88. Denizens of the Purely Spiritual Regions

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

88. DENIZENS OF THE PURELY SPIRITUAL REGIONS

            130. When the subtle attraction towards the positive pole began to assert itself in an appreciable form, the covers or coatings produced by individual spirit-action receded further and took their location at the strata suitable for them. The spirits so short of their original comatose covers woke up, as it were, from their eternal sleep, inasmuch as the individual currents were largely relieved of the strain involved in maintaining the individual covers, and inasmuch they received additional spirituality by being drawn to higher spiritual planes. This awakening is entirely similar to that which takes place when the ego passes from the plane of deep slumber to that of trance which appertains to the astral creation. In this condition of trance, respiration and circulation in the entire physical frame are at a standstill, inasmuch as the main spirit-currents, which sustain the conditions of wakefulness, dream, and deep slumber, have been attracted to the astral plane. The same remarks apply to the condition of spirit at the time of death. It is, however, drawn up at that time to a still higher plane. On the arrival of the spirit at the astral plane, it assumes a subtle body, somewhat similar to its physical body, the materials of the subtle body being supplied out of subtle surroundings of the astral plane. Similarly, on being liberated from their original comatose covers, the spirits assumed spiritual bodies of the higher spiritual planes to which they had been attracted. These higher spiritual planes, however, represented the comatose strata which had fallen down from their original planes of location by the attractive action mentioned above. This shifting of strata imparted, even to those strata which had fallen below, kinetic energy of the intelligent united spirit-current, and they were thus endowed with intelligence as a whole. The bodies constructed out of such covers could not, therefore, obstruct any activity of the kinetic spiritual energy developed in individual spirits. These spirits are known as hamsas and parama hamsas, with reference to the lower or higher spiritual spheres they belong to. The spirits of the three higher sub-divisions would be parama hamsas, while those of the three lower spheres would be hamsas only. Although sex-distinction is not marked in the purely spiritual regions, yet those in whom the sound-action predominates to some extent may be grouped in a male class; the remaining spirits in whom the spirit-action is prominent might come under the category of a feminine group. It is, however, necessary to observe that the two classes should in no circumstances be held to be associated with any sex-functions of the kind met with in this world.