117. Conflict between spirit-force and the forces of Nature

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

117. CONFLICT BETWEEN SPIRIT-FORCE AND THE FORCES OF NATURE

            181. The spirit-force has to contend against great opposition during its life in the third grand division of creation, as the tendency of all the forces of nature is contrary in its character to that of the spirit-force. All the natural forces, referred to, tend towards the nether pole, while the inherent characteristics of the spirit-force, which is found in the innermost quarter of the spirit, is to move in the direction of the purely spiritual regions. For a time, the spirit-force is able to overcome, so to say, the action of the natural forces, but eventually they prevail; and the physical body, which the spirit-energy has created, becomes damaged to such an extent that a further continuance in it is not possible. The work of dissolution is them completed by the death-current mentioned in Article 114.