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A Secret Explained – Part-1

ALL WERE INSTRUCTED TO CLOSE THEIR EYES FOR A SHORT TIME; AFTER THREE OR FOUR MINUTES HAD PASSED, THEY WERE ORDERED TO OPEN THEIR EYES AGAIN. ASKED WHAT THEY HAD EXPERIENCED, SOME SAID THAT THEY HAD AT FIRST SEEN ONLY DARKNESS, BUT THEN OUT OF THAT DARKNESS SMALL CIRCLES OF LIGHT APPEARED: AND IN THE END, ONLY ONE CIRCLE REMAINED. THEREUPON SHRI [BABA] EXPLAINED:

All of you closed your eyes. Now, when your eyes were closed, who was it that actually saw these circles of light and the rest of it, as you have just related? It was your mind that saw all of this through your subtle eye, even though your gross eye was closed, that is, even though you were looking into darkness. Now, this seeing of circles constitutes a step on the path towards seeing the Almighty, who is the Eternal Light.  At first you see circles, then colors, then “skies,”* until at last you see the very Fountain of Light, Truth Itself—the winning of which is the aim, object, and intention of everyone. If you could see all these things—the circles, colors, skies, and so forth—with your eyes open, then you could be said to have developed the powers of your subtle eye. Many of you and many others in the world must have closed your eyes from time to time with an intention of seeing something, but has this explanation, as I have just given it, ever occurred to you or anyone else? None the “Really Experienced Ones” has ever explained this to you in such clear terms, although to us, who have not only seen but actually become one with the Eternal Light, this business of seeing circles and colors and so forth is only too trivial. This light that you see with your subtle eye is the sixth shadow of that real and original Light which pervades the whole universe. The subtle eye itself takes the shape of a circle of light with a spot in its center.

*During this period Baba seems to have used the English words “skies” and “heavens” as equivalents of asmans.

– “Meher Baba’s Tiffin lectures”, p295
23-November-1926; Meherabad


A Secret Explained – Part-2 (Final)


IN JUST THE SAME WAY, SHRI PROCEEDED TO GIVE HIS MANDALI THE EXPERIENCE OF INNER HEARING, TOGETHER WITH AN EXPLANATION. FIRST, HE ORDERED ALL OF THEM TIGHTLY TO SEAL OFF THEIR EARS FOR THREE OR FOUR MINUTES; AND THEN HE ASKED EACH ONE WHAT HAD BEEN HIS EXPERIENCE. THEY REPLIED THAT AT FIRST SILENCE PREVAILED; BUT SUBSEQUENTLY THEY HEARD DISTANT SOUNDS AS OF ROLLING THUNDERCLOUDS OR A MOVING TRAIN. AFTER THAT, THEY HEARD SOUNDS FAR OFF LIKE TRAIN WHISTLES. AGAIN SHRI EXPLAINED:

Since your ears were tightly sealed off from outer sound, who heard these things? Again, it was this same mind that heard through your subtle ear. These sounds were the sixth shadow of the real and original Sound*.  If you were to proceed and progress onwards, developing this new hearing faculty of yours further, you would begin to hear pleasing musical notes (nods), as are heard on the planes of consciousness.

ELABORATING FURTHER ON SOME OF THESE DETAILS, SHRI GAVE THE FIGURE OF THREE CURTAINS, ONE GROSS, ONE SUBTLE, AND ONE OF THE MIND, THAT INTERVENE BETWEEN YOU (ORDINARY MAN) AND THE REAL TRUTH (OR PARAMATMA):

If you throw aside the first of these, the curtain of the gross, you have then to act through the medium of the subtle, which, when thrown aside and given up, leaves you with no recourse except to act through the mind alone. And when you throw aside and finally give up this mind of yours, then you become one with Paramatma. Now, suppose one progresses by means of seeing through the gross, the subtle, and the mind, crossing each of these domains and giving up all three. In the end one attains the Sat-Chit-Anand state. But before this, while still experiencing the sphere of mind, one sees the Fountain of Light. Experiencing its charm and realizing its greatness and power, one tries to move towards it; that is to say, until now the pilgrim has only seen, but now he wants to actually proceed towards the Goal. But only a very, very few actually succeed in becoming one with that everlasting Light, Existence, Knowledge, and Truth! It is almost impossible to become the Personification of Truth, though a few lucky ones do manage to reach up as far as the mental sphere. Only a few rare virlas (heroes) unite with the Sat-Chit-Anand Rup or State, becoming realized through a Sadguru’ s grace.

– “Meher Baba’s Tiffin lectures”, p295
23-November-1926; Meherabad

* In Hinduism this Primal Sound is sometimes call the Brahma Naad.  Meher Baba discusses the Primal Sound or original Word of God in a statement by Francis Brabazon  in Stay with God’ : A statement in Illusion on Reality.