THE PATH TO TRUTH

 
The path to Truth has three sections, and each section is a world unto itself, yet each world overlaps the other. The path to Truth is of Light, and this Light has three forms of darkness — they are shadows.

Each of the three shadows overlaps the other. The mental world is the shadow of the Seventh plane, and the subtle world is the shadow of the mental world, and the gross world is the shadow of the subtle world.

It is through these worlds of shadows that one must journey to realize the Truth.

Sanskaras prevent one from seeing the Light. Gross sanskaras cause one to see gross shadows; subtle sanskaras cause one to see the subtle shadows, and mental sanskaras cause one to see the mental shadows.

Shadows only have existence because of the existence of sanskaras, and it is these very sanskaras that give life to these shadows.

Gross sanskaras are made of gross matter; subtle sanskaras are made of subtle matter; and mental sanskaras are made of mental matter.

Naturally, gross sanskaric matter is dense, subtle sanskaric matter is fine, and mental sanskaric matter is the very finest.

Subtle and mental sanskaric matter cannot be seen by gross eyes, but for the sake of example so you see how the sanskaras unwind along the path, let us visualize this:

First, the path is straight like a strong rod.

Second, the gross sanskaras are like rope, subtle sanskaras are finer like a cord, and mental sanskaras are finest like thread.

Third, the unnatural sanskaras are at the end of the rod, twisted in every which way, and thereby are knotted into a mess. Thus one sees here unnatural sanskaras cannot be unwound; they must be cut.

One sees that when unnatural sanskaras disappear, the natural gross sanskaras twist themselves along the rod becoming thinner and thinner, until they are a subtle cord.

The subtle sanskaras twist themselves around the rod, becoming thinner and thinner, until they in turn become mental threads.

These mental sanskaric threads twist themselves around and around the rod, until they gradually become so fine that they disappear altogether.