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<span style='font-weight:700'><font size="4">Narada - Sanatkumara </font> <span style='mso-tab-count:
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none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(Chhandogya Upanishad)<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
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10.0pt'>ISHI </span>Sanatkumara was once approached by Narada (evi­dently not
yet become a Rishi), who said, &quot;Lord, I desire to be taught by you. Please
teach me.&quot; The Rishi replied, &quot;Very well, but first tell me how much
you know; then I shall tell you if you need more.&quot; Narada thereupon made
out an inventory of his learning; it was a formidable list. &quot;My Lord, this
is what I have learnt: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda, the Fifth
Veda comprising History and Mythology; next, Grammar, Mathematics, Logic and
Politics, the Science of Computing Time, Theology, Fine Arts and the Ritual
Lore; Demonology, Astrology, and the Art of Predicting Fate; the Knowledge of
Ancestors and of Serpents. I know all this, my Lord, and very well. This has
made me master of the Word, but has not given me knowledge of the Self. I have heard
that only by the know­ledge of the Self can one pass beyond sorrow and pain. I
am immersed in sorrow and pain, please reach me to the other shore.&quot;</p>

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text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sanatkumara said, &quot;All that you have studied and
learnt is nothing but 'Name', no more than words. You have reached as far as
'Name' can take you, giving you as fruit the power to roam at will, that is,
you can go unimpeded where you will. But that is about all.&quot; Then Narada
asked, &quot;Is there anything superior to Name?&quot; &quot;Of course, there
is,&quot; replied Sanatkumara. &quot;Then tell me about it.&quot; &quot;<st1:City><st1:place>Superior</st1:place></st1:City>
to Name is Speech, that is, Name with form and meaning.&quot; Thus he went on 
replying to the series of Narada's questions. </p>

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<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Speech, Mind, Will, Thought, Medita­tion,
Knowledge – these are the ascending grades, each higher than the one preceding.
And each carries with it the power to move at will. The goal of this ascending
series is, to use our own terminology, a widening of the conscious­ness. As we
rise from grade to higher grade, our conscious­ness gains in width and depth
and intensity.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
after Meditation comes Power. It seems that marks the end of one series and the
beginning of another. The first seven of the earlier series represent the line
of our externa­lised consciousness already manifest. But these powers or
functions cannot get their full play by remaining confined to the field of our
inner being. In order to make them active and fruitful and effective in
practice, Power is needed, the power of work. Hence, under this category of
Power, are grouped the fourfold series that constitute in essence the material
world in its forms of solids, liquids, energy and air - the fifth or ethereal
element is omitted for it is not rele­vant here. The solids form the body's
material substance, the liquids give it life and mobility, energy is stamina
and prowess, air gives it the sense of width and expansion. What sustains them
all as their basic support has been termed Power, which ordinarily conveys the
sense of capacity and strength.</p>

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beyond this second series there is a fresh turn which takes us round to the
third. Here we get to the realm of the subliminal, with its silent movements
behind our ordinary consciousness. This series consists of Memory, Hope, Life -
­force and Truth. In our language, Memory is constant remembrance, Hope is
aspiration, Life-force is energy at work, and Truth means the rejection of
falsehood and the unreal and the acceptance of what is real and true. Beyond
this there is yet another series, the ascent to which lies in taking a further
turn from behind. The first step on this path is Knowledge, that is, knowledge
of the Vast and the Particular. The second step is Contemplation, implying a<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>concentrated
one-pointedness. The third is Faith, an un­wavering trust. Faith implies
steadfastness and, to make the latter effective, there is need of action, its
application in life, making it concrete. Finally, action, leads to joy, it is
indeed the mainspring of action. We know that joy alone is the essence of
creation, joy is its source, joy the ultimate end. But the Rishi says, this joy
is no ordinary pleasure; its other name is the Vastness – the Vast verily is
the Delight, there is no joy in the smallness, says the Text.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Starting
from &quot;Name&quot;, outermost expression and most concrete figure of gross
physical substance, we have risen by stages to another Name of substance, to
the Supreme Name, into the Highest Consciousness, from the uttermost division
of the individualised ego to the endless infinity of Being. This progress or
ascent of the consciousness or being has not been in a simple straight line, it
has taken a zigzag serpentine path. First to develop were, as I have said, the
parts of the externalised or manifest being; this is the stage of the waking mentality.
On this level, the highest attain­ment is Knowledge. From Name or gross
physical Word as our starting-point, we arrive in the end at its culmination as
the knowledge of particulars, what we call the power of discrimination. But
the, growth and cultivation of the mind alone is not enough. For its sufficient
development and capacity there is needed a physical capacity that has the body
as its base. That is why, in the second stage of our progress, there is a
turning back from the mind down to a lower level, for the cultivation of this
physical base, in order to attain mastery there. Once the base got firmly
established, the consciousness had to take another turn and enter upon a new
stage of its progress. This was in the realm of the inner being. In this stage,
there was gained the acquaintance and control of the functions and powers that
work from behind the physical mind. From here there is the ascent to the fourth
step while still keeping behind the veil, on to the gates of the spiritual
consciousness, crossing beyond the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>limits of our ordinary
state. Already, as we reached the level of the life-force, the Rishi had
something new to say: one who gained entry into the inner or universal life
became &quot;extraordinary&quot;, in that he had passsed the limits of his
ordinary consciousness, crossed over to the other side. And one who got firmly
established in the integral Truth of the final stage attained the state of
superconscience.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">According to our present-day Science there is no
such thing as motion in a straight line, all movement has to take a zigzag
serpentine path. The reason is that the created universe is actually spherical
in shape, all lines on it must be curves. And because of the gravitational
pull, all mo­tions in it must be wave-motions. All progress or forward movement
in the consciousness of man or in the lines of creation must likewise be a
spiral movement. In the course of an ascent or forward movement, one can notice
one thing, namely, that one has to pass again through the same place or
condition which one has-already crossed once. In actual fact one does not
return to precisely the same place or condi­tion, but certainly to an analogous
place or situation: it is as if a replica of the earlier state appearing once
again in the next higher stage or forward position.</p>

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know that the same process applies to our spiritual endeavour or even in
ordinary training, when a particular quality or state has to be made more
firmly and fully estab- lished. If, for example, peace is established in the first
state of mind, in its physical functioning, the same state of peace has to be
established over and over again in the depths of the inner being and on its
ascending peaks. A somewhat similar method or process of working is noticeable
in the path shown here by Rishi Sanatkumara to Narada. At the beginning of the
series is the physical mind, at the end is the spiritual mind. The physical
mind is the slave of sense) the spiritual mind is to become centred in God. The
first series ends with Knowledge, Knowledge again begins the last series. It
seems that the first is the knowledge of particulars,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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Vastness.</p>

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started on the march of consciousness with &quot;Name&quot;. He has passed from
stage to stage, from level to higher level, till at last he has crossed beyond
the material &quot;Name&quot; to the Supreme Name, Brahman. Thus surpassing the
state of mortal man, he has at last attained the status of Rishi.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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