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1.3.3 lokas

  Tonight I will discuss the relationship between the lokas or cosmic fields of projection with the concept of dimensional shift. You know, there are those who say that we exist in a multidimensional, multifaceted universe, that not all may be deemed purely physical. I would agree with these people. This is a multidimensional, multifaceted, multilayered universe. It is not simply a physical expression. In fact, there are seven layers, dimensions or spheres of cosmic expression in the universe. The most crudified sphere of cosmic expression is the physical world (bhurloka). Now you may say that it is a physical world, but for the cosmic entity it is perceived as a mental projection (bhuvarloka). This mental projection, which you know as the physical world, is the most crude mental projection. That means it is dominated primarily by tamaguna. Satvaguna is not active, rajaguna is very muted, and tamaguna is most dominant in the physical world. All that is perceived as substantial in the physical world and which the cosmic mind perceives as mental, but most solidified, is known as the bhuvarloka (bhurloka with respect to the unit entities) or the crude psychic projection of the cosmic entity. All that exists in this sphere operates upon the principles of physics relevant to material objects. This is the most crude of the spheres of cosmic projection.

  The next plane or dimension of cosmic expression is the mental world or svarloka. In this sphere of existence, the cosmic entity projects all of its imaginative forms. It is in this sphere that that most subtle entity takes upon itself mental expression. In this dimension, rajaguna is dominant, tamas is active and sattva is active. This is the active world of cosmic imagination. It is the cosmic mental sphere in which that cosmic projection, from which the crude physical world is composed, is first created in the mind of Parama Brahma. You see, in this plane the cosmic mind begins to imagine, create, and think. Here, the cosmic mind thinks up the manifest universe which is fully projected in his internal psychic projection, fully solidified in bhurloka. But in svarloka, it is only imagined, it has not yet become concrete. So in this sphere, the cosmic entity performs its most creative activities, its most dynamic functions, it is dominated by rajaguna, it is mutative. This world, this plane of reality is imaginative and mutative. All that exists in this sphere has to do with ideas, intellect, notions of the mind, mental projections, mental involvement.

  When a person dies and the unit mind is disassociated from the physical sphere, they will enter a kind of sleep in the physical sense. While in that dormant state (in relationship to the physical world), they will take their existence in svarloka. They will exist in the active imagination, stimulated by the play of sanskaras until once again they take a physical form. So all of these active mental realms, in which sanskara is mentally projected without physical expression, take place in svarloka. It is the cosmic mental sphere in which the supreme entity manifests the seeds of sanskaras in the unit mind and the seeds of the physical universe in the cosmic mind. It is from this active imagination that the well of manifest existence springs forth. Alright?

  Now, this sphere of active imagination, this mental plane of svarloka, lies within an even more subtle dimension. That dimension or realm of existence is the cosmic causal mind. This causal mind is the subtle cosmic projection in which the mental dimension of active imagination is held. The mental dimension of active imagination of the cosmic mind is the container in which the solidified mental projections, of bhurloka, are held. So each realm or dimension is more expansive and provides a base for the next. Thus the causal dimension is a base in which the mental world plays out.

  This causal projection is divided into three layers. Each of these layers constitutes a primary, secondary or tertiary dimensional adjustment. The layer in which the cosmic imaginative or active mental function has it's base, is the tertiary or the third layer of cosmic causal projection. In this, sattvaguna has some play, rajaguna is in seed form and tamas is not active. Thus in this dimension, the seed of mental expression exists. If one experiences this loka, this mahaloka, one will find that the entire physical universe is dormant and even the mental activities from which the physical universe has stemmed have ceased to exist. There is only the array of consciousness which has manifest itself in the form of potentialities. In this dimension, all existence, all manifestations are in the form of potentialities. Do you understand? They all exist. This is a dimension of the manifest universe, but in this dimension, the form which manifestation takes is not a physical or crude projection. It is not imagination or mental activity, it is potentiation. It is a type of activity. That is why I say, rajaguna exists in this sphere but it is in a seed form for all action in this sphere is in potentiation. It is held in potential in this dimension of manifestation. All the waves are inferential, they are in potential or held in potential existence.

