passions, desires and emotions which man has in common with the lower animals. In the Kamaloka dwell all the human entities that have shaken off the dense body and its etheric double, but have not yet disentangled themselves from their passionate and emotional nature.
The point to be understood is the existence of Kamaloka as a definite region, inhabited by a large diversity of entities, among whom are disembodied human beings. The individual life force is clothed with the Kama Rupa, or body of Kama, the desire body; a body of astral matter. This state is also called Pretaloka, a preta being a human being who has lost his physical body, but is still retains his animal nature.
The Kamalokic condition is found in each sub-division of the astral plane. When an average man or woman reaches Kamaloka, the spiritual intelligence is clothed with a desire body, which possesses considerable vigour and vitality.
The lower Manas i.e., thoughts related to the sensual perception/objects of the physical plane, closely interwoven with Kama (feelings and desires) during the earth life just ended cannot quickly disentangle itself and return to its Parent Mind, the source of its own being.
Hence in Kamaloka, there is a considerable delay in the world of transition because the desires need to wear out and fade away to a point at which they can no longer detain the soul.