The Inner Reality by Paul Brunton
By Paul Brunton
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And so with the consciousness of spirit. The consciousness by which you work and move and act throughout the day is essentially spiritual, only it is coming through some dim and rather remote window-panes, through the intellect, and through the body, and we do not recognize it as the inner light. That is why meditation is needed. Meditationjs the process of interiorization. ojhw^drawal. if you imagine the coloured light which is beyond the redglazed screen indrawing itself into the glass, then coming behind it, indrawing itself still farther, then returning behind the yellow pane and then ultimately reaching the original white lamp, you have the perfect picture of what meditation is.
By a change of heart and mental attitude, half of the evil destiny could be swept away at once. But if we cannot change, or do not understand the need of a change, then the blind forces of destiny must go on and do their work. To achieve this settlement of destiny, everything which is hidden is being brought out, everything that is at the bottom is coming to the surface, and we see some things in the soul of mankind which are fine, but also many things which are ugly and even ghastly. Because this is a closing period, a transition from one age to another, the psychic forces for good and for evil are more active and more open than ever before.
First of all it the very purpose of incarnation here. It is the reason why we have been born, and until and unless we attain that understanding, we will have to continue the weary cycle of birth and death. It must be found in the flesh, not in any spirit, psychic, or mental world, or even in dreamless sleep. The spirit, the Overseh\ symbolized by Jesus as the kingdom of heaven, must be found here is me full waking consciousness. sleep is the nearest approach to heaven which the average person can reach.