The Antahkarana, by Alfonso del Rosario

  • 2011

Probably, the most important work of internal realization that any person can freely, voluntarily and consciously perform, is to achieve the construction of the bridge of light or continuity of consciousness that unites their human part, with their divine part. Because of both the individual and group implications of this type of comprehensive training, true mystery schools, since ancient times have always placed special emphasis on this type of teaching and training. Since the end of the nineteenth century the definition of Antakarana, a Sanskrit word, appears in the West, which although it has different interpretations according to the different philosophical schools, the most widespread, is the one that refers to the Path or Bridge that joins Manas Superior (spiritual mind and abstract) with Lower Manas (logical and analytical mind). That is, the union of the divine and transcendent part of the human being, with its objective and personal part. This union serves as a means of communication between both aspects, making possible the transmission of any type of impression, be it an emotion, desire or thought, so that they can be assimilated or retained by the timeless and imperishable entity of the Ego or Higher Self .

Ancient Wisdom says about the Antakarana, which is like… “ A thread of golden light that unites the Soul to the Personality, the Higher Mind to the Lower Mind, establishing that continuity of consciousness, which consciously establishes the Soul with the Mind and the Brain of Man ” .

The study, practice and conscious realization of Antakarana, is therefore the most important and suggestive attempt that man can make to consciously accelerate his evolution and expansion of his consciousness, thus reducing time, than in normal conditions and according to the Law of Evolution, it would take long ages to get.

The realization of Antakarana marks a crucial fact in life, in the conscience and in the personality of the seeker or aspirant to the Path. The gradual achievement of the internal connection between its two natures, the divine and the human, makes consciously establish the contact between the physical world of the effects of daily life, with the world of the causes that produce them. When man, at some stage of his existence, achieves this link between the personal and the transcendent, he comes to live, feel and become one with all the Planetary Life. Through this Oneness, he comes to understand and know from his own experience the true meaning of what the Universal Fraternity really is.

Since the origins of humanity, man has been building the Antakarana unconsciously through the multiple experiences on the physical level, especially through the mistakes, sacrifices and renunciations in which he has been immersed, by having that bend and correctly channel emotions, desires and physical senses. Without realizing it, he has been gradually creating and building the Sutratma or Internal Bridge of Iridescent Light, which has made possible the contact with his own Soul, with the Universal Soul and with the Soul of all Beings .

When man has reached a certain degree of spiritual integration, when he comes to discover that he is an Immortal Spirit, he then recognizes that only through meditation, he can accelerate the process of construction of the Antakarana and therefore of union with his Soul . In the meditative process he models and builds that Bridge of light, which, like the umbilical cord of a newborn, links the Lower Triad (concrete mind, astral body and physical-etheric body), with the Upper Triad (atma, buddhi, and manas -abstractly-), making it possible for man to wake up to Spiritual Reality.

One of the Masters refers to meditation, that… ” Through Raja-Yoga, the Mind is known as the instrument of the Soul and the means by which the brain of the Aspirant is illuminated, thus acquiring the Knowledge of everything that concerns to the Kingdom of the Spirit . ”

Through meditation, abstraction, the purification of his kama-manasic mechanism (thoughts-emotions-desires) and also the practice of impersonality, the full confidence he places in himself and the total conviction that The steps he is taking are the right ones, the Path Applicant, after an arduous and hard training that can last several stocks, achieves his goal.

Starting from the premise that Self Control, the practice of Impersonality and Altruistic Service, are essential and previous elements for this conscious approach of the personality towards the Higher Self, meditation becomes the tool and key element for the rapid execution of this happy and transcendent encounter of the human with the divine. The fact of this internal recognition in the life of any being, positively and tangibly marks its present and future evolutionary projection.

From the results that derive from the construction of the Antakarana in the consciousness of the human being, some important considerations can be extracted if we look at them from a double perspective, the personal and the group.

Within the personal or individual aspect, the alignment and contact of the Soul with the personality (in the evolutionary beginnings of consciousness), are infrequent, sporadic and imprecise, hardly recognized by man in the waking state that he is only able to register and to respond to the slow and grotesque vibrations of the physical senses. The few contacts with his Soul are only detected by the personality in moments of intense aspiration, of internal recollection and also during the various phases of crisis that take place in his life.

The Soul, through these sporadic contacts, slowly and effectively creates the connection of a dim light, which in the form of a subtle and transparent thread, illuminates and transmits its presence with increasing intensity and frequency to the personality, beginning to have access to those states or levels of consciousness where Knowledge and Wisdom resides and emerges, enabling you to fulfill your Universal Service Work with greater precision and efficiency.

It is precisely, through the practice of service towards all beings and meditation, that this Path of Light is widening and expanding more and more, reaching to illuminate the personality more and more intensely, achieving at a certain moment, becoming so broad and encompassing this bridge of light, that the magnetic aura projected by all its vehicles, becomes the living reflection and expression of the Soul, to such an extent, that they form a solid and active Causal Reality .

The Soul comes to live, to breathe and to express itself fully through all the atoms, molecules and cells of each of the vehicles of the triple personality. Alignment Soul, mind and brain work in unison, as a single unit of consciousness. The human being, in this final stage of his existence, becomes a Master of Perfection, Compassion and Wisdom.

