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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 Stainless Cause of the Universe #74
India’s cosmology is ancient and thorough in its depth and its scope. It is also eternal, since it sites principles that the Divine Being, in all its many aspects, utilizes to project, sustain, and dissolve the many realms of name and form that exist in time and space. Though the Divine Being is beyond causality, is the Causeless Cause, Its amazing Mind, the Mahat, or Hiranyagarbha, facilitates the appearance of countless worlds peopled by an infinite amount of living beings, all under the auspice of the Mahashakti, the Divine Feminine Power. Coming to know of this trickle-down process, from the highest and deepest Escalon on out to the gross, physical plane of existence, the soul very soon reaches for and attains the highest Wisdom that solves all problems, settles all issues, and even puts death to death.
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.
The Mighty River of Brahman #185
In the view of the ancient Indian rishis, the look at, or perspective on, the Absolute Reality, called Brahman, was all-inclusive. Beyond form, transcending time and space, indivisible and all-pervasive, free of all attributes — this was Divine Reality. But they also left room for Brahman inside of the worlds of name and form, or Brahman with attributes. In this wisdom chart, Brahman is compared to a mighty river with all its features, characteristics, and movements— many of them containing all the risks and dangers that relativity and life here on earth is known for. In the words of Sri Ramakrishna, God must contain the full weight of the fruit, i.e., not just the flesh which undoubtedly is the Essence, but also the skin, seeds, pit, and core of the fruit as well.
Kalpa — The Concept of Time in Vedic Cosmology #78
For the higher elucidation of the Western cultures in modern times, the dharmic teaching of kalpas is offered forth so as to inform the people of the ancient rishi’s way of looking at time — predominantly that it is a concept in the mind, and ultimately illusory. Also, its appearance, real or not, rolls on far longer than even the western evolutionary theory assigns to the age of the physical universe. The kalpa reckoning takes into account how time expands inside of worlds that are contained within the mind, and in God’s Mind (Mahat). Thus, it broadens the human thinking process far beyond the short-sighted conventional ideas of a very young Western scientific view.