103. The four classes of existence in mind

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

103. THE FOUR CLASSES OF EXISTENCE IN MIND

            158. We have mentioned in Article 97 that the main function of the Akasa tattva is to serve as vehicle of force action, and that its other functions are hardly appreciable. The other four tattvas furnish constituents for the bodies or frames of spirit, whether the bodies in question be subtle or coarse like ours. Animate and inanimate existence of that part of the creation which is below the five spheres of the tattvas in Brahmanda is divided into four great classes. These classes are known as jeraj, andaj, svedaj, and udbhij. The first three classes are exclusively composed of animate existence. The fourth class, however, also includes minerals and other objects which come out of the earth. Agni tattva is the predominant constituent of the bodies of the members of the first class, while the Vayu, the Jala and the Prithvi are similarly the prevailing constituents in the case of the remaining three classes. The literal meaning of the four technical words quoted above is : jeraj, that which comes out of placenta; andaj, that which comes out of an egg; svedaj, that which comes out of water and perspiration; and udhbij; that which comes out earth. The stellar or the solar creation in the macrocosm of third grand division is specially endowed with that function which is known as the creational function of the body, apart from the subjective functions associated with it in higher animate creation. So far as their material constituents are concerned, they are like the material constituents of nerve-centres. Like the nerves, they supply vitality to the entire system and are the props or supports of those systems. The presiding deities of these orbs are not to be found in the material constituents thereof. They are located in higher subtle planes accompanying the orbs which are suitable for location of the deities referred to. Their control of the orbs subordinate to them is similar to the control exercised upon nerve-centres by the peculiar imperceptible spiritual plane (i.e. Chakra) associated with each. In the lowest part of the third grand division of creation, these orbs become devoid of spirituality to such an extent that their action becomes almost akin to the creational action of the vegetable existence.