We are one. This one has two sides, Like in the computer language
plus and minus. There is light and absence of light is darkness. We are the
combination of good and bad. Good is Atmic reflection. Absence of Atmic
reflection is bad. These two forces,
asuric and daivic tendencies and their proportions determine who we are and our
character. We can be either Devatas, Humans or Danavas depending on our
reflection. We have body, senses, mind, intellect, Atman in us. When we reflect
only Body and senses we are Danavas. When our body and senses and intellect and
Atman balance each other we are Manavas and when we reflect Atman through our
intellect and all our actions are done through this reflection, we are Devatas.
As Danvas we only see our goodness and only see faults in
others. Remember that world is a mirror in front of us. We see ourselves in the
world. In this state the senses rule the mind and body. As humans we see a
balanced world with each person a combination of good and bad, strengths and
weaknesses. Our mind and intellect rules the body and senses in this state. As
Devatas we see only good in others and see our own weaknesses. We function in
the world as humans but our minds are attached to atmic consciousness, oneness
and unity. This is a state where our mind is on Himalayas and hands in the
world. Here the heart (Atman) rules the mind (thoughts) and hands (action).
While the type nature is partly acquired as samskaras from
past lives, it is also partly acquired from spiritual effort in this life. Each
one of us has an opportunity to advance through human effort. The task is to
sublimate our animal tendencies (survival reactive tendencies) to become humans
then by surrendering the ego (body – mind complex) to advance to be Devatas (Daivic
sumpathi) and to final merger into Divinity. In this path we can measure and gauze where we are in this
process through some mile stones. Those mile stones are:
1. Aggression, anger, cruelty and
finding faults of others, reactiveness, unhappiness, Tamas - Stage of Danava.
2. Duality, happiness and unhappiness, restlessness
, rajas – Stage of Manava.
3. Peace, joy, equanimity,
stitaprajnatva, tranquility, balance, seeing only good in others, Satwa – Stage
of Devata.
By spiritual sadhana one can advance
from Danava to manava to Devata and ultimately to Divinity. This moving from sensual life filled
with kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya of Danava to life with predominance
of mind and intellect in varying
proportions, slowly annihilating the arishadvargas and promoting satya, dharma,
shanthi, prema, ahimsa as manavas and to a life of Atmic reflection and ego sublimation
(Thyaga of ego) of Devatas and finally merger into oneness, unity and divinity.
Each one of us should find out where we are in this transition and advance
further to our full potential of Divinity.
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