CONSCIOUS ACTIONMeher Baba |
The human soul has three bodies gross, subtle and mental. Though overlapping each other, they would still impel the soul in three psychic dimensions where there no point of interaction or fusion between them. This contact of the intertwining of the bodies invites action and interaction between the three bodies. With most men the life of action means nothing but inner confusion and outer chaos a jumble from which they cannot extricate themselves. To annul this confusion it is necessary to strive for conscious inaction which is the goal; and this striving for conscious inaction requires conscious action. This particular type of conscious action, which leads one on to conscious inaction, operates trans-bodily and requires vehicular purity and concord. In the Beyond-Beyond state of God there is unconscious inaction; at the goal of man there is conscious inaction; and in the intermediate state there is conscious action which is established in illusion.
The fusion point becomes the medium for effecting harmony between
all three bodies. If the Masts (God-intoxicated souls) are to be
brought down from the mental to the subtle or from the subtle to the
gross, this has to be effected through the contact of
intertwinement. This fusion point also brings all three bodies under
the control of what is sometimes called the Universal Body, which is
the seat of the Universal Mind.
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