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Namah Vol. 25, Issue 3, 15th October 2017

other dimensions and hence it is perhaps our journey. This may not matter so long
better to go in for a complete change of the as we are unconscious travellers who are
device we use. Normally Nature has created spending our time mostly asleep while the
provisions for the same. But the problem car of life moves on guided by some unseen
is twofold. The true ‘I’ has to go through hands or by a mechanical auto-pilot setting,
the complex process of death and rebirth, if you like. But the problem starts when
a transit during which quite a bit of what one is awake and knows the distance to be
we have accumulated through our efforts covered, the dangers to be overcome, the
is lost and goes back into the store-house of safer routes and the tortuous paths and
Universal Nature. However and thankfully seeks to reach rather safely and smoothly
the essential gains are preserved and kept and consciously without the interlude of
intact in the soul. It is a different mode of rest and sleep. Also the traveller may now
information and is not destroyed by the like to have a better model of car that may
disintegration of matter. It is, if we like, serve his needs better and not be subject
in the form of energy and consciousness. to so much breakdown and repairs that
However when we come back again, this hamper his journey. This is the second
information we carry over from our past problem that even when the essential
in our soul must once again use the device information is preserved, the return is
and machinery of Nature to be able to very much in a similar body with all its
express itself through the new body and attendant issues, its heavy dependency on
under new and changed circumstances. The food, its animal-like propensities (since the
good news is that this allows us to advance human body is at best an extension of the
afresh, to come out of certain grooves of animal and shares a lot in common with
Nature in which we were stuck and which it), its proneness to disease and decay. To
were preventing our soul-growth. It is like this is added the vagaries of unchanged
a fresh opportunity, a new lease of life, life-energy that only sharpens the prick of
so to say. But the bad news is that all this our animal instincts and turns the animal
entails a cumbersome process, a loss of wants and needs into lusts and greed. We
time, a forgetfulness of the past (which is are as if trapped in an animal body. The
in some ways a blessing) which may lead inner being has gone far beyond in its travel
to repetition of the same tendency, and towards divinity but the body denies the
through all this, a tremendous waste of time leap. We are as if caught with one leg in
and energy. At the same time we return to animality and the other in humanity while
the same device, a similar apparatus heavily our mind and soul is rushing to go towards
dependent upon the complex and intricate divinity! This is not a happy state once the
machinery of Nature with all its attendant soul and mind in us have awakened to a
problems. It is like the traveller who steps new possibility and seek to go beyond our
out of a car that has broken down due to human limits.
wear and tear and after resting for a while
boards a new car which is however very An artificial evolution
much the same model and with the same
risk of breakdowns and thereby punctuating It is to this deeper need of the soul that

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