Beginnings
The seat of consciousness
There are seven chakras identified by Tantric Yogis and the king of chakras reside at the top of the head. i is sometimes called the Pineal Gland and in sanskrit its name is Sahasrara Chakra. The lowest Chakra is called the Muladhara Chakra which is the residence of the four fundamental instincts or base instincts. The Muladhara Chakra is also the seat of the Kula Kundalini or the Coiled Serpentine. Tantra
tan=darkness; tra=liberation. Tantra therefore means "that which liberates from darkness". Darkeness refers to Ignorance, the absence of the illuminating light of knowledge. Knowledge refers to the knowledge of one' s self, ones origin and true nature. It is said that man is made by some supernatural being for whatever reason. The scriptures talk about God and His plan. God is said to encompass everything which is to say that we are inside God and that He is everywhere around us and also within us. This idea is however not so obvious to us human beings much less to lesser-evolved creatures like dogs and goats and elephants. The reason why this is not easy to grasp is because we seem to be apart from the rest. Our natural boundary is our skin and everything outside of us can be dangerous or lethal. We therefore tend to get close to those of our species and to those of our color and language and creed. This sense of belonging gives us some measure of comfort and safety.One rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy
The galaxy that shelters our planet takes 20 million years to make one rotation. Thinking about an average person's lifetime and comparing that to the time the galaxy takes to make one turn would seem to make the self -importance that man feels for himself a little out of shape in relation to the natural order of things. What is achieved in one lifetime of at most 100 years? What learning can be had in that span of time? After 80 or even 100 years can a man say: " I am ready to die. I have seen the depths and the heights. There is nothing more for me.to know." Very few if ever have had that feeling of completeness after one lifetime. Which brings us to the idea of birth and death and being born once more. Some call it Reincarnation but more correctly it is called Rebirth. If we are to accept evolution then the natural corollary would be birth and rebirth. Nature is very efficient. It wastes nothing. It recycles.
Nature wastes nothing
It would be wasteful for Nature to just destroy a mind or a soul. To place a mind or a soul in one place for eternity after a mere lifetime makes no logical sense. What would be more reasonable is for a mind or a soul to keep on coming back and learning time after time. The yogis say that the body is merely a vessel for the soul, a covering much like a shirt or a dress. When a shirt is frayed and torn it is not preserved but replaced with another. So is the human body a mere shell for the soul. When the shell loses its power and efficiency then it is replaced with another.Time after time
It sits easily in my mind to think of having a soul suffiiciently-evolved to warrant a unique identity or being which allows it to accumulate experiences and knowledge in many visits to that state called "life" although I would surmise that there is also a kind of life after life one which has different rules and forms if it should have those. It would be logical to think of both planes to be transitory states. One shape comes to mind: tai chi, the grand ultimate. Tai chi forms a circule with two colors, white and black with a small circle of black in the white portion and a circle of white in the black portion. Both colors share an equal space in the circle and seems to pulse and undulate as if to describe the pulsating nature of the universe. Deep in each portion lies a solitary circle of the opposite color signifying the quiescence or latency of the other color or state. Which is like saying that midnight holds the seed of the day and conversely that noon holds the sleeping seed of the night that fully awakes at the end of the day. If tai chi describes the universe in its dualistic nature like, day and night, hot and cold, high and low, empty and full which sounds suspiciously like Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in simple terms, might it not also describe the universe in its non-obvious manifestation of consciousness and unconsciousness (as in waking and sleeping), or life and death?Visit these pages:
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