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(Shukla Yajurveda, 17.67)
pŗthivyā aham udantariksham āruham antarikshāt divam āruham,
divo
nākasya pŗşhţāt svar-jyotir-agām-aham.
I have
arisen from earth to the mid- world,
I
have arisen from the mid-world to heaven,
From the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the
Sun-world of Light.
This physical earth is not the first and the last, the alpha and
omega, of human existence. The earth is only one of the stations
of the evolving consciousness that is embodied in man. Our
creation is a graded scheme with rising tiers of existence with
corresponding planes of consciousness, e.g. the physical, the
vital or the life- constituted, the mental, the higher mental and
still further, the luminous planes of the Spirit. To develop and
organize in himself these various powers of consciousness as he
rises higher and higher in the ladder of progress is the meaning
of man’s evolution. And this is precisely what the seer of this
verse has done. He has developed his consciousness beyond the
limits of its earthly encasement; he has ascended to the mid-world
of Life, the field proper of life-energy; from there he has
climbed to the heavens of the pure Mind; and from these summits
again he has crossed into the luminous world of the Truth-Sun. He
has registered an ordered ascent on the stair of cosmic
Existence—from the material base below to the superconscient world
of Light above. He has not decried any of the intermediate Powers
of the creative spirit, but accepted and embodied all of them in
their natural sequence. The Son of God has embraced the manifest
Being of God in its full totality.
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