The gradual concretion of the Antakarana, triggers the purification of the vehicles of expression of the personality, as well as the manifestation of the qualities and potentialities of the Soul, which are increasingly going to manifest themselves tangibly in the aspirant. In this way, the negative energy elements that have been present in the periodic vehicles are detached, being attracted and replaced by other more subtle and highly vibrant energy elements.

This process of energy transfer and exchange is possible, by the invocation that in the form of a powerful spiritual aspiration the aspirant makes towards his Soul, giving rise to that, in turn, this, respond to the personality in the form of archetypes, qualities and energies, using the Antakarana as a means of communication and interrelation.

This process of purification and integral unification, gives rise to an alignment and energy synchronism of the Lower Vehicles (physical-ethereal, astral and mental), with the Higher Self, generating in all of them a global alchemical transmutation. In this magical process of transformation, imperfections that could exist in the form of vices, habits and personality deficiencies, are replaced by the innate virtues and potentialities of the Soul. This fact gives rise to the restitution of the Higher in the Lower and the expansion of the Causal Aura of the Ego. As a result of all this internal process, vehicles acquire a special degree of sensitivity and perception, being able to feel and respond to any type of energy in the environment where it evolves and relates, especially with the beings to which it is karmatically united.

The increasingly intense and conscious union of man with his Higher Self makes Buddhi transmit the brain to personality, Love, Intuition and Wisdom, with a broad perspective on the Transcendent Reality of the most subtle planes of reality.

Antakarana also makes it possible to obtain a greater degree of awareness about these subtle and invisible worlds, where those universal laws that are the will and expression of the Evolutionary Plan of the Logos are generated and distributed to the lower planes. It is, at these levels of reality, where the great interpreters and filmmakers of this Great Plan, the Planetary Hierarchy and the high civic or angelic entities, in collaboration with the human beings, materialize in different planes, the evolutionary designs of the Planetary Logos.

This situation of high spiritual content that takes place in the aspirant, as a result of the ever deeper meditation and abstraction towards the higher planes, makes the great Archetypes accessible to consciousness, the Patterns on which the most important universal changes that encompass, to the beings and consciences of all kingdoms, but especially to the Human Kingdom, are to be developed.

Man comes to feel, to see and understand that Truth that is behind these Archetypes or Model Representations. To observe internally what they are and what they express, either as tangible symbols of a well defined Logoic intention, or also as a result of the confluence and condensation of energies and forces put into perfect harmonic activity by the Divine to carry out His Evolutionary Project at all levels of His Multidimensional Creation.

So far we have contemplated some of the most important internal aspects that take place in the person who has voluntarily and freely decided to make the necessary efforts to achieve this integral transformation and thus be more Useful to others. Next we will try to briefly describe the consequences that are derived at the group level and in relation to those beings with whom the aspirant evolves, his family, social environment, etc.

Undoubtedly, the construction of the Antakarana and the approach to the Higher Self brings, in turn, a greater degree of responsibility, especially towards the family, wife and children, who are the ones that most effectively should benefit, to express it in some way, of mutual relationship and auric-energetic contact. As a result of this internal coexistence and relationship, the whole family group, as a harmonious and homogeneous whole, rises to a higher level of integration, stability and spiritual harmony.

Another group that is also involved in this auric synchronization and harmonization is that of the spiritual brothers with whom it is internally and externally united and with those who actively contribute to the Group and World Service. This singularity and transcendent sympathy, gives rise to the creation of that atmosphere of harmony and harmony that is desirable to achieve in any Internal Group, so necessary for any type of spiritual activity to develop normally. If all the components of the Group are individually and collectively in similar conditions of relationship with their Higher Self, then the subjective and objective work that will be carried out in any of the Levels of Reality will be effective and lasting.

In this same situation are the rest of relatives, friends and people who make up their social circle with those who live and with whom they are in contact for a certain time. Somehow, the proximity and personal contact with these beings must have an impact on their personalities and on their vehicles of periodic manifestation, giving them an attractive, sympathetic and active spiritual impulse.

The fact of living this Global Unification process more and more intensely makes man increasingly aware of his fulfillment of karmic commitments, originated and enshrined in previous existences, impelling him to assume the realization of his Dharma, of his Duty. towards himself and others, to the extent possible, to consciously collaborate in some way to the evolution, moral, scientific, religious and spiritual aggrandizement of his city, his country and the World.

As a summary, it could be added that the Antakarana, also brings out in the being, the sensitivity to the currents of the New Energies and Archetypes that begin to circulate around the World and that are the announcement and prelude of the New Age of Aquarius, of these new models of society and new and transcendent relationships that are to occur between all kingdoms and all beings.

The Antakarana, in short, makes the aspirant understand that his mind should not be limited only to the immediate world where he lives, but that he must possess that quality of penetration and synthesis, of a broad spectrum, capable of slowly and very subtly capturing any situation, giving it that wise assimilation and internal recognition that makes it distinguish the True from the False, the Real from the Unreal, the Discernment, so necessary to carry out any work of Universal Service.

The Antakarana is the Bridge of Light,

that leads Man to the Path,

towards the Eternal Presence of the Infinite.

(Anonymous)

Alfonso of the Rosary

(14.11.2011)

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