21. The Region of Pure Spirit

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

21. THE REGION OF PURE SPIRIT

            39. We have seen that the individual mind is subordinate to the spirit-entity, and that it receives the necessary energy and intelligence from the spirit for its action, and that it is also associated with the individual spirit. The same remarks apply to the region of the Universal Mind. The observations made above, although they throw considerable light on the internal relation between spirit and mind, are not alone sufficient to determine the position occupied by the regions of pure spirit in creation. We accordingly proceed to investigate the subject from other points of view.

            40. We have shown in Article 13 that the elimination of the physical frame (inclusive of its various subtle forms) of an individual spirit-entity results in the enhancement of its various functions and also in the acquisition of new powers. We have further shown in Article 9 that the mind is an instrument through which the spirit performs its various subjective functions, and that the former becomes inoperative on the withdrawal of the spirit-current from it. The inference from this proposition is that the individual mind is a medium of the spirit, entirely similar to the corporeal medium. The elimination of the mental medium from the spirit-entity would accordingly lead to the same results as take place in the case of elimination of the physical frame. Functions of a purely spiritual order, of which the mental functions are the reflex images, would then manifest themselves, and the scope of these functions would be immensely greater than that of the mind. The three main inherent attributes of the spirit-force, which are prime energy, intelligence and bliss, would be the predominant characteristics of all spirit-functions, and pain would be unknown. If we apply the conclusion arrived at to Brahmanda, the a posteriori inference would be that the elimination of the medium of the Universal Mind from the Universal Spirit-Centre would bring out the region of pure spirit, and thus enable us to locate in creation the goal of our research. The case is, however, to some extent, otherwise, as the inference referred to does not indicate why Brahma was created and associated with the Universal Spirit-Centre and why Brahma should at all be dissociated from that Centre. This subject is explained at great length in the Part devoted to creation. For the present, it will serve our purpose to state briefly that the pure spiritual region, which is beyond Brahmanda, also contains six sub-divisions. It was in consequence of the existence of these divisions that the impact of the pure spirit-force upon the region of Brahmanda produced six similar sub-divisions in it.