Thursday, January 17, 2013

How the principles Live in us ?

I mentioned that there are two planes working in human beings. Spiritual  as well as physical. As we saw, if anything need to exist that should perform some functions obeying some laws or principles. Existence of two planes means principles work at two planes or existence of two set of principles. First one is physical plane or material body that performs all its functions spontaneously obeying some principles as it is the part of the matter or material world, needs scarcely any deliberate obedience. Means we have an attachment to material world. As much we have been attached to this material world so much vigorously all the principles perform their functions at physical plane. Attachment to the world means influence of the material environment upon us as well as our influence upon material environment and thereby the influence of the material environment upon our mind and sense organs. Every change in the environment, natural as well as social, affect us. The situations carve us, so situations become responsible for everything while we are here in the physical plane, a beast like life.(Genesis 3:12-13)

While this plane is vigorously active, the other plane, spiritual world in us, cannot perform very well or it might be away from us(Genesis 3:8-9) because of the dominance of the material plane or nature (Mathew 6:24-27). Nor it performs without any effort, whatever our knowledge about these principles it may be. So first we need a detachment from the world and worldly passions in order to deactivate the physical plane or make it passive and thereby activate the spiritual world in us. I know many of us may misunderstand the statement and control our organs of action. No, if we control our organs of actions, means control activity, and still our mind dwells on the sense-objects, then we will become hypocrites, because  this state is known as hypocrisy (The state in which the organs of action are not inline with the state of mind).  Don't control our organs of action but mind and sense organs. Do everything like a normal man but maintain a different kind of mind, a mind of renunciation. Means do everything as duty or office expecting nothing, selflessly.

At this stage the inducement from the material environment will not affect because of the state of selflessness or the control of mind over sense organs (Mathew 4:8-11). So then what will be the motivating force in our life to perform our activities?  Any way that will not be external material influences, but the internal spiritual influence or the principles that helps to perform the spiritual plane with in us. Now all the principles we know will begin to work spontaneously. The attachment to the material passions prevent us from putting the principles in practice. So how to make the principles  work in us spontaneously? Away from material passions.