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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 4, 15th January 2022

of the being and help him evolve further. enter into wideness of thoughts and embrace
universal powers that operate through and
Life as a phenomenon seems to be flowing in guide limited personalities. The higher life
unison but there are diverse streams involved ultimately helps in opting for a spiritual life,
in it and they become distinct once we focus which is not punctuated by death any more
a clear eye on them. The spiritual purpose as death transforms itself into punctuated
behind each aspect of life is known only when memories called `experiences`, sometimes in
all these streams are known and mastered a waking state, sometimes in a sleep state but
a
and till then even spiritual life is bridled by most evidently in the state of samadhi where
mental opinions and beliefs. the individual life is an eternal continuum of
universal life and ego is completely dissolved
A sublimation of these sinister emotions and personality remains only as a frame of
begins to occur as a sense of observation action. These spiritual experiences are the
and detachment allows mind and thought ‘time-loops’, where past, present and future
to come in and guide the vitality. The higher consummate into an eternal continuum and
life is the mastery over these animalistic the inner space begins to engulf outer space.
behaviours to achieve higher goals. Mind, a Our inner being accidentally or wilfully enters,
plane of consciousness higher than life, begins visualises and experiences the whole sensory
to come into touch with the higher life but it content of a spatio-temporal phenomenon that
is allowed only for a subservient purpose of is spread before the ten motor and sensory
helping it. The vitality in higher life uses mind appendages of a living being by the influence
as a lever to unleash its capacities but does not of the universal life energy that ceaselessly
obey it as its master. It dictates the mind to connects stellar and planetary movements
serve its purposes or listens to the mind only with terrestrial movements.
for its pleasant soothsaying capacity but does
not care to analyse each and every moment An inevitable urge in universal nature
and attain perfect control over the external pushes every living being to move out of the
movements under the mind`s light. Even cyclical impermanence of lower life into the
the opposite may happen that an imperfect affirmative permanence of higher life. But
mind without sufficient foreknowledge or this journey into higher life is so tardy and
spiritual authenticity may guide the vitality complex that often one slips back into the
to its peril, a catastrophe so commonly seen lower life and is forced to start the upward
in day-dreamers and luck-believers. journey again. As the higher life reaches its
culmination, the person begins to experience
Ego, the joystick of life, assumes a new name, the permanence of his spiritual self. He
the personality, in higher life but a dissection understands that the causal beginning of
of the personality reveals the same motives of every movement of his life lies in him and
ego in heightened proportions. The higher life he is left alone to himself either to act on his
reaches its culmination only when the mind own or to follow the compelling stream of the
understands that the ego is a temporary outer world. He feels sufficiently enriched
representation of the self and the death of with inner experiences that awaken the
ego or the lower self allows the being to knowledge continuum of the outer world

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