The
story was retold a little more than two hundred years ago and we modern day humans
became familiar with the scientific concept of evolution of life on the earth
through Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; in a prequel many millennia – 10
approx. – earlier the illumined masters of India had unearthed the secrets of
Creation. The difference between the two theories lied in the fact that while the
former talked about creation sans creator, the latter gave sole credit for creation
to the Creator.
Interestingly,
in spite of tremendous advancements in the field of science, Charles Darwin and
all other evolutionists have not been able to answer many fundamental questions
so far, the most pertinent being: Why did the cycle of evolution stop after
humans?
Intriguing
as it may seem to an unaware mind, the answers lie in the Holy Scriptures
accessible to all the willing and believing souls on the earth. There are
billions who know the truth though most may not fully comprehend the truths.
As
our God-realized saints have told us, God – the ever-present Creator – got the
idea of creation and It initiated the Creation. In the initial moments
everything was in form of idea – thoughts as vibrations. And came the first Cosmic
Sound of Creation from the Creator as Aum (Om). Then the God decided to accord
a solid characteristic to Its creations and came the universe into existence; billions
of years later a few super intelligent species of humans explained it as ‘Big
Bang’. God wanted to experiment further so It let souls emanate from Itself,
again, initially in form of ideas only. The beauty of Its creation was that the
Creator was a part of every single element created and simultaneously was beyond
them as well: Omniscient!
However,
when It carved out souls from Its own self It immediately realized that It had
given away parts of Its own Being and thus wanted them to come back to It! That
would have meant the end of the creation story but It decided to play a bit of
drama so It gave three distinct characteristics to Its universe: the grossest plane
was the physical / material part of the universe, earth included; the next higher
plane consisted of everything made up of slightly condensed form of vibrations
i.e. light; and the highest plane It kept closer to Itself – resembling the initial
stage of creation i.e. in ideational state. God then structured the journey of
a soul to pass through all the three planes of existence before it could come
back and merge in It.
Thus
started the journey of a soul; all souls. Initially the God gave primitive
physical forms to the emanated souls; they had to live the life of respective
creatures and get the higher form of life in subsequent births. The next form
of living body depended upon the actions – Karmas – of the soul in its previous
births. This is how the evolution process progressed karmically. Satisfied with
the advancement of souls through multiple life forms, It decided to bestow Its
own Image to Its best and the highest creation and thus was created the human.
A human being is the Supreme Master’s Masterpiece!
Now,
as the God created the human in Its image itself, It also blessed it with Its Intelligence!
The Divine Intelligence was imparted to the human albeit God kept them latent
in the human mind and the body. God did not want to interfere – as It had not
done so far – in Its Cosmic Life Drama, so it gave Free Will to the human along
with. The human was supposed to exercise the free will and awaken the latent
powers and embark on the path towards reunion with the Source. Human was the
microcosm of the Macrocosm - a miniature God!
The
human life’s journey would have been simple and unidirectional, and one birth
only, had the God thought so. However, the Divine Design was altogether
different! It created the Illusions – Maya! Illusions, the Cosmic Veil was thrown
over the human mind by the opposing and the evil forces in the Nature, again
created by the God itself, enslaving the human being – body, mind & soul - disguised
as temptations and sense pleasures; the Satan/Devil trying to tempt the divine
soul by giving it a limited false identity perception of being apart from the
Supreme Soul and therefore establishing the human Ego - the pseudo soul - as a
diversionary tactic to deflect the soul from its salvation course.
Because
the human body encases the soul divine in nature, its own characteristics at
the core mirrors the God’s: Sat-Chit-Anand i.e. Absolute Being i.e. Truth, Consciousness
and Bliss respectively. This is the prime reason why a person is really happy –
blissful – when he manifests these divine qualities in his daily living.
Nothing else can make a person truly joyful. Rest are all delusions and
temporary. A person knows that he is in contact with the God dwelling within when
he experiences boundless bliss all the time without any influence of external
factors – of fellow humans or material things or so-called events and
experiences. This blissful person’s soul is in communion with the God.
