After the Divine Realisation, why hasn’t our nature had a Transformation? 3. In which way will the yoga of Transformation will be helping Humanity? 4. When one goes towards the Divine, difficulties come, but when Transformation starts, then difficulties come in a much larger way. Then what is the difference between these two things? 5. What is the difference in realizing the Divine in the mind and above the mind?
To understand transformation one needs to understand the different parts of our being, especially the practical distinction between soul and nature. The contact with the Divine Consciousness is generally in some part of our being at first, usually in the higher mind or the inner being or in rare instances in the soul itself. This contact is a first experience of only one or other aspect of the Divine. It has to grow, deepen, become integral to include other aspects of the Divine as well.
These experiences take time to be settled as a permanent truth or fact of our being. When this happens, then we use the word realisation. The Divine in whatever aspect or status becomes real to us. We are then in constant contact with the Divine. Depending upon the point of contact and the experience we have the different categories. A saint is someone who realises the Divine in the inmost heart. A seer is someone who is awake in and open to the higher planes and has the mantra. A Muni is a thinker dwelling in some plane of higher mind. A Yogi has united with some aspect of the Divine or the other.
All this is,beautiful and great and true but it does not change Nature, at most leaves an impact upon the inner being. See the stories of saints and sages who, even with extraordinary experiences and powers could be very ordinary in certain parts of their nature. It is somewhat like a man who has learnt the highest computer skills but his operating system is old. He needs to upgrade his computer to apply what he has learnt. You can see the dance of Shiva and hear Krishna’s flute but one is unable to translate it here because the legs, the breath, the instruments are poor.
Transformation is about changing these instruments and replace the present inferior working of the mind, life and body with a higher Supernature. It means substituting our lower human nature with the higher Divine Nature. It is a long and exacting process and does not happen automatically once one has realised the Divine. It means that the mind of ignorance is transformed into a Mind of Light, a mind capable of knowing whatever It wants to know. It is upgrading of the human intelligence to the Divine Intelligence. Similarly the present human heart is replaced by a receptacle of vast universal love and sweetness and harmony and joy. It means the replacing the present struggling life moved by desire into a luminous force moved by the Divine Shakti and Will. It means, eventually replacing the present human body prone to disease and death with a luminous, plastic divine body, spontaneously immune to diseases and eventually escaping the law of death. It means replacing the ego with the true divine centre, the psychic being and, as these new beings increase, the emergence of a new divine race, a superhuman race, a new supramental species and a new creation upon earth.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
