LIGHT ON THE PATH - 60 : Kill out all sense of separateness - 5

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 60 🌹

🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 5 - THE 5th RULE

🌻 5. Kill out all sense of separateness - 5 🌻

253. One whose consciousness works on the buddhic plane during meditation finds that although he is one with all the wonderful consciousness of the plane, yet there is a little circle of emptiness shutting him out from the rest. This little barrier is, of course, the causal body. In order that the buddhic vehicle shall be developed, even that must disappear. Then the man feels the reality of unobstructed Life in a way impossible to describe down here.

Madame Blavatsky expressed the idea as a circle with its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere – a very beautiful and expressive description.1 (1 Ante., Vol. II, p. 67.) Of course it is a paradox, but all things that can be said about these higher conditions must necessarily be paradoxical.

254. When the unity is fully realized the man feels, however paradoxical it may sound, as though his vehicle at that level filled the whole of the plane, as though he could transfer his point of consciousness to any place within that plane and still be the centre of the circle. It is an experience which is quite indescribable.

Along with that feeling, permeating and accompanying it always, is a sense of the most intense bliss – bliss of which we can have no conception at all on these lower planes – something vivid, active, fiery beyond all imagination. Most bliss down here, at the rare moments when we feel anything deserving of the name, consists chiefly in the absence of pain. We are happy and blissful down here when, for a moment, we are free from fatigue and pain, when we can relax and feel that we are taking in pleasant influences. That is rather a negative feeling.

The bliss of the buddhic plane is the most intensely active, vivid feeling. I do not know in the least how to express it. If you could imagine the most intense activity that you have ever felt and then replace that vivid and strenuous activity by a feeling of bliss, then somehow raise it – spiritualize it – to an altogether higher plane, to the nth power, it would convey some idea of what that feeling is.

255. It is an active reality which is quite overpowering in its strength. There is nothing at all passive about it; one is not resting. Down here we live lives of so much strain and strenuousness that rest is always a very prominent part of any ideal we may have; but there it is not in the least a feeling that one is resting or wanting to rest.

One is a tremendous incarnate energy whose expression is to pour itself forth, and the idea of rest or the need of rest is entirely outside one’s consciousness. What to us here seems rest would seem a kind of negation up there. We have become one with the expression of the divine power, and that divine power is active life.

People talk of the rest of nirvana – but that is from the lower point of view. It is the intensity of power that is the real characteristic of this higher life – a power so intense that it does not show itself in any sort of ordinary movement at all, but rather in one vast resistless sweep which might look like rest when viewed from below, but which means the consciousness of absolute power.

It is impossible to express all this in words. When we have achieved this we have finally conquered the giant weed – the great enemy, the sense of separateness. It is the hardest task, on the whole, that is before us, because it involves everything else.

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24 Dec 2020