Guest guest Posted January 22, 2002 Report Share Posted January 22, 2002 Dear Friends, In "Autobiography of a Yogi" Swami Sri Yukteswarji says: "The causal world is indescribably subtle. ... If by [this] superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter. There one perceives all created things - solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, gods, men, animals, plants, bacteria - as forms of consciousness, just as a man can close his eyes and realize that he exists, even though his body is invisible to his physical eyes and is present only as an idea. "Whatever a human being can do in fancy, a causal being can do in reality. The most colossal imaginative human intelligence is able, in mind only, to range from one extreme of thought to another, to skip mentally from planet to planet, or tumble endlessly down a pit of eternity, or soar rocketlike into the galaxied canopy, or scintillate like a searchlight over milky ways and starry spaces. But beings in the causal world have a much greater freedom, and can effortlessly manifest their thoughts into instant objectivity, without any material or astral obstruction or karmic limitation. "Causal beings realize that the physical cosmos is not primarily constructed of electrons, nor is the astral cosmos basically composed of lifetrons - both in reality are created from the minutest particles of God-thought, chopped and divided by maya, the law of relativity that apparently intervenes to separate creation from its Creator. "Souls in the causal world recognize one another as individualized points of joyous Spirit; their thought-things are the only objects that surround them. Causal beings see the difference between their bodies and thoughts to be merely ideas. As a man, closing his eyes, can visualize a dazzling white light or a faint blue haze, so causal beings, by thought alone are able to see, hear, smell, taste, touch; they create anything, or dissolve it, by the power of cosmic mind. "Both death and rebirth in the causal world are in thought. Causal- bodied beings feast only on the ambrosia of eternally new knowledge. They drink from the springs of peace, roam on the trackless soil of perceptions, swim in the ocean-endlessness of bliss. Lo! see their bright thought-bodies zoom past trillions of spirit-created planets, fresh bubbles of universes, wisdom-stars, spectral dreams of golden nebulae on the skyey bosom of Infinity! "Many beings remain for thousands of years in the causal cosmos. By deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself from the little causal body and puts on the vastness of the causal cosmos. All the separate eddies of ideas, particularized waves of power, love, will, joy, peace, intuition, calmness, self-control, and concentration melt into the ever-joyous Sea of Bliss. No longer does the soul have to experience its joy as an individualized wave of consciousness, but is merged into the One Cosmic Ocean, with all its waves - eternal laughter, thrills, throbs. "When a soul is out of the cocoon of the three bodies it escapes forever from the law of relativity and becomes the Ineffable Ever- Existent. Behold the butterfly of Omnipresence, its wings etched with stars and moons and suns! The soul expanded into Spirit remains alone in the region of lightless light, darkless dark, thoughtless thought, intoxicated with the ecstasy of joy in God's dream of cosmic creation. .... Love, Peace, Mazie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2002 Report Share Posted January 22, 2002 , "mazie_l" <sraddha54@h...> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > In "Autobiography of a Yogi" Swami Sri Yukteswarji says: > > "The causal world is indescribably subtle. ... [snip] It's a quaint idea Mazie, and perhaps beautiful to behold, but unfortunately it has little to do with self inquiry. Who we are is quite beyond all that, and we needn't ever reach the casual plane or experience it to come to the understanding of ourselves as the Great Self. We can skip right over these additional layers of Maya, and most of the sages of advaita recommend that we do just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2002 Report Share Posted January 22, 2002 , "jodyrrr" <jodyrrr@h...> wrote: > , "mazie_l" <sraddha54@h...> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > > > In "Autobiography of a Yogi" Swami Sri Yukteswarji says: > > > > "The causal world is indescribably subtle. ... > > [snip] > > It's a quaint idea Mazie, and perhaps beautiful to behold, > but unfortunately it has little to do with self inquiry. > > Who we are is quite beyond all that, and we needn't ever > reach the casual plane or experience it to come to the > understanding of ourselves as the Great Self. We can skip > right over these additional layers of Maya, and most of the > sages of advaita recommend that we do just that. Dearest Jody, Yes, it is quaint and beautiful. I know what you are saying is the truth. I like seeing this marvelous view sometimes as I play in the poet's playground and gather what I find there. I do understand the truth though. All that I have finally come to understand by studying and listening to Advaitists is beyond compare. My Bhakti nature finds the swinging along in joy just right for me right now. The messages that you share have opened my eyes up more than you might imagine dear Jody. I appreciate that quite alot. I can't begin to name all who have helped me here to come to a fuller understanding of Advaita. Love, Mazie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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