object:10.18 - Short Notes - 1- The Sense of Earthly Evolution
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
Miracles: Their True Significance 2) God Above and God Within
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part TenShort Notes1) The Sense of Earthly Evolution
1) The Sense of Earthly Evolution
Ignorance is usually equated with innocence. A child is ignorant, therefore he is innocent. Although it is said that ignorance of law is no excuse. Spiritually however, ignorance does not mean innocence. Ignorance or unconsciousness or inconsciencedifferent degrees of the same thingthat is to say lack of consciousness, mean, at bottom, falsehood. It is through the ignorance that Maya, the great illusion, was born. Ignorance is false apprehension, it begins with the sense of separation, "I am other than the Divine." That is how Jiva is born in or through the ignorance. The world is separate from the Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation appears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing is separate from the supreme Consciousness, all is That.
To regain the Truth-sense, to move upward in the cycle of ignorance and falsehood towards this Truth-sense is the world-labour and also human labour.
Even in the state of separation under conditions of the in conscience and falsehood, in spite of all appearances the Unity, the Truth-consciousness remains intact behind. It is never effaced or obliterated.
The sense of earthly evolution is the gradual unfolding of the Divine, the Supreme Consciousness in and through the gradations of consciousness from the inconscience through unconsciousness and consciousness to supra-consciousnessMatter wholly transmuted into Light.
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Miracles: Their True Significance 2) God Above and God Within
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