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DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS - Part 1
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"The mind which follows the rambling senses, makes the Soul
as helpless as the boat which the wind leads astray upon the waters."
Bagavad-Gita.
MAN is man by virtue of milling, not by virtue of knowing and understanding. As he is, so he sees. His hopes and aspirations are in exact proportion to the depth and power of his will: for, says Emerson, "The height of the pinnacle is measured by the breadth of the base." He is the microcosm of the macrocosm: the little world of the big world. The universe exists for the self: -such is the dictum of the sages. Man has appropriated this form, this coat of skin, for the exercise and unfoldment of his Divine Nature. He is above Nature, his body is of Nature. Man, Know Thyself, was mandate of the Delph Oracle. All your efforts, your joys and sorrows, your ups and downs, are to this end. You now grasp this thing, . soon you drop it; then you grasp that thing; soon you drop it;-Not this, Not that, you say. This is the speech of Negation: neti, neti: Not this, Not this. You who are Infinite in essence drank deep of the waters of Lethe and falling under the magic spell of Maya, forgot yourself. You have ever since then been identifying yourself with Nature, with your form, the Not-self. You do not see that this body, this brittle casket of clay, is for disintegration, for dissolution. You love it to infatuation. You draw the cruel, merciless knife across the neck of poor, defenseless animals to gratify your lower Nature. This body must live, though I eat burnt flesh, rotten flesh, to keep it alive. Man would eat man, if his digestion did not get upset, thereby. Do not say 'No/ you animalized ignorant soul! You swallow camels and yet you strain at gnats. Thus through extreme attachment to your form, have you contracted your soul, hypnotized yourself into a finite being. You alone can strip off your limitations and stand in your Native splendour once again. To realize this is to realize divinity-is to transcend Nature! As you learn to control Nature within you, so will you control things outside of yourself, so shall your great, all-potent will shine out to the universe. Man's will is God's will. What is of God is God. The Infinite exists, in full stature, in each living, breathing form. Hence to know yourself is to know God. You are Bliss Eternal. You, the Infinite, became confined in sheaths of matter. Your real, immortal self shines aloft, but what little was caught up by the physical mechanism of Consciousness, fell senseless under the hypnotic suggestions of Maya. Yet an impulsion from within is pushing you on. This is the I Desire to achieve happiness which is a distorted reflection on the physical plane of your own blissful self that is on the spiritual. It is the natural magnetism of your real self that is drawing you up. Ends ascend as Nature descends, said Swedenbourg, the Mystic. All things are in a scale; and begin where we will, ascend and ascend. All things are symbolical; and what we call results are beginnings: Emerson, on Plato, the philosopher.
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