79. The Two Poles

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

79. THE TWO POLES

            117. The region from which the spiritual force had been withdrawn, to some extent, was, in the technical language of the religion of Saints, the Feet of the Supreme Being and the other portion which was replete with spiritual energy was His Head. In scientific language, the two poles may be spoken of as the positive and negative poles of the spirit-force.

            118. It is desirable to observe here that there was not a complete absence of spirituality from the negative pole. There was considerable residual spiritual energy in that pole, but there was, of course, a diminution in intensity. The impress of this eternal condition is to be found in the fact that the coarsest and densest matter is not completely devoid of energy.

            119. The idea of the existence of eternal polarization of the kind we have been speaking of, may naturally appear to introduce an element of finitude in the infinite, as our ideas of polarization are always associated with finiteness of both poles. In comprehending the condition of the infinite, such associations should not, however, be pressed forward in all their details, and the difference in degree of the intensity of the spiritual force the two poles alone should be kept in view. If we liken the negative and the positive poles respectively to a cloud floating in the sky and the sky itself, this would be the nearest approach, in visual presentation, to the polarization we have been speaking of. It is hardly necessary to say that this illustration at once dispels the idea of finitude which may have arisen in consequence of association of ideas, inasmuch as the cloud does not in any sense impose a limitation on the surrounding sky.