There are three states in an individual’s life: awake, dream and sound sleep states. In the awake state, you use your gross eyes, ears and nose for seeing, hearing and smelling respectively, and so on for all other senses. You use your subtle and not gross body, for all actions in the dream state. Thus, in a dream, you use your subtle eyes for seeing, subtle ears for hearing, and so on. In the sound sleep state, your mind is completely at rest.
There are six stages of consciousness: Unconsciousness, sub-consciousness, consciousness, sub-super-consciousness, super-consciousness and God-consciousness. In the beyond, there is unconsciousness, but everything comes out of this state. In the subconscious state, there are seven stages of gaseous existence. Consciousness begins from the stone form, where it is very rudimentary. The seven-stage, with-form evolutionary process culminates in the human form, when consciousness is fully developed. But due to accumulation of sanskaras during this process, you do not become conscious of God.
Had there been no accumulation of sanskaras, you would have become conscious of being God, the moment you took the first human form. But due to innumerable sanskaras, the wheel of birth and death rotates in a zigzag fashion. That is, the soul takes the male form, then female form, good-bad, ugly-beautiful, rich-poor, and so on in the process of reincarnation. And after every death, sanskaras are shaken up
At last, the process of involution begins, when the mind’s consciousness becomes subtle. The mind persists up to the fifth plane (in the form of thoughts); it works through itself. In the sixth plane, the mind does not work, but becomes the inner eye and sees God, face-to-face. In the sixth plane, there is super-consciousness. In the seventh plane, the mind is annihilated and you achieve God-consciousness.
In the dream state, you use your subtle body and experience sub-consciousness, but the subtle body is very hazy, just like vapour or a cloud. But when you are on subtle planes – from first to fourth planes – you experience sub-super-consciousness with the subtle body. The experience of the subtle body is very bright.
When a qutub (highly evolved person) works on the subtle and mental planes, he has not to exert his physical body at all. But on the gross plane, exertion is necessary for his working in the physical world, in order to help animate and inanimate objects in gross consciousness. The majzoob (who is almost there) of the seventh plane is called by Vedantists ‘bal-unmant-pishash’, and termed by Sufis as the ‘prince’. The sadhguru, qutub, is called the king, and the avatar, rasool, is king of kings.
In eternity, there is neither past nor future; there is only the eternal present. But in the awake-dream state, past and future hinge on the present. The dream, while sleeping, is a dream into dream. This dream of sleep is of three kinds: pure dreams, hallucinations and nightmares. Hallucinations and nightmares have no connection with past and future, unlike the pure dream that is connected. In the awake-dream state, there are some rare ones who can foretell the future, but this has no connection with spirituality. In the ordinary awake- dream state, we also connect the past with the future
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Courtesy: Economic Times, Speaking Tree, 31st January, 2019
There are three states in an individual’s life: awake, dream and sound sleep states. In the awake state, you use your gross eyes, ears and nose for seeing, hearing and smelling respectively, and so on for all other senses. You use your subtle and not gross body, for all actions in the dream state. Thus, in a dream, you use your subtle eyes for seeing, subtle ears for hearing, and so on. In the sound sleep state, your mind is completely at rest.
There are six stages of consciousness: Unconsciousness, sub-consciousness, consciousness, sub-super-consciousness, super-consciousness and God-consciousness. In the beyond, there is unconsciousness, but everything comes out of this state. In the subconscious state, there are seven stages of gaseous existence. Consciousness begins from the stone form, where it is very rudimentary. The seven-stage, with-form evolutionary process culminates in the human form, when consciousness is fully developed. But due to accumulation of sanskaras during this process, you do not become conscious of God.
Had there been no accumulation of sanskaras, you would have become conscious of being God, the moment you took the first human form. But due to innumerable sanskaras, the wheel of birth and death rotates in a zigzag fashion. That is, the soul takes the male form, then female form, good-bad, ugly-beautiful, rich-poor, and so on in the process of reincarnation. And after every death, sanskaras are shaken up
At last, the process of involution begins, when the mind’s consciousness becomes subtle. The mind persists up to the fifth plane (in the form of thoughts); it works through itself. In the sixth plane, the mind does not work, but becomes the inner eye and sees God, face-to-face. In the sixth plane, there is super-consciousness. In the seventh plane, the mind is annihilated and you achieve God-consciousness.
In the dream state, you use your subtle body and experience sub-consciousness, but the subtle body is very hazy, just like vapour or a cloud. But when you are on subtle planes – from first to fourth planes – you experience sub-super-consciousness with the subtle body. The experience of the subtle body is very bright.
When a qutub (highly evolved person) works on the subtle and mental planes, he has not to exert his physical body at all. But on the gross plane, exertion is necessary for his working in the physical world, in order to help animate and inanimate objects in gross consciousness. The majzoob (who is almost there) of the seventh plane is called by Vedantists ‘bal-unmant-pishash’, and termed by Sufis as the ‘prince’. The sadhguru, qutub, is called the king, and the avatar, rasool, is king of kings.
In eternity, there is neither past nor future; there is only the eternal present. But in the awake-dream state, past and future hinge on the present. The dream, while sleeping, is a dream into dream. This dream of sleep is of three kinds: pure dreams, hallucinations and nightmares. Hallucinations and nightmares have no connection with past and future, unlike the pure dream that is connected. In the awake-dream state, there are some rare ones who can foretell the future, but this has no connection with spirituality. In the ordinary awake- dream state, we also connect the past with the future
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Author’s personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing."
Courtesy: Economic Times, Speaking Tree, 31st January, 2019