Page 166 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

In the chapter entitled "Man and his nature" Master tries to clarify the very person who wants to attain the Ultimate State. A man who wants to attain the Ultimate State is one who is continuously in relation to the Ultimate condition. But he has also developed another end of pole to him. God has only one pole, but man has two poles, one pole is in God and the other pole is at the very end, namely, this world, external world. That is why, he calls him 'bipolar' - having two poles. Now, the one pole, namely God, is, as you may say, beyond even the mind. It is the State of Tam, and this mind is connected with the First thing that comes out of the Tam, namely the First Mind. That continues to be the constant healer and energy and life. From that point, he goes on developing or enwrapping himself with the processes which come in a natural way. There are four processes taking place at this state. Manas, which is purely one with the First Mind or Kshob; then, there is Chit, then there is Buddhi and there is Ahamkar. So long as these four are concerned, you might find, Ego also is well developed. Intellect is there and there is a feeling that there is ego. These would be in their purest or subtlest condition in the earlier stages. They come immediately after the soul is formed. In fact, the soul is eternal element in God. And when it comes out into play, the four come in along with it. They may be said to belong to the state of God. But, afterwards, grossness develops and several deeds or several knots develop. And at every state, there is what we call grossness, greater and greater grossness. At another point, Master describes the process, as it were, of the cocoon, the soul weaves through its mind, within which it is trying to isolate or individuate itself. At that stage, it grows even. And there, outer one is being formed by the mind. So it is the mind which is the powerful element in evolution. In fact, we have gone to this condition. But, at this level, also, we have developed certain other things, we began to develop pleasure. We began to discriminate between what is pleasant and what is painful, not what is right and wrong but what is pleasant and what is unpleasant. So, there are, even today, philosophers who consider that you will have to identify pain and pleasure with good and evil. The pleasant is good and pain is evil according to large masses of mankind. Some people invert it and say that pain is good, pleasure is evil. Either way, it does not solve the problem. We are in fact caught up in the dilemma of pleasure and what is less pleasure, and this has got wide application. In any case, man is today caught in this mind of dilemma and he wants to escape from this particular situation. But then, man also has, as I have stated, a peculiar and