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The perfection of consciousness

Darwin's theory focuses only on biological aspects. The Big Bang theory is the beginning of the evolution of consciousness. This creation point is the first urge.

The state of the man's consciousness during sound sleep is literally the same original divine sound sleep state of God.
Latent in this Infinite state is the undifferentiated and unmanifested "Everything". Including the "Nothing".

Enter the Big Bang---- the manifestation of the First Urge. God unconscious aka The infinite Soul ( the vast ocean in which we are but a drop) , in a tremendous shock, experiences its very first gross impression as it identifies itself with the projected Nothingness.

---------Who am I?

In this experience, the first illusory separation (sense of separate identity) takes place in the undifferentiated. The Soul, still not conscious of its true Self, becomes identified with its projected shadow through this very first impression, thus initiating the illusion of duality.


PT 2 The evolution of consciousness


2. Evolution: from stone, to metal , to vegetable , to worm , to fish , to bird, to animal and finally to human.

No voluntary motion, to Upright but dependent, to voluntary motion but horizontal, to movement in water, now capable of flight and somewhat erect, now increasingly erect with more developed attributes, and finally when the human form is reached, consciousness is fully developed and asserts itself through the ideal medium in a fully upright stance.

Throughout this process, every time the soul associates itself with a particular form, it collects, through this medium, and stores impressions of the gross world. When the impressions through association with a particular form have been exhausted, the soul dissociates itself from this form.

Yet the collected impressions must be further experienced and for this the soul starts associating itself with the next more developed form. So when the human form is reached, although consciousness is fully developed, it has a very big collection of impressions that still need to be experienced.

While the soul is no longer in search of a better medium, it has to go through numerous human forms, until these impression gathered through evolution get weakened and finally exhausted.

When the human body dies, the soul retains and further experiences the collected impressions through its identification with the subtle and mental bodies, until it associates with the next human form and takes apparent birth in it.

During the interval between death and birth, the soul experiences intensively an unfolding of the impressions collected, so depending on what quality these impressions have been of (virtue or vice, good or bad), the consciousness of soul experiences either a heaven state or a hell state.

After most impressions have been exhausted, a certain temporary equilibrium is reached and the soul is ready to associate itself with the next human form.

The process of the soul's successive association with human forms is called reincarnation.

PT 3 Liberation

Involution

"reincarnation" refers only to identification and dis-identification with forms conceived in illusion, or association and dissociation with forms.

During reincarnation consciousness tries to liberate itself from the burden of collected impressions. Yet, since it tries to achieve this by associating itself with impressions opposite from the previously accumulated ones, it gets further entangled in accumulating fresh impressions.

Thus the soul experiences itself in a seemingly endless succession of human lives, as a man or a woman, as rich or poor, strong or weak, beautiful or ugly, black or white, in various places, religions, castes etc. It is only after numerous apparent births and deaths, that the range of human experience starts to get exhausted. In this way the soul starts dissociating itself from the gross world, enabling its consciousness to become aware of the subtle sphere

When gross impressions become fainter, consciousness starts turning its focus from the apparent outer world inwards. This marks the beginning of its involution.

Gradually the thinner gross impressions become subtle impressions, through which the soul experiences the subtle world, and as subtle impressions get exhausted, they become mental impressions, through which the soul experiences the mental world.

While doing so, the soul continues to work through its gross medium, seeing, eating, drinking, walking, sleeping, but consciousness is no more entangled with the gross body or world and eventually with the subtle body and world.

when the mental impressions have finally been exhausted, consciousness snaps its connection with Illusion and perceives the Soul directly.

This course of involution is described as the spiritual path. In traversing it, the soul's consciousness crosses six planes, the seventh being its final liberation from all illusion.

PT 4 The Perfect Masters

The first three planes belong to the subtle sphere, the fourth is on the threshold between the subtle and the mental spheres and the fifth and sixth planes are in the mental sphere.

The first plane starts from the threshold of the gross and the subtle sphere.The soul starts experiencing subtle phenomena simultaneously through its gross and subtle senses.It starts hearing subtle sounds and smelling subtle scents, although their nature is far different from their gross equivalents.

Eventually it starts perceiving the subtle world through its subtle body and so comes to the second plane.Here the soul becomes aware of infinite energy. Being not conscious of the gross world,its experience gives rise only to subtle impressions of the sights, scents and sounds of the subtle world.

Further involution of consciousness makes the soul experience the third plane. Here the soul can use aspects of the infinite energy by performing minor miracles.

When consciousness reaches the fourth plane, it finds itself in a very particular state.
It is fully conscious of the infinite potential of energy and can make full use of it and it also becomes aware of the mental world. This new contact creates very strong desires to make use of this huge potential. At this point consciousness finds itself in the biggest danger of its long development. Not being able to control its feelings or thoughts, the soul is strongly tempted to handle infinite energy. If the infinite potential of this plane is misused, consciousness gets completely disintegrated and the soul finds itself back to the stone-form consciousness and has to start again the long course of evolution from there.

If it abstains from using this energy it enters the lower mental plane and if it makes a completely selfless use of it, for the benefit of the spiritual development of others in illusion, it even moves directly to the higher mental plane.

Having abstained from tampering with the energy of the fourth plane, consciousness enters the fifth plane, also described as the lower mental world. This is the inquiring and reflecting state of mind and functions as thoughts mostly. Consciousness on this plane makes one capable of creating or controlling thoughts (but not minds) of gross- or subtle-conscious souls.

Although a soul here cannot yet control its feelings or desires, it is safe from making any misuse of its abilities and is no longer conscious of the subtle sphere and can perform no miracles. With more involution consciousness enters the sixth plane, which is the higher mental world. Here the soul is beyond thoughts and is conscious only of feelings. The soul here sees God "face to face" in everything and everywhere, but it cannot yet see God in itself.

A soul here can master its feelings and desires completely and governs also the feelings (but not hearts) of gross- and subtle-conscious souls. The longing for union with God, or the Divine Beloved, is here in its most intense expression.

Yet the soul cannot bridge this final gap by itself. Only through the grace of a Perfect Master, or Sadguru, can this final union be accomplished. So, in the fifth and sixth planes, predominant is the soul's love for God, as lover of the divine Beloved.

When the soul has gained Self-consciousness, it merges with God in one of three distinct states:

# The soul becomes conscious of itself as God and enjoys eternally His divine attributes of Infinite Power, Knowledge and Bliss, but remains completely unconscious of Creation.
# The soul becomes conscious of itself as God and retains consciousness of Creation but does not use His divine attributes in it.
# The soul becomes conscious of itself as God and uses His divine attributes for the spiritual advancement of others.

Meher Baba says there are 56 God-realized souls on Earth at all times, but only and exactly five hold the office of Perfect Master.

The Avatar appears on Earth every 700-1400 years, and is 'brought down' into human form by the five Perfect Masters of that age to aid in the process of moving creation in its never ending journey toward Godhood.


In spite of his original attainment of God-realization,the Ancient One, is a special Perfect Master, The Avatar.

In ages past this role was fulfilled by Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, and lastly by Muhammad.


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