Human and the Soul

Our soul can enter the earth only through the human form and can remember who she is only within the context of 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, she is of the now and the future. Even after soul-awakening, the human remains entrenched in the subconscious realm, tied to the dimension of forgetfulness. Due to his basic ignorance, he cannot merge with the soul and embrace her as his higher existence. In order to become whole, the soul not only must awaken to herself, but also absorb her human personality into her own consciousness. Only when the human has arrived at the essential degree of maturity, purity and understanding can he be aligned with the soul and ready to surrender.

Human Purity and the Soul

The human can never reach the transparent purity of the soul, as it is not in the nature of personality to embody perfection. On some level, the personality must 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 destiny 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. The human personality moves from its false center to the periphery of the soul's existence, and true subjectivity is awakened. The human returns what he took from the soul many eons ago - the knowledge of I am - and gradually gives up all 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 the inner plane as well as on earth.

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 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 the universal I am is the source of all her actions. She continuously evolves, not because she desires to consciously, 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 moment 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 noble goal of evolution - the awakening of the soul - our noble purpose for living in the dimension of forgetfulness.

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