Saturday 4 January 2020

THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL. --- PART SIX


Master Yukteswar Giri continues....

THE CREATION OF MANKIND

God thought out different ideas within Himself and projected them into dreams. Lady Cosmic Dream thus sprang out, colossally decorated in her endless ornaments of relativity.
In thirty-five thought categories of the Causal body, God elaborated all the complexities of mankind´s nineteen astral and sixteen physical counterparts. By condensation of vibratory forces, first subtle, then gross. He produced mankind´s astral body and finally his/her physical form. According to the law of relativity, by which the Prime Simplicity has become the bewildering manifold, the Causal Cosmos and Causal body are different from the Astral Cosmos and Astral body; The Physical Cosmos and Physical body are likewise characteristically at variance with the other forms of creation.

The fleshly body is made of the fixed, objectified dreams of the Creator. The dualities are ever-present on Earth; disease and health, pain and pleasure, loss and gain. Human beings find limitation and resistance in three-dimensional matter. When man´s desire to live is severely shaken by disease or other causes, death arrives; the heavy overcoat of the flesh is temporarily shed. The Soul, however, remains encased in the astral and causal bodies. (Body signifies Soul encasement). The adhesive force by which all three bodies are held together is desire. The activating power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all mankind´s slavery.

DESIRES

Physical desires are rooted in egotism and sense pleasures. The compulsion or temptation of sensorary experience is more powerful than the desire-force connected with astral attachments or causal perceptions.

Astral desires centre around enjoyment in terms of vibrations. Astral beings enjoy the ethereal music of the spheres and are entranced by the sight of all creation as exhaustless expressions of changing light. The Astral being also can smell, taste and touch light. Astral desires are thus connected with an astral being´s power to precipitate all objects and experiences as forms of light or condensed thoughts or dreams.

Causal desires are fulfilled by perception only. The nearly free beings who are encased only in the Causal body see the whole Universe as realizations of the dream-ideas of God; they can materialize anything and everything in sheer thought. Causal beings therefore consider the enjoyment of physical sensations or astral delights as gross and suffocating to the Soul´s fine sensibilities. Causal beings work out their desires by materializing them instantly. Those who find themselves covered only by the delicate veil of the Causal body can bring universes into manifestation, even as does the Creator. Because all creation is made of the cosmic dream-texture, the Soul thinly clothed in the Causal has vast realizations of power.

SOUL ENCASED

A Soul, being invisible by nature, can be distinguished only by the presence of its body or bodies. The mere presence of a body signifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires.

So long as the Soul of a person is encased in one, two or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he/she cannot merge with the sea of Spirit. When the gross physical receptacle is destroyed by the hammer of death, the other two coverings - Astral and Causal - still remain to prevent the Soul from consciously joining the Omnipresent Life. When desirelessness is attained through wisdom, its power disintegrates the two remaining vessels. The tiny Human Soul emerges, free at last; it is one with the Measureless Amplitude.


(Article/Teaching from "Autobiography of a Yogi".)

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