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Yogîs in Svarloka (Page 571) Vitala represents a sublime as well as an infernal state.
That state which for the mortal is a complete separation of the Ego from the
personality is for a Buddha a mere temporary separation. For the Buddha it is a
Kosmic state.
The Brâhmans and Buddhists regard the Talas as hells, but in reality the term is
figurative. We are in hell whenever we are in misery, suffer misfortune and so on.
Forms in the Astral Light
The Elementals in the Astral light are reflections. Everything on earth is reflected
there. It is from these that photographs are sometimes obtained through mediums.
The mediums unconsciously produce them as forms. The Adepts produce them
consciously through Kriyâshakti, bringing them down by a process that may be
compared to the focussing of rays of light by a burning glass.
States of Consciousness
Bhûrloka is the waking state in which we normally live; it is the state in which animals
also are, when they sense food, a danger, etc. To be in Svarloka is to be completely
abstracted on this plane, leaving only instinct to work, so that on the material plane
you would behave as an animal. Yogîs are known who have become crystallized in
this state, and then they must be nourished by others. A Yogî near Allahabad had
been for fifty-three years sitting on a stone; his Chelâs plunge him into the river every
night and then replace him. During the day his consciousness returns to Bhûrloka,
and he talks and teaches. A Yogî was found on an island near Calcutta round whose
limbs the roots of trees had grown. He was cut out, and in the endeavour to awaken
him so many outrages were inflicted on him that he died.
Q. Is it possible to be in more than one state of consciousness at once
A. The consciousness cannot be entirely on two planes at once. The higher and
lower states are not wholly incompatible, but if you are on the higher you will woolgather
on the lower. In order to remember the higher state on returning to the lower,
the memory must be carried upwards to the higher. An Adept may apparently enjoy a
dual consciousness; when he desires not to see he can abstract himself; he may be
in a higher state and yet return answers to questions (Page 572) addressed to him. But
in this case he will momentarily return to the material plane, shooting up again to the
higher plane. This is his only salvation in adverse conditions.
The lower you go in the Talas the more intellectual you become and the less spiritual.
You may be a morally good man but not spiritual. Intellect may remain very closely
related to Kâma. A man may be in a Loka to which he belongs. Thus a man in
Bhûrloka only may pass into the Talas and go to the devil. If he dwells in Bhuvarloka
he cannot become as bad. If he has reached the Satya state he can go into any Tala
without danger; buoyed up by his own purity he can never be engulfed. The Talas
are brain intellect states, while the Lokas—or more accurately the three higher—are
spiritual.
Manas absorbs the light of Buddhi. Buddhi is Arûpa, and can absorb nothing. When
the Ego takes all the light of Buddhi, it takes that of Ãtmâ, Buddhi being the vehicle,
and thus the three become one. This done, the full Adept is one spiritually, but has a
body. The fourfold Path is finished and he is one. The Masters bodies are, as far as
they are concerned, illusionary, and hence do not grow old, become wrinkled, etc.
The student, who is not naturally psychic, should fix the fourfold consciousness in a
higher plane and nail it there. Let him make a bundle of the four lower and pin them
to a higher state. He should centre on this higher, trying not to permit the body and
intellect to draw him down and carry him away. Play ducks and drakes with the body,
eating, drinking and sleeping, but living always on the ideal.
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