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DEVAYANA-THE PATH OF THE GODSA symbol of the course of the soul's evolution after the mind has begun to function, and the monad of Life, or Divine spark, has been added to the monad of form. "Having reached the Path of the Gods, the man comes to the world of Agni (fire), to the world of Vayu (air), to the world of Varuna, to the world of Indra, to the world of Pragâpati, to the world of Brahman." - Kaush. Upanishad, I. 2. Having reached the state when the spiritual egos (Gods) have entered in, implying the knowledge of good and evil, the soul has greatly enlarged possibilities before it, and first comes to the sphere of the force-aspect of development (Agni); to the sphere of intellect (Vayu); to the sphere of Truth (Varuna); to the sphere of steadfast devotion to the Highest (Indra); to the sphere of direct spiritual Vision (Pragâpati); to the sphere of Pure Spirit (Brahman). "As early as the Rigveda and the Brahmanas mention is frequently made of the Devayâna, which was originally in all probability the way by which Agni bore the sacrificial gifts to the gods, or the latter descended to them. The meaning of the whole is that the soul on the way of the gods reaches regions of ever-increasing light, in which is concentrated all that is bright and radiant, as stations of the way to Brahman." - DEUSSEN, Phil. of Upanishads, p. 335. When at the "fall of man," the Divine sparks descended into the human astro-mental forms prepared for them, the personalities (pitris) became moral beings and entered upon the path of the higher qualities or ideals (gods). Then the forceful Divine life (Agni) working below, bears the offerings of the lower to the higher, which latter thereupon descend to actuality in the aspiring souls. By the gradual unfolding of the Divine life, stage by stage, in human nature, the souls become more and more radiant with the higher qualities of truth, wisdom, and love, until at last the darkness of ignorance and selfishness is entirely overcome and the glorified spirits enter into union with God. "It is true that Nature is largely governed by mechanism, but in the world we find stages of development, and each stage is further removed from the coercion of mechanical laws. At every higher stage something essentially new comes into existence; this new, as it unfolds, becomes more and more independent of the mechanical laws found below it. This new has the essence of its being not in the elements which it has left behind, but in the ideals which are in front of itself. The full truth of all this comes out in man alone. There is much in him which belongs to the world below him, but this is not the real nucleus of his being-all that is found in a Beyond; and this is a Beyond not in space but within the soul." - E. BOUTROUX, Education and Ethics. |
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