To dwell into dimensions which are beyond the scope of the five senses, it is imperative that we develop our higher senses, writes Yogi Ashwini
Have you wondered why there are so many different types of creatures on this planet, be it insects, reptiles, animals, birds, humans or even divine beingsIJ Even in humans, we have so many categories on the basis of religion, financial status, etc. Does it not become apparent that everything is in layers and layers, some known and some unknownIJ Is it not so strange that in spite of having travelled to different planets and far-off galaxies, not a trace of life has been found yet, and neither would be. Ever wondered whyIJ
Ever wondered why in a room where we are alone, at times there is a definite feel of a presence, though the five senses perceive nothingIJ The entire creation is made up of different levels of existence of energy. Each level, depending on the state of evolution, is complete in itself and compliments the other levels, thereby maintaining a balance in creation. Energy travels from one layer to a marginally different layer. There would be chaos if energy travelled between two vastly different mediums; it may cause destruction.
A dimension is a level of existence at any given point of time. The state that we humans exist in is called the Bhulok. Dimensions below the Bhulok are called Tats, Sutal, Rasatal, Patal, while above the Bhulok exist the Bhuvah, Svah, Maha, Janah, Tapah and Satyalok, each lok having layers of existence to it.
Each lok has attributes to it that create sub-dimensions within that. At our level too, ie at the level of the humans, in the Bhulok, we have so many different types of people — workers, professionals, businessmen, CEOs. Each is different from the other in characteristics and experiences that they live through.
While the evolution through the layers below the Bhulok is a natural process, it is a matter of your own actions and deeds that determine your vertical growth beyond the Bhulok. The key to this is to adopt more and more responsibilities. For example, in a factory, a worker can grow up the hierarchy only when he is ready to or takes on voluntarily additional responsibilities. When that happens, he is immediately identified by the senior management and given a higher position. The management is always on the lookout for responsible people and such voluntary acts never go unnoticed. With the higher position, the worker is also given higher powers, not to prove his supremacy, but to help him execute his job effectively. The worker, thus, has evolved in the factory.
Similarly, in the world of spirituality, this evolution happens when the practitioner becomes more responsible for the larger part of the creation beyond him. If we look around us, we will find everyone asking the divine all the time for something. Why should the divine choose someone for a preferential treatment in this vast ocean of beggarsIJ Only those beings who are selflessly working, helping others around them are the ones that the divine notices, and like the factory’s management, elevates them, giving them powers to help them in their crusade to help others. Thus this individual, by the grace of the divine and his guru, evolves from the level that he was at. But the process does not stop here.
As one grows in hierarchy and becomes responsible for a much larger number of people, the punishments associated with lack of responsibility or negligence also become more severe. For example, if in a shirt manufacturing factory, the shop floor worker commits a mistake, he will at best spoil one shirt; the shop floor manager’s mistake can spoil one batch, a general manager’s mistake will spoil the day’s production while the managing director’s mistake may lead to the factory being shut down, rendering hundreds of workers jobless. Thus, the severity of the punishment, too, would increase from the shop floor worker right up to the MD.
Similarly, in the world of spirituality, with the powers that are given to the evolved being, the responsibilities become equally great and mistakes are equally strongly punished. One step of misuse of power will affect so many people around, thereby upsetting the balance of the creation, something which the divine will never allow. Evolution has to be a constant process and it is after so many lives that one is given the opportunity to evolve that one cannot afford to make mistakes.
When we sit for dhyan, we have various experiences and visions. There are pleasant visions of godly beings and there are unpleasant visions of animals or creatures. These are nothing but our interactions with the beings of the dimensions that we would have travelled to during dhyan, or in other words, a state of heightened consciousness where our higher senses have become temporarily active.
Everything in creation is made up of layers, be it the earth and its layers of crust, mantle, bedrock and core, or the atmosphere with its layers of atmosphere, troposphere, stratosphere, ionosphere, etc, be it a fruit, or be it a tree, or a living being. These layers are subtler at the outer peripheries and grosser at the core. This phenomenon is common to everything in creation. What is after the subtlest perceivable layer or inside the grossest perceivable layer is the subject of people with a developed sixth or seventh sense. Maybe a few decades ago, the atmosphere was considered one layer, the earth was considered flat, no one knew about gravity, etc. Has the scientific advancement changed that fact of historyIJ
The answer is a big ‘no’. Earth has always been in layers so has the atmosphere. The same applies to gravity; nothing has changed, it’s only that now we have the instruments which tell us so. The instruments which measure the physical can only measure the physical. The layers, which do not conform to the physical dimensions, are a subject matter of the higher senses, not of instruments which are limited to the five basic senses. So to dwell into the dimensions which are beyond the scope of the five senses, it is imperative to develop higher senses.
The writer is the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation
