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In the previous talk we dealt with Master's
explanation on the nature of man as a bipolar
being, having one end in God and another end in
the grossest level of man. We also tried to make
out that the nature of man has taken its start
from the Ultimate Force or primary Force that
somehow was thrown out of God, which can be
called, the Centre or the greatest potential,
the Zero. By a series of jerks which are due to
actions and reactions, man has developed firstly
a causal body and then an astral body and
finally physical body. There are, of course, in
the creation and even before the causal body, a
series of sheaths and coverings. But these
things have all been produced by a series of
jerks which means that certain kinds of
mechanisms were developed by which the
degradation of energy would take place and
finally it became the inert matter we are now
having as our body. Now, the business of most
of us would be to get back to that original
condition and this is done only through
meditation of the Centre from which we started.
That is, in other words, in mediation we have
the idea of the Ultimate or the original
standpoint namely the Zero as potential. This
idea of that original condition should permeate
all our gross, subtle and more subtle
activities. If this "ideation" is not there,
there will be no possibility of getting the
sustenance from the Original potential even for
the continuation of the gross-body - not to
speak of the subtle body It may be held, as some
people have held, that our business is to
destroy this whole structure of causal and
astral and physical bodies and get back to the
Source. But any physical attempt to do that will
not take us to that condition. There is only one
way towards establishing contact with the
Original or getting back to the Original and
that is by, firstly, an 'ideation' of what we
want to become and secondly, try to make that
idea constantly working in us so that these
subtle and grosser bodies can be permeated with
that idea. You may ask the question whether idea
is merely a thought. It is not only a thought
but a Force also. Further every thought is a
force, but not what we call Force in the
physical sense of the term. Every thought is a
force and this Supreme Thought is the Higher
Force that we can have. And this is in every
man. Now this has to be awakened by meditation.
Now, suppose you try to meditate, you find it
very difficult. That is, you do not have a clear
idea of what that Original Condition is.
Philosophers especially think that just because
they are able to think or visualize that idea,
they have the power by which that idea
transforms our nature. Now, we have, in our
modern world, people who speak about ideology as
if their ideas, even of socialism, have the
power to transform the Individual Consciousness
of every one to whom they speak or preach the
doctrine. I think Shaw was perfectly correct
when he said that these so called socialists are
nothing but the 'perversions of real socialists'
and so he wrote a book also just to show up the
hollowness of the ideal or ideational views of
the present state of the so called
intellectuals. So, you can understand the idea,
in order to be really of value and of power to
restore you to your Original Primal Spiritual
Condition, has to be of a different order, and
this can be done only by a person who has
reached that particular stage and brought that
Force into the line of man. That is the
importance of Pranahuti, and once that Divine
Element is brought to man and given to him as
the Force by which his whole transformation
could be effected, then, you try to start from
below and correct the grossness, correct the
astral body, correct the causal body which has
brought us into this bondage and finally we
become Unlimited one with the entire Universe.
The second point we will have to remember is,
as Master says, both the Universe and the human
individual are made in the same pattern. That
is, the processes that have brought the outer
world into the gross condition which we are now
seeing are the same processes which have taken
place in the human individual by which your body
is seeing and experiencing. Suppose, I correct
this body, human body, which is under our
control and if God helps us to do that by our
process of Yoga, then, we become aware of the
Cosmic or Universal factors and ultimately
understand the nature of the Universe itself.
Unless you understand yourself, you cannot
understand the Universe. Unless you have made
yourself subtle enough, you cannot understand
the forces that are governing the body. And, if
you want to control the forces of the world in
order to make it a better world, it is your
business firstly to become perfectly ourself in
God and this can be done. That is why, when some
people say God is made in the image of man or
man in the image of God, I do not know which way
is correct. The idea is that the principles
governing the nature of God or the Universe
which has the manifestation are identical with
the principles that are governing man who is
also a manifestation of the Divine. Both are
manifestations of the One Divinity and therefore
when the human individual becomes unlimited in
his nature by getting back to that original
condition of God's nature then one will find
that he can know everything about the Universe,
because, if he only attempts to know any part of
the Universe, he will get the knowledge of the
Universe. In fact, he can become technically
'Omniscient' because, any change in any part of
the Universe involves a subtle change in the
human individual and vice versa. Any change in
the human individual will be registered in the
universe although it may be very subtle and
undetectable. But there, if you are sufficiently
sensitive, you can have the knowledge of the
changes taking place when you make changes in
your own constitution.
