Spiritual Individuality

January 01, 2002

• By this it is meant the evolving spirit should replace the organised mental person in his aspect of individuality.
• Individuality is defined by Him as the activity of the Purusha which by its universal spread contacts the world's experience and works out a vision for the individual to express in his personal life.
• Initially it is enmeshed in the ego.
• What emerges, then, in the place of individuality is an egoistic person in the society.
• From the point of view of creation, it is transcendence expressing the universe in the inner life of a single person.
• From man's point of view, he forms into a physical body, vital being, mental person and a spiritual Purusha by stages.
• This is partial as it is in the ascent.
• In the descent, it starts from the Supermind above and goes down to discover the spiritual being in each successive layer until it reaches the body.
• History and the great souls of various periods can be traced along these lines.
• The progress is not on a vertical line, but rises in a pyramid and the descent too is in another pyramid upside down.
• Trying to place the Indian Rishis, Jesus, Buddha, Socrates, Hamlet, Shankara, Rama, Krishna, and every great man like Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander, etc. in this scale is possible.
• Martin Luther is a landmark.
• He was a pure spirit in the mind.
• Now we need the Individuality of the evolving Spirit in the vital at the first stage and the mental in the second stage.
• The supramental being is the last stage of this movement in the body of which mind is two steps away.