beyond THIS WORLDBeyondour world, there are many different worlds. Each level is a worldin itself, and it represents our level of understanding. It'sjust like when we go into a university. Each grade, as we go throughthe university, represents our understanding more about the university'steaching, and then we slowly move toward graduation. In the astralworld, we will see many kinds of so-called miracles. We can healthe sick. We can sometimes see something that other people cannotsee. We have at least six kinds of miraculous powers. We can seebeyond the ordinary boundary, we can hear beyond the limits ofspace. The distance doesn't make a difference to us. That's whatwe call the heavenly ears and the heavenly eyes. We can also seethrough people's thinking, what they have in their mind, etc.These are the powers that sometimes we acquire when we have accessto the first level of the Kingdom of God.
Now, if we go a little bit beyond this levelto what we call the second world, just for the sake of simplifyingmatters, then we will probably have a lot more abilities thanthe first one, including miracles. But the most striking achievementwe can have at the second level is that of eloquence of speechand the ability to debate. No one seems to be able to conquera person who has achieved the second level because he has tremendouspower of eloquence, and his intellect is at the peak of his power.
Most of the people who have an ordinary mindor very simple IQ cannot match this person because his IQ hasopened to a very high degree. It is not only the physical brainthat has been developed more, it is the mystical power, it isthe heavenly power, the wisdom that is inherent inside us. Nowit begins to open. In India, people call this level 'Buddhi,'which means intellectual level. When you achieve 'Buddhi', youbecome a Buddha.
That's where the word Buddha came from. TheBuddha is precisely just that. It's not finished. There is morethan that. Most people call an enlightened person a Buddha. Ifhe doesn't know beyond the second level, he would probably feelvery proud about it. Yes, thinking that he is a living Buddhaand his disciples would be very proud calling him Buddha. Butactually if he only achieves the second level in which he cansee through the past, present and future of any person he choosesto see, and in which he has an absolute eloquence of speech, thenit's not yet the end of the Kingdom of God.
Every so-called miracle would happen to us,whether we want it or not, because our intellect just opened andjust knows how to contact the higher source of healing, of arrangingeverything so that our life would become smoother and better.
The so-called third world is a higher step.The one who goes to the third world has to be absolutely cleanof every debt of this world, at least. If we owe something tothe king of this physical world, we cannot go up. Just like ifyou are a criminal of some nation and your record is not clear,you cannot pass beyond the border to go to another nation. So,the debt of this world includes many things that we've done inthe past, and in the present, and maybe in the future days ofour physical life. Now all these have to be cleared, the so-calledkarma.
Now, suppose you have passed the third world,what next? Of course, you go to the next higher level, the fourth.The fourth world is already out of extraordinary. We cannot justuse the simple language to describe all these things to the layperson for fear of offending the Lord of that world. Because thatworld is so beautiful even though there are some parts of it thatare very dark, darker than on a black-out night in New York. Beforeyou reach the light, it's darker than that. It's kind of a forbiddencity.
Before we reach God's knowledge, we are stoppedover there. But with a Master, with an experienced Master, youcan pass through. Otherwise, we cannot find the road in that kindof world.
When we reached different levels, or planesof existence, we have experienced not only spiritual changes,but physical and intellectual changes with everything else inour life. We look at life in a different manner, we walk differently,we work differently. Even our daily work takes on a differentmeaning, and we understand why we work this way, why we have tobe in this job, or why we should change this job. We understandour purpose of life, so we no longer feel restless and agitated.But we wait very harmoniously, patiently for our mission on earthto finish, because we know where we are going next. We know whilewe are living.
So after that you go to a higher level. Afterthe fourth, you go to the next higher level. The house of theMaster which is the fifth level. All the Masters came from there.Even though their levels are higher than the fifth, they staythere. It is the residence of the Master. Beyond that, there aremany aspects of God, which are difficult to understand. Afterthe fifth, you can go anywhere you want.
There are many more levels upward, but it ismore comfortable, more neutral to stay there. It is too powerful,further upward. You can go for awhile, but maybe you wouldn'tlike to rest there.
There are many aspects of God that we couldnot imagine. We always imagine the higher we go, the more loving.But there are different kinds of love. There is violent love,strong love, mild love, neutral love. So it depends on how muchwe can bear, God will give us different degrees of love from God.But sometimes it is strong, we feel we are torn into ribbons.
