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PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IN THE NEXT INCARNATION

Meher Baba

 
Do persons on the spiritual planes of consciousness take birth having consciousness of the same plane? Yes, but the consciousness is very gradual, as when a person of gross-consciousness dies and is reborn with consciousness of the gross world. The child gradually becomes aware, as it grows older, of the same gross world according to past experiences of the gross. A child born with consciousness of a certain plane is not all at once conscious of the plane. The plane unfolds very gradually as the child grows.

Later in life, this child as a man is established in the life of his respective plane-consciousness, as a man of the gross world gets established in his worldly life. Thus, a person of the gross world dies to reincarnate as of the gross world; so also a person of a particular plane of consciousness reincarnates as of that respective plane of consciousness and then gradually gets established in the plane of consciousness of his previous life. He may or may not make further progress in the planes of higher consciousness. Progress depends on the help of a spiritual guide of a higher plane, on the grace of a Perfect Master, or on his own efforts in the life of that particular plane of consciousness.

 

THE GOD-MAN, C. B. Purdom, p. 329
1971 © Meher Spiritual Center, Inc.

               

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