Exploring Gradual Unfoldment Of Microcosmic Mind

In the absence of duality, Shakti finds no scope for its application. The existence of energy is dependent on duality. The term shakti has various meanings and, as such, has no proper English equivalent. 'Energy' is the term generally used in English, but it does not convey the full import of shakti. Prakriti 's sentient, mutative, and static principles are called Shakti, the Supreme Operative Principle. The way in which Prakriti functions is called Shakti. The flow of the tanmatras or inferences is called Shakti. The energy that a living body acquires from its surroundings is called Shakti. This is the broad range of meanings that the term 'shakti' encompasses.

Purush is also a kind of shakti - cognitive faculty . Let us see how material energy originates. What is the relationship between energy in the mundane sense and the energy of Prakriti's three principles? The cognitive faculty comes within the scope of bondage, theoretically, due to sentient influence and assumes the shape of certain demarcated forms due to static influence. When form remains in the abstract realm, it is called energy; when it comes into the material realm, it is called matter. Energy is not one of the fundamental factors but a stage prior to the metamorphosis of the cosmic chitt into the five fundamental factors. Expression is the innate characteristic of Shakti. The sentient, mutative and static principles are born at a particular time but lie latent within Shakti. They are creators of the mind. It would be futile for the unit mind to attempt to trace the origin of these three principles because, in the process, it would land itself in the fallacy of infinite regress.

When microcosm s become active, the unborn Prakriti is not manifested in them spontaneously. Microcosms have to draw the impetus to arouse Prakriti's principles from the Macrocosm . Matter receives its impetus from both the microcosm and Macrocosm.

The initial expression of a wave is sentient. When it reaches maturity, it becomes mutative. The period of maturity is followed by a period of contraction. When the most contracted stage is reached, the mutative principle is finally superseded by the static principle. This stage of maximum contraction contains the seed for the subsequent stages of expression. It marks the completion of one phase in the cycle of actional flow. At this point, the microcosm gathers momentum for the next stage: the gradual unfoldment of the microcosmic mind. We acquire the necessary strength and stamina for our personal endeavour from the Macrocosm.

This strength may be preserved in the body, mind or in the nerve cells and nerve fibres, which maintain coordination between body and mind. The more strength one acquires in a particular sphere, the more permanent one's base in that sphere becomes. The unit mind draws inspiration from the Macrocosm when the psychic wave is in a state of maximum pause. The cosmic Mind also acquires impetus to manifest Its dormant samskaras when It's in a state of pause. The seeds of expression that manifest after a state of pause in the psychic wave are called reactive momenta , samskaras. To overcome ego, one must throw oneself in the whirlpool of activity in order to increase one's psychic wavelength.

Authored by: Shri Anandmurti