Human and the Soul

The soul can enter the earth only through the human form and can remember who she is only within her human consciousness. The dormant soul needs the human to realize herself, but the moment she awakens she is faced with the fundamental discord between her human nature and her eternal essence. The human is of the past; the soul is of the now and the future. Only when the human has arrived at an essential degree of maturity, purity and understanding can he be aligned with the soul and become ready to surrender.

human purity and the soul

The human can never reach the transparent purity of the soul, as it is not the nature of the personality to embody perfection. On some level, the personality will always reflect the imperfections of the time dimension to which it is subject. For this reason, sages of the past who wished to bypass the imperfect quality of personality renounced both the mind and the world. If we choose to live in the world, how­ever, we must accept that perfect harmony can never be attained on the human level; at most we can achieve a minimum of discord and a maximum of peace and purity. To become pure and real, a human must come as close as he possibly can to the soul. When the process of purification is complete, the relationship between the human and the soul reaches its optimum transparency and the true purpose of the human is realized — to reflect and serve the soul on earth.

surrender to the soul

It is our destiny that upon completion our human aspect must sur­render to the soul. From the point of this surrender onwards it is no longer the human, but the soul, who is ‘in charge’ of living on earth. When the human personality moves from its false center to the periphery of the soul’s existence, true subjectivity is awakened. The human returns that which he took from the soul many eons ago — the knowledge of I am — and gives up all of the identities he accumulated over the course of time.

We cannot realize the state of surrender without first undergo­ing a deep purification that enables our human aspect to fuse with the soul. From this union emerges the unified energy of a whole human being — one who has gone beyond personality, yet continues to expand on earth, as well as on the inner plane.

serving the soul

After his surrender, the role of the human is to yield to the transcen­dent will of the soul. He does not merely submit to a reality deeper than himself; he serves his own highest good, for the will of the soul is one with our supreme wisdom and the evolution of universal intelligence.

We serve the soul by supporting her expansion into light, not by constantly striving to reach higher spiritual goals. The soul has no goals, she has a purpose: she exists to totally experience each now. The soul lives in emptiness, beyond the mind, her will merged with the will of the whole. Her existence is not based on psychological continuity, but on the wisdom of the now. Spontaneous inspiration coming from her higher being and universal I am is the source of all her actions. She continuously evolves, not because she consciously desires to do so, but because it is her nature to grow. If the soul were to halt in her evolution, she would delay the universal expansion of which she is an indivisible manifestation.

A human who has surrendered to the soul still has a personality and carries human memories, but does not have a crystallized sense of false identity. Unified in all aspects with his higher being, he is no longer human in an ordinary sense: his existence belongs to the soul. From the viewpoint of integral consciousness, only one being exists within us — the one who owns the knowledge of I am, the soul.

the human being

At this point we can perhaps begin to understand what it means to be a human being. As psychosomatic creatures restricted to ego-consciousness, most humans have neither soul nor being — they are body and mind alone. Just to be born human does not make one a being. A true person is an awakened soul actualized on the earth-plane as a human being.

We can see the complete human being both as a human who has surrendered to the soul, and a soul who has transcended, embraced and integrated her human manifestation within herself. One does not become a human being merely by belonging to mankind. To become a human being, one must fulfill the exalted goal of evolution — the awakening of the soul — our true purpose for living in the dimension of forgetfulness.