Daily Messages Series 2 Pt. 318, 319, 320, 321, 322
Daily Messages Series 2 Pt. 318, 319, 320, 321, 322 318) In giving up some habits, persons, and values after taking to yoga, we follow certain rules, codes, disciplines. We do not always follow the same practice in taking up some habits, taking to persons, espousing some new values. Nor do we rigorously follow those rules in repeating what we already possess as habits or character. 319) Realising the Absolute in the body means, the body should cease to function through sensation and habit and must have passed through the stages of functioning through emotion, thought, understanding devoid of thought...Knowledge, Ananda, consciousness and penultimately through an Existence that is not conscious. 320) At the final stage, body should have ceased to function even through Existence in manifest substance, i.e., the determinism of the Absolute expresses directly without the need of any of the media created from Existence to sensation. 321) In that case a clear understanding of each stage of creation realising every higher stage will be of great help. 322) Also, it helps knowing how each level of creation realises the 12 attributes of the spirit, viz. Silence, Peace, Immortality, Infinity, Goodness, Truth, Beauty, Bliss, Light, Love, Power, Eternity.