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FIG-FRUIT
A symbol of the sweet fruit of the Tree of Life,
i.e. the blissful results of the experience of the Self in its
course through the lower nature. The "fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, etc." (GALATIANS v. 22), which are emotions transmuted
through the Holy Spirit (Buddhi). This "sweet fruit" is garnered and
enjoyed on the buddhic plane to which the consciousness rises after
the lower nature is transcended.
"Two birds (the Paramātman and the Jivatman, or Supreme and
individual souls) always united, of the same name, Occupy the same
tree. One of them (the Jivātman) enjoys the sweet fruit of the fig
(or fruit of acts), the other looks on as a witness." - Mundaka
Upanishad, III. 1, 1-3; MON. WILLIAMS, Indian Wisdom, p. 42.
The "two birds" are the Higher and the Lower Selves which are
essentially one, but dual in aspect respecting manifestation, only
the lower aspect being in active relation with the soul as the
Divine Indweller. It is the Divine life (jiva), the Christ within,
who strives and eventually conquers the lower nature of the soul,
and afterwards rises in his saints to partake of the fruit of the
life process.
"There are hints which lead to the truth that it is only the lower
self which suffers; the higher ego in us, 'the angel' which always
beholds the face of the Father,' goes scathless, awaiting the
uniting of the lower self with it." - K. C. ANDERSON, Serm., The
Buried Life.
There sits a silent watcher within each of us, an entity unaffected
by the swift, tumultuous passing of the years, yet carefully
gathering up and storing within itself the tribute that they bring.
It forgets nothing, loses nothing, allows nothing to escape that has
ever come within its ken. And all this treasure is being accumulated
for eternity; inner self of every soul cares only for the things of
time as they bear upon its return to that state in which time is
not. Language is of necessity inadequate here to express a fact
which transcends our powers of thought. But I repeat that that
timeless, ageless principle, that point and centre of being, which
alone deserves to be called you, deeper far than your present
consciousness of yourself, and greater than you have or could have
any conception of while you are enclosed and battened down in your
physical body, derives immediately from the eternal Son of God." -
R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., In Change Unchanged.
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