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Approaches to the Divine.
Partial — Integral
Different Approaches' to the Divine
IT seems to me that these differences of valuations
come from the mind laying stress on one side
or another of the approach to the Divine or exalting
one aspect of realisation over another. When there is
the approach through the heart, through Love and
Bhakti, the highest culmination is in a transcendent
Ananda, an unspeakable Bliss or Beatitude of union
with the Divine through Love. The school of Chaitanya
laid especial and indeed sole emphasis on this
way and made this the whole reality of Krishna consciousness.
But the transcendent Ananda is there at
the origin and end
The Central Being and the Soul
THE soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual
existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious
form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the
persistent process that develops first life in matter,
mind in life, until finally mind can develop into
overmind and overmind into the Supramental Truth.
The soul supports the nature in its evolution through
these grades, but is itself not any of these things.
The lower Nature, Apara Prakriti, is this external
objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature
which manifests all these minds, lives and bodies.
The supreme Nature, Para Prakri