Had there been no accumulation of sanskaras, man would have become conscious of himself as God as soon as he took the first human form. But due to innumerable sanskaras, the wheel of birth and death rotates in a zigzag fashion. That is, the soul takes the male form, then the female form, good-bad, ugly-beautiful, king-beggar, and so on in the process of reincarnation. And after every death sanskaras are shaken up.
At last the process of involution begins [when the mind's consciousness becomes subtle]. The mind persists up to the fifth plane [in the form of thoughts]. In the fifth plane, mind works through itself. In the sixth plane, mind does not work, but becomes the inner eye and sees God face to face. In the sixth plane there is superconsciousness. In the seventh plane the mind is annihilated and man achieves God-consciousness.
In the dream state, man uses his subtle body and experiences sub-consciousness, but the subtle body is very hazy, just like a vapor or cloud. But when man is on the subtle planes — from the first to fourth plane — he experiences sub-super consciousness with the subtle body. The experience of the subtle body is very bright.
Baba continued his explanations about the higher planes and the types of dreams two days later, on 14 June:
When a Qutub works on the subtle and mental planes, he has not to exert his physical body at all. But on the gross plane, exertion is necessary for his working in the physical world, in order to help the animate and inanimate objects in gross consciousness.
The majzoob of the seventh plane is called by Vedantists bal-unmant-pishash , and termed by Sufis as the Prince. The Sadguru or Qutub is called the King, and the Avatar or Rasool is the King of Kings.
In eternity there is no past and future. There is only the eternal present. But in the awake dream state, the past and future hinges round the present. The dream while sleeping is a dream into dream. This dream of sleep is of three kinds: pure dreams, hallucinations and nightmares. Hallucinations and nightmares have no connection with past and future. But a pure dream is connected with the past and future.