Notion of Growth

SR No.: 006735
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany
Total Pages: 202
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 8 MB

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APPLICATION
THE NOTION OF GROWTH
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equal this to a circular subway-system that gives us the option to get in or out at any particular station.
From the seventh level onwards we are far more in control of our fate than ever before. We may at any time choose to dissolve our final emotional attachments to karmic limitations and to proceed to level 12 and finally to liberation.
But we also have the choice of temporarily going back to level four or five, if we feel that the experience of particular events or emotions in these stages may enrich our scope of life and our further progress. During our return to these (emotionally far denser) levels we may lose much of our previous higher insights until only a vague memory remains. Yet our time on the lower levels is limited. After completing the desired experience, we automatically raise again to the higher level we came from.
We may further choose to accompany souls close to us on these temporary visits. In this case it is at our discretion how much we permit our consciousness to become limited by the restricting density of these levels.
8 - On the eighth level (apurva karana) entirely new and
unknown abilities open up. Our consciousness explores levels of existence never before encountered. Though mild forms of passions still arise, we experience an immense delight in either dissolving them or checking their consequences. From this gunasthana onwards the practice of the highest form of meditation (shukla dhyana) becomes possible. shukla dhyana is the ultimate instrument by which liberation is achieved.
6 though never to stage one, two or three