The Yoga of Patanjali

Lesson - 3 61From the behaviour of the eight lower natures you have toswitch yourself on to the ninth.The eight lower natures are the five states of existence,the mind, Buddhi and the ego. The five states of existence areEarth, (Solid), Water (Liquid), Fire, Air and space. They aresupervised by the five consciousnesses that govern them whichare called the five Bhutas. Fire exists in three manifestations,the cosmic fire, the electric fire, and the fire by friction. Thesethree fires are described in English from the scriptures for thefirst time by Blavatsky, in her Secret Doctrine. These areelaborately explained, in the book ‘A treatise on Cosmic Fire’by Alice A. Bailey. All these put together make the eight prakritisor natures that are influenced by the three qualities. Beyondthem there is the ninth, the Divine Nature, which we call soullight.The mind and the five senses are manifestations of theeight lower natures. You are having the solid and the liquid inyour physical body. Fire exists as the heat in you and air existsas the respiration in you. Space exists as the etheric body inyou. And then there is the mind, Buddhi and the lower ego inyou. All these work subservient to the three qualities in you.Of all these your Buddhi is the passage towards the ninth nature,the soul-consciousness. Beyond this soul-consciousness thereis the tenth whom we call the Lord of the World. This Lord isbeyond the creation and within the creation also, just as thesame space exists outside this house and inside this house.A question : “Is the tenth one Sanatkumara?”I answered : “No! The ninth Prakriti or Nature has sevensubdivisions, the seventh of which is Sanatkumara. Now eachof these nine natures has seven subdivisions, but we are onlydealing with the broad groupings, what follows is the groupingmethod of the ancient scriptures. What the Tibetan Master hasgiven out is as much as the modern man can understand in thetwentieth century and not as much as there is in the scripture.