﻿What is Soul? What supports the soul? How was the universe created? How will it dissolve? How
is it expanding? How is the higher world beyond this physical world?
So here, this is very significant, because even in my childhood, I understood vedas as the books.
But Lalaji Maharaj clarifies it emphatically - Veda means knowledge.
Knowledge doesn't belong to any particular religion, knowledge
doesn't belong to any particular country. It is Universal. It is something like science.
Science, of course, has its own limitations because we try to use science for this
material world, the science of medicine, science of engineering. Knowledge,
according to Lalaji Maharaj, should be encompassing everything, not only this
manifested material world and how the principles play out in the materialistic world, but also
what supports this bhoutik (materialistic) world. What supports my physical body?
How psychology, the mind and various neurological aspects play out in our body? What influence
our moods have on this neurology and ultimately on our behavior?
It is well-studied but still not fully understood, and the most complex thing is consciousness.
People are still scratching the surface of this concept. What supports this consciousness,
it is yet to be comprehended. What is soul? What supports the soul? How was the Universe created?
How will it dissolve? How is it expanding? How is the higher world beyond this physical world?
What about the lower worlds of which we are not aware, Lalaji says ‘netherworld’.
So there is a lot to vedas, the all accomplished, all-encompassing knowledge,
that also includes science. So, spirituality in a broader sense, is the universal set,
while science is a subset of the universal set.
When he is talking of this Spirit or the Power which is all pervading, all surrounding reality
which keeps up the identity of creation, this is all about prana, the life force.
And here he is also talking of the lower nature. Then, what is the higher nature? Higher prakriti
is the one from which the lower prakriti has descended. In the hierarchy of our own existence,
what is higher - the physical body or the body that supports it from within, the subtle bodies?
So in that fashion, we can question, what is higher,the subtle bodies or the causal body”
So there is a hierarchy. There is a lower prakriti, which is called apra prakriti
and their is higher prakriti, we call it para, or
transcended prakriti, which supports the lower prakriti, just as the causal body
supports the subtle bodies and the subtle body supports the grosser, the physical body.
Lalaji Maharaj is talking about this Universal
intelligence which is all pervading. In a way, it is supported by this power we call Prana.
Simple things like planting an ash gourd or a lauki, and how this creeper develops tentacles.
And a time comes when these tentacles hook onto a support. What guides these tentacles to hook onto
the support? What intelligence do they have ?
They do not have eyes, the winds are against them, and yet they hook onto it.
This is intelligence, all pervading intelligence.