There are many ways to define and understand the
soul. To begin with, one could say that the soul is the intermediary between
the human being on earth and the spirit in heaven.
For all in one’s birth upto the fourth initiation (here
the person has laid all, meaning to say the person has to eventually renounced
all including his family, friends, money, reputation, character and even life
itself), the soul is the guide and teacher for the human being. It is at the
fourth initiation, that the soul body or causal body is burned (Moksha attained)
up in some mystical fashion and the soul returns up into the spirit, its
purpose and function for all the many births is over. Therefore, no more
reincarnations on earth plane but can come back by choice to guide humanity to
rise up. Now the spirit becomes the guide and teacher for the soul.
We all know that the five elements (Fire, Air,
Space, Earth and Water) i.e. Matter is the vehicle of expression for the soul
on this Earth plane meaning to say that it is through the physical body, they
communicate. On the higher planes, soul serves as an expression vehicle for
spirit. Therefore, the soul is neither spirit nor matter but is the relation
between the two. It is the intermediary between God and form.
Most of the human beings operate from their mind.
They have no idea how to connect with their soul but many human beings know
what is soul. We are conditioned from our childhood to use our mind to operate
in this physical world. Therefore, we ignore the much more powerful tool given
to us by God which can understand things better than the mind. The soul despite
being connected with the physical body does not really pay much attention to
the human being until the human being begins to pay attention to spiritual
matters. The soul is busy with meditation and other matters of service. Once
the human being starts to show interests, the soul begins to take a very active
role.
The soul can also be defined as the attractive
force of the universe that holds all forms together so that God can manifests
and express himself through them. The physical, emotional and mental bodies are
the garments of the soul. It is the soul that feels, registers awareness,
attracts and repels and keeps all forms in action.
The soul can be also be described as the child of
the Father God and Mother Earth who has come onto the Earth in order to reveal
the nature of God which is love.
There is a misconception that the soul is all
knowing. Please note that each soul is in the process of learning and growing.
The human being or personality on earth is also evolving. So also the Monad or
spirit. Now to understand what is Monad, Soul and Personality, I give below the
chart for your perusal.
Monad Soul
Personality
Spirit Consciousness Physical
Body
A Monad has 12 souls under
it and each soul has 12 extentions under it i.e. a total of 144 extensions.
These extensions are the human beings on earth.
One Monad, 12 Souls and 12 Soul extensions under each soul |
The soul comes into the
body just before birth or just after birth. It is generally between the fourth
and seventh year that the soul makes contact with the physical brain of the
child. The soul makes contact with the astral or emotional body between the
ages of seven and fourteen. The soul makes contact with the mental body between
the ages of twenty one and twenty five. Contact with the soul usually occurs
between thirty fifth and forty second years. The potential to contact the monad
begins after the soul has passed the second initiation (Once you have control
over your emotional body).
All Monads or individualized
spiritual sparks were created in the beginning at the same moment. Therefore,
all monads are of the same age. Old soul refers to how many life times a soul
has had in earthly incarnation. An average soul with all its 12 personalities
has around 2,000 life times. Older soul has 2500-3000 lifetimes.
Unconditional love, joy,
happiness, the ability to be alone, divine indifference, detachment, freedom,
inner calm, wisdom and intuition are the characteristics of the soul. There is
a very interesting differentiation among happiness, joy and bliss. Happiness is
a personality reaction, joy is a quality of the soul and bliss is the quality
of atonement with the Monad or Spirit.
The attention of a Master
is attracted to the human being or incarnated personality by the brilliance of
the internal light of that individual. When the light has reached certain
intensity, the aura has reached a certain color and the overall vibration a
specific rate and measure, the Master comes. The choice of the human being or
the incarnated personality by the Master is governed by the past karma, past
associations and the ray on which the incarnated personality is found.
The soul and the hierarchy:
The spiritual hierarchy is
basically the world of souls. In respect to the soul there are three types of
hierarchial workers:
a) Soul: Those who have taken
the fourth initiation and in whom the soul body or causal body has been
destroyed i.e. Moksha attained people. They are the custodians of the plan.
b) Soul infused
personalities: Those disciples and initiates of the first three initiations
through whom the souls work in the carrying out of the plans.
c) Intelligent
aspirants: Those who are not yet soul infused personalities but who recognize
the Divine plan and seek the welfare of their fellow man.
For the
people who are yet to come in the path of spirituality, the purpose of taking
birth would be in vain if they at some or the other period of their life do not
walk the path of spirituality. The basic purpose of birth is to evolve into a
better human being than what you were before birth. That is why there is a plan
of action which is done before taking birth. You choose your parents where your
plan of action could be activated meaning to say that you need the right
surroundings to experience what you want to experience and learn from it and
cross that hurdle. Depending on the evolvement of the soul, the person acts
meaning to say as per his past karmas. All the experiences we have in our lives
are a result of our plans in the soul stage to experience in this life so that
we can move ahead. For example, our relationships with our partners are the
most complicated due to which we decide at the soul level that we would become
partners and correct the anomaly we have in our relations so that we do not need to come back again. Once
the understanding comes in that through love and only love you can cross all
the hurdles, then the intention to work on your love comes in. You need to start
by loving yourself first to love others. Once the love angle opens up, your
connection with your soul starts and the soul starts to guide you, Masters come
in and guide you further to help you to come out from our cycle of Karma
Bandhan. Once this happens, then the Moksha experience is the next step but in
between you have to cross the detachment to your family, friends, money, reputation, character needs
to come in. It does not mean you move away or you do not love them, it’s only
that you do your work without attachment. Relations improve further when you
are not expecting anything from the other person. Expectations are the root
cause of misery in our lives. If we do not learn from our experiences, we have
to again come back and start over again. Therefore, we need to give importance
to understand who we are and for what we have to come to planet earth.