In the next sphere, or svarloka, that potential will crudify to active mental projection which, in the following sphere or bhurloka, will become solidified. In mahaloka, in this world or dimension of reality, you will find the potentiation of all that exists. If one knows how to access this dimension, the very nature of reality in the next two spheres may be altered. It is the realm of potentiation of existence. This is the crudest layer of the cosmic causal projection of the manifest universe, for already the cosmic wave has taken form as potential. You may not consider it form but it is. It already is forming in potential.

  Now the base for this potentiation lies in the next sphere of the cosmic causal projection, or janarloka. This sphere is the realm of the cosmic sense of doership. You know, before an action can take place, even in potential, there must be one base for that action, one doer of the action. So in this sphere, in the sphere of knowledge, or janarloka, the cosmic mental projection takes upon itself the experience of doership. In this causal dimension comes the sense of the capacity to do. In this sphere, the cosmic mental function is the witnessing entity of the doership. So this mental projection of "I" with a feeling that "I may act", becomes the base of actions held in potentiality, which is the base of imaginative projection, which is the base of solidified projection within the mind of the Cosmic Entity. These are the dimensions of his cosmic projection.

  Now, there is an even more subtle sphere to the cosmic causal projection which is the base for all of these mental projections and that is the experience of "I"-ness, the experience of existence within the cosmic mind. In this pure causal dimension, or taparloka, the cosmic being first comes to recognize its own existence. Here, there is cognition of existence and it is the first sphere of mental function. Cognition of existence is the most subtle function and therefore the first expression of the cosmic mind in the causal sphere. Once the sense of existence is there, then the base is there for the experience of the potentiality of action and once the feeling is there of the potentiality of action, then those acts may form into manifestation in potential. Once the seeds of potentiality are planted, the active forces of rajaguna become fully manifest and the creative expression of the cosmic mind occurs and finally that creative expression takes solid form within the cosmic mental sphere. Thus the crude physical world is manifest.

  Now, these causal spheres exist within the cosmic mind as does the entire manifest universe. But the cosmic mind itself must also have a base in which it lies in potentiality and that base, for the cosmic sense of pure existence, is the cognition or awareness which underlies all manifestation. The pure, undifferentiated, sublime consciousness of Parama Purus'a forms the base for the cosmic sense of existence. For what exists? Who is it that exists? It is the knower of all that exists. And who is that knower of all? It is the pure, cognitive awareness of Parama Purus'a, otherwise known as Puru'sottama when in a non-attributional form, disassociated from all cosmic projections.

  Now, when this cognition becomes associated with the feeling of existence, when pure undifferentiated awareness comes to have a sense of existence, then this is the first projection of the cosmic mind and it takes place in taparloka. It is the most sublime, most subtle stage of cosmic projection and in this most subtle, causal state, the Purus'a, or awareness, is associated with the experience of existence. So in this stage, the cosmic cognitive awareness first becomes bound to the cosmic mental projection. Then, in the following causal crudification, the cognition or Purus'a becomes associated with, or witness to, the feeling of doership. There is, in this dimension, no manifestation, not even in potentiality. But there is merely a sense of the capacity of action, of manifestation. And that potentiality of action, that potentiality of manifestation, the sense of doership, is witnessed once again, or held in the field of the Purus'a or cognitive function. Then, when this potentiality to act is diverged into the potentiality of an infinite number of expressions, once again the cognitive Purus'a witnesses this divergence, this manifestation in potentiality. And when these potentialities come to exist in active mental form, again they are witnessed by the cognitive entity or the pure witnessing consciousness of Parama Purus'a.

  When those active mental projections become solidified in the multifarious forms of this manifest universe, the pure cognitive faculty of the infinite Purus'a remains associated with every molecule, every atom, every particle - no matter how minute, of this manifest universe. Without that associated cognition, manifestation will cease to exist. So, in all dimensions, Purus'a, or cognition, is the witness and base for the manifestation of the cosmic mind. And at each stage of this expression, that Purus'a may appear different because it is associated with a different function, a different dimension of the cosmic mind. But in reality, the Purus'a never changes, it is the same whatever it witnesses. It is pure, untainted, cognitive consciousness, witnessing all expression. So Parama Brahma, or the manifest universe, consists of both pure, unbound cognition or consciousness and a multidimensional, multilayered spiral of manifestation which is developed through the application of the operative principles within the cosmic mind. Thus, given the play of consciousness and operative principles, the entire manifest universe has come to exist. Alright? I think that is sufficient for tonight.