The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali - Illumination

The greater and lesser powers of the soul

are acquired by incarnating into the world of the soul,

mantras, an overwhelming desire or through meditation.

Consciousness is transferred from a lower to a higher form

due to the greater evolutionary urge of the Divine Brahman within the soul.

All that has been taught in terms of methods

to unleash the Inner Light of the Soul

are not the true causal agencies

behind the transference of Consciousness

but are more responsible for purifying the lower bodies that are based in matter.

The Consciousness of I Am is what enables

the individuality of the soul to enjoy.

Though Consciousness is Originally Undivided,

it nonetheless produces the multiplicity of embodied souls.

Throughout the vast kingdom of forms,

the only Conscious form which is free from karma

is the form that is used to meditate on the Divine Brahman.

Dualism in all of its facets is unknown to the soul

that is liberated.

For those who are in bondage, dualistic activities are of three kinds.

From these three kinds of dualistic activities arises

those forms which are made to endure the

cause and effect relationship of karma.

Created by memory alone,

the desire to live as an embodied soul

is without a real beginning.

Desire being the glue which holds together

the propensity to incarnate into a form

and personality being the result of such a desire,

the only way to cut the cord of sentient existence

is by cutting away the attachment to an objectified

and outward going Consciousness.

The past and the present are what is conventionally considered

to be Real. Under the impressions of a timed conception

of the present, the form is but a combination

of past developed characteristics which carry latent seeds for a future personality. 

The characteristics, whether active or passive,

are all reflections of the three gunas of rhythm, activity, and inertia.

Made of the elements and for the elements,

the form is the objectification or projection

of the effective side of Consciousness

instead of the Causal side of Consciousness.

What must be realized is that Consciousness and form

are distinct and separable from each other.

Though many forms are alike,

the Consciousness that is within the form

can function on higher and lower levels of Self Realized Being.

With every impulse of the mind there is a form to suit it.

Mindful of being mentally created,

create no more thoughts which will act as seeds for future rebirths.

The Perceiver is always Conscious

of what is happening in the confines of the active mind.

Due to the mind being something that is easily visible

to the senses, the mind cannot be properly called

the Source of Illumination.

The mind, being limited,

is usually only Conscious of its own activities

and therefore cannot be truly mindful of the Greater Life of the Divine Brahman.

When the level of intelligence

which is independent of the senses

and is free from objects reflects its rays of awareness

into the mind, the Self can become Conscious of Itself.

The mind, now containing the Perceiver and the Perceived,

becomes as omniscient as the Divine Brahman.

Containing an infinity of mental impressions,

the mind transformed is an instrument for the Self

and works under the Banner of Unity.

The state of Unity beyond Unity

is the reward of the soul who can

tell the difference between the mental impressions

of the ordinary mind from the mental impressions of the Self.

There is then a building up of finer and finer 

levels of discrimination between the Illumination of the Self

and the Illumination of the Divine Brahman.

By sheer force of habit,

however, the mind will continue to reflect

the mental impressions of the senses and their objects in adoration.

Maintaining a distance from the aspiration

to Illumination and Unity

is healthy for the soul

who is more desirous of the Absolute Plane

of the Divine Brahman's Consciousness and Its Immense Cloud of Spiritual Knowledge.

When the Essence and Totality of Knowledge

is Clearly Known to the Soul,

nothing remains for the Soul to do in terms

of incarnating or not into higher and lower forms of Consciousness.

The Eternal Now being all that exists

for such a Light Infused Vehicle of a Self,

the Pure Spiritual Consciousness

that is the Soul Transformed

Withdraws Forevermore into the Impersonal Oneness of the Divine Brahman.

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