Unfoldment of the Supreme Being
Divine Life
Society Publication: The Ultimate Success - An
Instrument of Thy Peace by Swami Chidananda
The entire approach of the great masters of the
East towards the science of inner attainment was always based upon the
fundamental vision for the individual on this earth plane. What have you come
to this earth for? Inner attainment is always oriented to the supreme
fulfilment of man’s life in terms of this crucial question. The masters
evaluate the unfoldment of the individual in terms of the unfoldment of the
superior being.
The interplay of the three gunas in
human nature was also something always in their awareness. True unfoldment in
their concept meant transformation of the being from a state of predominance of
tamas and rajas into a state of sattva. The individual
would gradually succeed in the control of rajas and tamas--liberating himself
from tamas in its various aspects and gradually mastering the activities
of rajas, so that it could be directed to the desired channel.
This transmutation of the gunas becomes
a valuable aid in that awakening to the innermost depths of being where the God
within lies slumbering. Therefore, the masters would want the unfoldment to
bring about the conquest of tamas and the mastery of rajas. The
valuable dynamism of rajas could be utilised by giving it a higher
direction, and it would become a valuable factor in bringing about the
awakening of the divine. For it is through the awakening into the divine
element of himself that the individual would ultimately fulfil his mission on
earth and attain to God-consciousness.
As the unfoldment takes place, man’s emotions
and senses will move from being base and gross to gradually becoming more
subtle and refined. The emotions become associated more and more with idealism
and noble sentiments--the desire to love, to be an inspiration, to bring
happiness to others, to share, to relieve suffering, and to lighten the burden
of others. The cleansing of the emotions and sentiments brings a quality of
refinement and subtlety that was not in them before, when they were only
involved in the senses and their grosser habits. This is inner unfoldment.
Conversely, the thinking of an unrefined man in
whom there is no unfoldment remains at a rather prosaic level. His thinking
revolves around the three lowest chakras that represent the animal in
man. The thoughts of the individual have to be raised from this lower level to
more sublime goals. In the concept of the great masters of the East, the higher
unfoldment of an individual was to raise the level of consciousness beyond
these three lower centres and bring it into gradually ascending higher levels
of thinking and aspiration.
Excerpts from:
Unfoldment of the Supreme
Being - The Ultimate Success
- An Instrument of Thy Peace by Swami Chidananda
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