Tracing My Soul's Journey through the Three Worlds

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 :)