There’s an expectation on the physical plane that individual beings have rights and privileges and legality of anything needs to be based on at least acknowledgment of that principle, through majority rule, if not outright consensus.
There is no such thing in “heaven”, or however you might call the higher planes of existence. The concept of everyone having equal rights is not only something that would be seen as strange, it would be seen as outright blasphemous. I will explain why.
You see, the physical plane creates a particular illusion, that existence is defined by the physical body. This creates an assumption that every-body has rights, and justice means equality of rights for all. However, if you remove the physical body, what remains can contradict this appearance greatly. Remove one body, and you have a whirl of energy, barely maintaining continuity of existence and consciousness. Remove another body, you have a well defined “soul” with a complex history and deep consciousness. How do you even think about equality when the entire existence contradicts this concept?
Well, there actually is something similar. There is democracy in heaven. There can be a “vote”. It’s just that it’s not the “souls” that vote, because this is an arbitrary concept, since the “souls” can break apart or aggregate into more sophisticated structures. No, it’s the individual kalapas, the “particles of consciousness”, that “vote”. The more kalapas aggregate in a structure, the more value it has, because, for all intents and purposes, greater aggregation of kalapas into greater density-substances makes something “more of God” than something else. An astral bug is God to a very small degree. A Divine being that is crystallized light and consciousness is God to a much greater degree. That’s the closest I can get to describing it using human language, but it’s not very difficult to understand how for instance Jesus would be “more God” than a saint, a saint would be “more God” than a sinful soul, and a sinful soul would be “more God” than a soul so rudimentary it can barely maintain a continuity of individual consciousness.
Essentially, the kalapas “vote” by “choosing” to aggregate or to disperse, if you want to put it that way, and if something contains more kalapas it has more “rights”. It’s more complicated than that, because privileges can exist separately from the defining core of one’s being, but basically, if you meet a Divine being, saying “who gave you the right to judge me” might not be the smartest thing.
The concept of aggregation of kalapas forming souls is foreign to Christianity, but it’s commonly understood in Buddhism and if you think about it, it explains things much better than “God made souls to be different”. Well, yeah, you can put it that way, but aggregation of kalapas is how that happened, and you’re not an innocent victim of God’s whims, because your structure is a result of your own personal choices. For all intents and purposes, you created yourself by relating to everything else and defining yourself against God.
This means that the structure of authority in Heaven has nothing to do with democracy or “human rights”. It has more to do with “dignitas”, as the Romans would frame it. You have dignity that emanates from your being and is proportional to your spiritual magnitude. If you reduced your dignity by making evil choices, you might not be worth much and in fact your being might not last. On the other hand, if you made virtuous choices, if you always chose God before all other things and your actions reflected those choices, your dignity might be great, and will automatically grant you respect, privileges and, in fact, something akin to “rank”. Other beings might consult with you, your opinion will be sought and respected, and your will might have weight in all kinds of decision-making. It’s basically aristocracy, the rule of the virtuous, only for real. If you find yourself in a position where you lack personal dignity, and you act arrogantly as you were taught to act on Earth, calling upon your “rights” and questioning the “right” of others to pass judgement upon you, meat grinder might go brrrrrrrr.
And yes, as a postscriptum, lots of “dignitas” equals “imperium”, to keep it within the Roman analogy. Although, “imperium” is not something automatic that emanates from the soul-structure, it is a special thing that is granted, let’s say Divine Authority, literally the power of God or power sanctified by God, although I’m not happy with the formulation because it’s too mundane and sounds arbitrary, while it is everything but. It’s total and absolute.
Unless you do that here, then in best case it’ll get you ridicule.
Sure, but this place amounts to nothing, really.
And are kalapas inside same “soul structure” same but different? As in they share same core (can’t find better word), but each has different aspect that adds to it? Is it a single kalapa of those that can get incarnated here?
I don’t understand any of this, and I can’t tell if it’s a language issue or something else.
I will assume you’re asking me whether a soul structure is isothropic, being made of kalapas that are of the same energy level, or anisothropic, being made of kalapas of various energy levels. The answer is, it’s usually anisothropic. Isothropic structure is quite uncommon and usually precedes initiation into a higher energy level. Anisothropic structure means all kinds of things, but usually that your spiritual structure has “interests” and “understandings” of varying levels of sophistication. It can also mean, essentially, that all things are not “clear” to you, at least on the same level of understanding. Some understandings can be quite advanced, while others lag behind, and this can be seen as “light” of different “colors”, and opacity.
A single kalapa is something that is quite difficult to understand intuitively, because it’s too simple to give you intuitive understanding if you don’t have practical experiences with them. Let’s say it’s the most basic emanation of God’s light into the relative, it’s essentially a spiritual boson. They are of inherent sat-cit-anandamaya nature, which means it’s not a “stupid” particle, but has some degree of consciousness, reality and blissfullness. How exactly do they vary in “wavelength”, is beyond my ability to theoretically explain because I’m not sure whether such phenomena actually exist on the level of a singular kalapa, or is it an emergent property of aggregation. They are simply too tiny for me to observe, and I’m not sure what’s my actual resolution, ie. do I perceive isolated kalapas or just the tinyest aggregations that I can still perceive.
I don’t know whether a singular kalapa can form material incarnation, or if there is some minimal threshold, because life exists on a scale, and some rudimentary forms may indeed be coupled with individual kalapas. Also, how exactly is the coupling realized, I don’t know. I have ideas but I’m not sure if they are true.
Since I’m still not sure what you’re asking me, I’ll stop here.
Oops, I’m sorry, it’s probably my fault trying to find words for things I haven’t experienced before. Other day I had wow moment when.. this is kinda difficult to write down without sounding silly. In short, I was shown by “someone” (obviously in relation to me) that what I thought is me, what makes me what I am, is also found in that other person. But at the same time it is obvious this person is also different, perhaps like different aspect of same core.
Well, it might be the message of Vedanta, that Self is one, and its division in beings is illusory. Honestly, that’s the least useful information of all time, but it certainly does sound profound. It doesn’t, however, tell you anything about the things you would normally want to know, for instance, answers to any of your actual problems. Also, I have a very nasty impression that Sanat Kumar used experiences of samadhi to put yogis in a state of “navel gazing”, where they basically stone themselves with the experience of unity and never ask any relevant questions and don’t do anything he would find threatening. That’s why I slowly develped an aversion towards anything that is even remotely reminiscent of it.
I don’t think it had anything with samadhi, it was too personal and limited to just one person. For some reason this blog post made me think about it and build myself some kind of internal explanation. That’s all.
It’s probably defined on higher complexity level than kalapa, maybe more “souls” sharing same personality but each with different aspect.
And yes, as a postscriptum, lots of “dignitas” equals “imperium”, to keep it within the Roman analogy. Although, “imperium” is not something automatic that emanates from the soul-structure, it is a special thing that is granted, let’s say Divine Authority, literally the power of God or power sanctified by God, although I’m not happy with the formulation because it’s too mundane and sounds arbitrary, while it is everything but. It’s total and absolute.