The
state of Divine Communion is achieved by the advanced souls – yogis – with
their consciousness expanded universally and rooted in the Spirit, with
ever-new joy permeating every cell of their body. Simultaneously the person is
beyond the limiting perception of Self as different from the Source; he is
simply there – I am – as a witness to the Cosmic Drama being played out; he
plays his role with utmost sincerity and morality but is absolutely
non-attached to anything in his life; no sorrow or even happiness can disturb
his inner peace and joy – equanimity of mind and body. This person is one with
the God. By realizing one’s Self, he realizes the God. But the soul is not yet
the God.
God
realized souls through Self-realization are the Gurus and saints. At this stage
of existence, the soul is prepared to enter the higher realm of creation i.e.
the Astral World.
However,
for a soul in human body to attain sainthood and be astral-ready may take
several hundred human births. Only when a person works out all his Karmas – in
multiple births - through moral and spiritual deeds guided by profound wisdom with
absolutely no attachment to body, mind or matter or has no desire whatsoever when
his soul gets liberated from the cycles of births and deaths on the grosser
physical world i.e. earth. This free soul gains entry into the finer plane of astral
world where everything exists in its sublime state, i.e. in form of higher
vibrations - light.
Astral
plane is also the abode of all souls after death, whether liberated or
otherwise. A non-liberated soul is sent back to the earth into a human body –
or any other form of creature - based on its past Karmas – to live the life of
that person in a particular chosen family, place and environment - termed generally
as that person’s destiny. At the same
time, the liberated souls in the astral world are assigned duties to guide
other souls on path of liberation. So we see that the soul’s journey is always
directed towards the God in whichever world it may inhabit!
The
divine incarnations like Jesus Christ, Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, and Lord Buddha
are those astral inhabitants who were sent on the earth to show the way of
salvation to humans. These personalities are completely heavenly in their
characters and powers. They perform
their prearranged divine duties and advance into the causal world which is the
finest sphere of existence in the universe in which everything – including souls
– is in ideational form; no embodiment, as abstracts, the ideas which the God
had thought of in the initial moments of the creation. Here the soul is closest
to its Source. Passing a pre-allotted period ironing out the last of creases,
the soul finally attains the perfect state of being as a celestial essence,
enters the Heaven and dissolves permanently into the Spirit. This is the
Nirvana - Moksha, liberation - of the soul.
Now,
whether this God-realized soul will be made to re-enter the cycle of creation
as a primitive being and will be required to live the lives of millions of
creatures before getting born as a human being to work out its hundreds of
karmically linked births and deaths before becoming enlightened and
God-realized through self-realization and enter the astral world and sent back
again as a divine incarnation to guide the mortals and return back to the
Omniscient through the causal existence and merge finally and fully into the
God is something i have no idea absolutely! ... God save all souls from this cosmic
curse!
God
Bless all souls and may every human being be guided by God-realized Gurus
towards spiritual upliftment and realization of self and progress faster on its
salvation journey and gets blessed with communion with the God. Aum :)
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When i became aware of the profound - mind blowing
- wisdom about a soul’s journey my initial reaction was purely transcendental!
Gradually i internalized the eternal truth deep within and gained a new
perspective on my life and the life per se. I could have also acted naive and
remained ignorant and dismissed the entire knowledge as purely tangential for me
the mere mortal, thinking them to be mainly for the exalted souls only, and
would have continued to pass my ordinary earthly existence with my ‘destined’ share
of happiness and sorrows in this birth, not bothering about what happens in my
next births as i don’t remember anything from my previous births. Well, even if
the present life’s few decades are almost insignificant in the millions of
years of my soul’s journey, nevertheless, these few earthly years and my karmas
are extremely consequential in determining my destiny in the future births. In
addition, quality of my life in my current incarnation is strongly coupled with
my consciousness about self which will put me on a faster path towards bliss
and liberation: Sat-Chit-Anand.
God Bless me and every soul :)
