Baba closed his eyes; then opened them and continued his dictation.
Now the eyes are opened because the veil of the mind and body has disappeared.
If you listen carefully, your eyes will open too!
Baba signaled to Deshmukh to proceed with the main points about the explanation of the Divine Theme chart.1 After some time, Baba pointed to a large drawing of the chart and stated:
This soul — start from "A" — has to become "Z," God. In truth, both are the same — the One. But for this "A" to become "Z," it has to go through the evolution, reincarnation and Realization processes.
Now, what is represented on the chart? Red represents sanskaras, blue represents consciousness. "S" represents the Soul. What you will find from "A" to "Z" about the red and blue, is that the red and the blue both go on increasing until the human form.
But in the Realization process, what do you see? The red gradually decreases, the blue remains the same and in the "Z" state the red completely disappears, leaving only the blue. That means that up to the human form, during the evolution and reincarnation processes, the sanskaras increase, but so also does consciousness. And in the Realization process, the sanskaras gradually decrease and only consciousness remains.
Again, pointing to the chart, Baba continued:
The winding of sanskaras is shown like this, and the thread begins from here. The unwinding process is shown in this way. From "A" is the winding process. This represents seven stages of "descent," and "Z" shows the ascent [involution], although both appear quite the reverse on the chart.
Now, pay attention to this. All these are souls, but in different forms like stone, metal, vegetable, animal, et cetera. The corresponding forms are shown above. Remember what I tell you now. All these forms and worlds in reality do not exist. What exists is only jivatma [individual souls] and Paramatma . Both are the same. But for the sake of explanation, we take this as jivatma, and that as Paramatma. Though they appear absolutely different, in fact, they are one and the same.
Gadekar was fully engrossed in what Baba was saying and Ghani was laughing at him. Thereupon, Baba remarked:
It should be like that. We should go through all this smilingly; if not, it becomes tedious.
What do you have to try to grasp from this chart? First, listen carefully. It is very simple.
Footnotes
- 1.See Chart IX in God Speaks, 2nd edition, p. 224.