Another point which Master also emphasizes is
this: He says, every cell within the human
being, (in fact he specially mentions the spinal
cord and the brain cells,) has a potential of
communication with the Universe. He has
extraordinary power to change the face of the
Universe and all talk about Kundalini and
rousing the Kundalini is meaningless. It is not
only that Kundalini is valuable but the whole of
the nervous system is like that. "But nobody
would listen to me" that is what He says, and
"with me try the experiment". But that requires,
you know, one condition that the Supreme
Personality cannot permit you to play with these
forces. It must be for the good of the whole
Universe of manifestation. No human individual
can tamper with the forces. But he can help, if
necessary, for the proper use of the Forces. So,
the possibilities and the potentialities of the
human being are infinite.
And what is necessary now in meditation? We
try to bring 'moderation' in this structure.
Now, what is the meaning of the word
'moderation'? Many of us think 'eat moderately,
speak moderately' and these are the things which
we see as moderation. Perhaps they are. But what
we mean by moderation is, the human element has
been or the material element has been stressed
much more than the Divine element within us. We
tend to lose sight of the Divine Force that is
sustaining our human being. There is the Divine
Force at the back of every cell within our body.
That is why God or the Divine Nature is said to
be parallel to human by Master. In every cell,
there is a parallel divine. If you call it
nucleus, I don't mind. But I do not want these
terms to be identified. The nucleus is becoming
shorter, very small, but the tissues surrounding
it have become bigger and bigger. Therefore,
almost all existence is overweighed on the side
of manifestation or humanity and not so much
stress is laid on the Inner Force that sustains
the humanity. That is, it is an 'immoderate'
business and that is the cause of tension. That
is, manifestation is stressed at the expense of
the power that can and does manifest. We have
more and more of manifestation and less of the
power. That is why we are feeble. We are feeble
because the sanctum by which we have been
sustained is obstructed and minimum. Instead of
having a full nutrition, the manifestation is
starved of nutrition. Now this immoderate
tendency must be changed.
In meditation through the process which our
Master has stated, that is by Pranahuti, the
Supreme Force enters our hearts and brings about
moderations within the body. So, excessiveness
or extensivism is removed and we get awakened.
We have the feeling that thoughts are subdued.
In fact, thoughts are, as far as we know,
material thoughts, manifestation, sustaining
manifestation and perpetuating manifestation,
without asking by which they can be sustained,
by what they can be protected. We do not ask for
that. We want to draw, upon a Bank Account that
does not exist. So we find that immoderation has
developed and this can be corrected only by
getting the Supreme Consciousness once again to
channelise the Inner Force into the outer. So
much so, the Divine Force would be made to flow
into the manifesting, rejuvenating it all the
time and ultimately taking over other directions
itself, without permitting the manifestation 'to
develop its own lines to ruin the system'.
Perhaps, it is a hard phrase, but I could not
help it. So, this is what Master has stated as
the need of Divinisation. Every function within
the body to the least particle must once again
be given the full Force of the Supreme, namely,
the Divine Force, till we work out the
transformation of the Human nature. Though the
form will be the human, he functions and powers
would be of the Divine. By that process you find
that the human really gets transformed into the
Divine Nature, that would preserve all that has
been made in manifestation by God without
bringing forth the evil results that have
accrued to us in this process.
Secondly, the grossness which obstructs the
flow of the Divine and operations of the Divine
would be removed not only in the gross but in
the astral and causal and other levels. Man,
thus will be finding himself continuously with
the Divine at the Source.
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