When the seer crosses the sixth plane with the help of a Perfect Master and is pushed across the abyss, his experience is of an infinite vacuum. It cannot be described. There is neither seer nor seen; neither nothing, nor everything. It is the Real Nothing. But this Real Nothing is immediately followed by Union with God, Who is everything. The vacuum is infinite, and it must be filled by the infinite. That is the experience when one is pushed into the seventh plane. So even saints of the sixth plane of consciousness, who see God everywhere, do not know what the Real Nothing is.
About answering questions on this discourse: To tell you the truth, I do not like questions and answers. From the beginningless beginning, I asked one question, "Who am I?" And I gave one answer, "I am God!" All other questions and answers do not interest me. Still, to please you, I will listen to questions and answer them. Harry [Kenmore] is full of questions.
Someone asked, "Do persons on the spiritual planes of consciousness take birth having consciousness of the same plane?" Baba replied:
Yes, but the emergence of consciousness is very gradual, as when a person of gross consciousness dies and is reborn with consciousness of the gross world. The child gradually becomes aware, as it grows older, of the same old gross world according to past experiences of the gross. A child born with consciousness of a certain plane is not all at once conscious of the plane. The plane unfolds very gradually as the child gradually grows. Later in life this child, grown up as a man, gets established in the life of his respective plane of consciousness, as a man of the gross world gets established in his worldly life.
Thus, a person of the gross world dies to reincarnate conscious of the gross world. So also a person of the particular plane of consciousness reincarnates conscious of that respective plane of consciousness of his previous life. He may or may not make further progress in the planes of higher consciousness. Progress will depend on the help of a spiritual guide of a higher plane, or the grace of the Perfect Master, or on his own efforts in the life of that particular plane of consciousness.