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in laya with the higher or lower state of consciousness and in particular when blessed by the grace of a samarthaguru can transcend the state of Brahman or even the Parabrahman consciousness and still move on further as has been indicated above. As Revered. Dr. K.C.Varadachari puts it (CW1 p189), ‘We have to go beyond the Jiva and beyond the Brahman to a condition which is neither thought or motion—thought and motion almost came together, they are like time and space the two coordinates of existence.’
Speaking more practically, the practicants of PAM are aware of this growth in consciousness from the Pind level to the Brahmand level especially when they offer the universal prayer at 9 pm wherein it is prayed for that all the people in the world are our brothers and sisters and they are developing true love, faith and devotion to the Master. It is not a prayer for the individual alone but it is for all. It is not a feeling that comes naturally in the beginning as our consciousness is mostly confined to this body and so Pinda and hence the atman- consciousness.
Brahman is the one which grows out of this, a thought which grows out of this body consciousness and becomes universal in scope. Tradition held that atman or the soul is an indivisible entity having no parts whereas our Great Masters have shown that atman is a conglomerate of buddhi, manas, ahankar and chit i.e., intellect, feeling, ego and consciousness. The individuality is a composite of the ego, manas and buddhi with all their hues (saatvic, rajasic and tamasic) and this is what is reborn based on its own choice to undergo certain portion of the karmas accumulated by it in the past life experiences it had.
The Pure Consciousness element never undergoes modifications though it remains as the substratum of the transforming individuality which identifies itself with the experiences as doer, knower and enjoyer and goes through various embodiments till it releases itself from bondage by adopting a proper method such as PAM under the guidance and assistance of a guide of caliber capable of offering Pranahuti. When all the aforesaid faculties of the atman are applied to one’s own limited self it is Atman and when the same are applied to the universe it is Brahman. By virtue of the help provided by the competent guide through Pranahuti we grow from atman level to the Brahman level. This is what the Vedic seers meant when they said theatman becomes Brahman indicating that the atman is capable of becoming Brahman, thus capable of growing from the animal level in which most of us live to the human level and from there on to the Divine level.
Parallelism in nature
Line of divinity and line of humanity