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7 Stages of Spiritual Progress in 7 Systems #151
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The recurring philosophical phenomena of 7-fold systems of knowledge in India makes for an interesting study for the avid spiritual aspirant. In this dharma art wisdom chart these helpful looks at gradated wisdom are placed side by side for easy study and comparison, offering up clues for the deeper understanding of stages of progress along the spiritual path.
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The Twelve Higher Spandas of Shaivism #143
In early times in India, when it as called Bharat — the Eternal Land — Lord Kapila did his inner homework through intense scrutiny of all that lies both inside and outside the individual’s marvelous province. He came up with the Twenty-Four Cosmic Principles that not only effectively distilled and mapped out these two terrains of a human being’s relative consciousness, but were also borrowed by so many other systems of Cosmology and Philosophy — both inside and outside of Mother India. Shaivism was one of these, with its keen and authentic worship of Lord Siva. To the Cosmic Principles of the Sankhya system of Lord Kapila, the Shaivites added twelve deeper or higher levels of vibration, completing a grand 36 Cosmic Principle tier that opened the aspiring sadhika’s exploration of the “kingdoms of heaven within” to subtleties unknown to most seekers of Enlightenment
The Thirty-Six Cosmic Principles of Shaivism #148
Utilizing Lord Kapila’s original twenty-four tattvas as its basis, the various philosophy schools inside of the darshana of Shaivism have fashioned an umbrella of subtle principles over the top, a sort of frosting on the cake of Indian philosophy in general. But much more than a sweetening, the upper twelve tattvas cover a range that had remained hitherto unexplored by most inner travelers of the terrain of consciousness. What was revealed as a result came in the form of vibrational fields too subtle for the mind to fathom through rationale and speculation. Contact with such ultimately living principles as Ishvara and Sadasiva brought to the fore the very meaning of direct darshan with higher deities that stretched far beyond mere visualization. Even a basic study of these spandas alerts the mind to their existence, opening up close relations in the near future.
Akasha — The Five Atmospheres #79
Similar in content and consideration to the principle of time, the principle of space gets treated in a unique way in Indian Cosmology as well. To say the word “akasha” within hearing of India and its religious and philosophical circles is to become swiftly informed as to the various levels of ether that exist within the human mind and soul. Knowing about an ether for every cross-section of living beings, in addition to their
corresponding realms or worlds, i.e., akashas, releases the embodied soul from the limited thinking that the physical universe alone exists, thereby directing it to the “Kingdoms of Heaven within.” In India, to study the subject of space is to find all the hiding places where the transmigrating soul sports, or hides, allowing for the revelation of the timeless, deathless Soul that underlies all such activity.
Lord Brahma’s Universal Projection #83
The dharmic teachings coming from ancient Vedic times are replete with wisdom concerning both God with Form, and God beyond form — what was termed Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman in those times. Importantly, the connections between the two, i.e., God with attributes and God beyond attributes, proved the whole point of Absolute Existence to the ancients, described then as a single state of Consciousness that possessed the ability to bifurcate into two, then express Itself through the many — all without ever separating Its Essence in any way. Thus, when even gods and illumined souls take births in the outer realm with humankind, the intrinsic oneness of all paths and peoples gets well acknowledged under the auspice of Lord Brahma.