The Life Divine Series- Luminous Reconciliations - 3

Case 2

Human aspiration Vs Actual Experience

Case History:

There are people who are aspiring for perfection. In fact aspiration for perfection is time immemorial. The humanity's highest aspiration for perfection - God, Light, Freedom and Immorality is expected to lead them from:

               

                Current human consciousness to Divine Consciousness

                Limited mentality to the light of knowledge

                Suffering and bondage to peace and freedom and

                Death to Immortal life

 

whereas the actual life is full of

                Egoism,

                Limited mentality,

                Pain, suffering and death

Therefore practical person says that one should not try to become perfect because it is always impossible. The perfection is an ideal which is  admirable but not practical in real life..

Evidence:

Body , mind, and intellect are imperfect. With these imperfect instruments at our disposal, we have seen and are experiencing quarrel, misunderstanding, impatience, jealousy and what not. Man cannot become perfect with these imperfect instruments at his disposal.

However, in spite of actual realities, human race is continuing with their ideal. Even though present realities make them feel inadequate or imperfect, they are pursuing their goal.

Concluding arguments:

How can body, mind, sense, emotions, ego, limited intellect - show the way for? - Questions Practical person

Man feels the need for perfection and hence he aspires for perfection. That feeling is continuing from time immemorial and hence it should be explored fully in spite of all contradictions - Says Idealist

Reconciliation:

Sri Aurobindo says that it is the Nature's method to present contradictions and harmony. Man is progressing towards the ideal by trying to create harmony between perfection and the actuality. At one time, it was impossible to fly in the air and man has made it possible. It took long time for the message to travel from one end of the globe to another but now it is instantaneous. At one time, it was impossible to think of space travel, but now man has mastered the space travel.

The contradictions appear as negative. It is the Nature's way of presenting it to us and making us to overcome it. They are actually opportunities in disguise which will help us to discover hidden potential. We should not avoid contradictions rather ask ourselves " What is it I need to overcome the opposition?  That is how progress have been made. It means that man has to evoke faculties, powers, knowledge and capacities in him to attain the perfection that he envisages.

 
He says " Animal is the laboratory in which Nature has worked out man. That man himself can be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation , Nature wills to work out God or to manifest God"

Astrology- KP and KB System of Predictions -2

 

SRI YUKTESWAR Disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya

We will continue our discussion on astrology but before that let us recapitulate the essence of importance of astrology and its place in spirituality by going through the explanations given by Sri Yukteswar to Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.    

" Astrology is never a question of belief ; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true . The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.

Charlatans have brought the stellar science to its present state of disrepute. Astrology is too vast, both mathematically and philosophically, to be rightly grasped except by men of profound understanding. If ignoramuses misread the heavens, and see there a scrawl instead of a script, that is to be expected in this imperfect world. One should not dismiss the wisdom with the wise.

All parts of creation are linked together and interchange their influences. The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity. Man, in his human aspect, has to combat two sets of forces-      

        First, the tumults within his being, caused by the admixture of earth, water, fire, air, and ethereal elements;

        second, the outer disintegrating powers of nature.

So long as man struggles with his mortality, he is affected by the myriad mutations of heaven and earth.

Astrology is the study of man's response to planetary stimuli. The stars have no conscious benevolence or animosity; they merely send forth positive and negative radiations. Of themselves, these do not help or harm humanity, but offer a lawful channel for the outward operation of cause-effect equilibriums which each man has set into motion in the past.

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future results. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom: these are few.

The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate-the result of past good and evil-but to arouse man's will to escape from his universal thralldom.

What he has done, he can undo. None other than himself was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in his life. He can overcome any limitation, because he created it by his own actions in the first place, and because he has spiritual resources which are not subject to planetary pressure.

Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automaton, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets- which is to say, his past-by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever-free; it is deathless because birthless. It cannot be regimented by stars.

Man is a soul, and has a body. When he properly places his sense of identity, he leaves behind all compulsive patterns. So long as he remains confused in his ordinary state of spiritual amnesia, he will know the subtle fetters of environmental law.

God is harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss. His activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law. After deep prayer and meditation he is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection."