105. Denizens of Pind

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

105. DENIZENS OF PIND

            160. The corporal frames of the denizens of the third grand division are constituted of material belonging to the sphere in which they reside. For instance, the bodies of the animate creation of our earth are made out of materials supplied by the earth, whether in a coarse or in a subtle form. The orbs of the sun and the moon, which are higher than that of earth, are made up of matter of a very much finer and subtler quality. They are accordingly highly resplendent and charged, in a far greater degree than the earth, with spirituality and energy. The denizens of these orbs are in consequence furnished with bodies which are much more subtle and resplendent than our own, and their existence, too is comparatively much more blissful. The five tattvas and the eighty-four currents, referred to in Article 102, during their descent from Brahmanda into the third grand division of creation, become coarser at each step. They are very subtle in the moon and in the sun, while in the case of the other spheres their coarseness increases in proportion to the distance of the sphere from the top orb. From our experience of the earth, it may not be unnatural to infer that the gaseous, the liquid, and the solid parts of the orbs are alone tenanted. Such is, however, not the case. The subtler strata of each orb are also inhabited, the denizens thereof possessing the requisite subtle bodies. We are endowed with three distinct forms, viz, the sthul, sukshma, and karana sarirs, (the gross, the subtle, and the causal bodies), which are reproductions in miniature, as it were, of the three forms of Brahma. The statement made above that an entity can have an independent subtle body is not, therefore, entirely in the nature of a dictum, as it already possesses such a body in its gross state of life. In our gross form, the subtle conditions are more or less latent, but they do manifest themselves when we go into the state of dream, trance, etc. Similarly, in the converse case of disembodies spirits, whose existence is believed to be beyond question now, the subtle body is the kinetic one and the grosser form is manifested at times. Spirit-entities, in some respects similar to disembodied spirits, inhabit the subtler strata of all the orbs of the third grand division.

            161. It is hardly necessary to remark that the denizens of the spheres lower than the earth are, in every respect, inferior to those that are found here. The apparitions of disembodied spirits on this earth are always due to worldly desires and worldly ties; and in accordance with the nature of these desires and ties, the actions of the apparitions are marked by benevolence or malevolence as the case may be. As the three lower ganglia are mainly engaged in the performance of actions which are common to both men and brutes, their functions are characterised by lower impulses and passions, and higher desires and sentiments are, as a rule, wanting in them. The denizens of the three lower spheres, corresponding to the ganglia referre to, are, therefore, endowed mainly with brutish tendencies. The denizens of subtler strata of those spheres are evil-minded and generally wanton in their actions. Their pleasures and joys are of a very low character and do not approach, to any degree, the joys and pleasures of humanity. These denizens are, more or less, akin in nature to the infernal spirits whom we shall describe presently.