Extrapolating the Unknown: A Unified View on Spirituality

Copyright © 2017 by M V K Mohan.

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Contents

Introduction

The Law of Correspondence

The Law Illustrated by More Examples

Extrapolating Upwards and Downwards

The Phenomenon of Alternating Virtual Reality

The Phenomenon of Multiple Life Forms in the Same System

Is It Possible to Have a Level 1.5?

Life Defined

Life Defined from a Higher Viewpoint

Life Defined from the Same-Level Viewpoint

Are Countries Living Things? What about Rivers and Mountains?

How to Find Out If a System Is Living

The Law As It Is Applied to the Physical Plane

The Law As Applied to the Mental Plane

Understanding the Mind by Understanding the World

The Commonality in All Levels

Correspondence Between Dreams and Our Real World

Correspondence Between Diseases and the Mental Plane

The Law as It Is Applied to the Spiritual Plane

Our Relationship to God

What Is Death? What Happens When We Die?

Our Own Death Is Not Possible

Is Rebirth Possible?

Do Ghosts Exist?

What Is Time? Is It Absolute or Relative? How Is It Created?

Parallel Universes, Different Time Speeds

How Would God Look Upon Us or Feel About Us?

Corollary 1: Even God Has Problems Managing Us!

Corollary 2: God Really Does Not Care for Each One of Us as Long as the Theme Is Continuing

Corollary 3: God Will Be Aware of Us Only if Forced To

Attracting God’s Attention

What Is My Dharma (My Duty, My Calling)?

Fate and Self-Effort

What Is My Karma (fate)?

Why Are These Things Happening to Me? How Do I Change Them?

Why Is Desire So Good?

Energy Flow Is the Most Enjoyable Thing

Why Do We Need New Movies Every Year? Why Is Stereo Sound So Good?

Why Do We Laugh? Why Are Jokes Funny?

Male and Female Energies

The Law as Applied to Meditation

Why and How Meditation Works

What Is Meditation?

Magnetism and Magnetic Personalities

What Is It That We Are Really After? How Do We Get It? Mantra Chanting

How to Meditate

The Law Applied to Moksha, or Enlightenment

What Is Moksha?

What Is Enlightenment?

How Do We Achieve It?

Methodology of Shaktipath, Kundalini Yoga, and Similar Traditions

Renunciation

Applying All of This Theory

Some Miscellaneous Topics

How the Universe Was Made

Is It Right to Kill Others? Is It Ever Justifiable?

Is It Right to Kill Ourselves?

Is the Majority Always Right?

Unanswered Questions

Bibliography

Introduction

The ideas in this book have been within me for a long time, but I did not put them in writing as I always felt that there was something missing. However, as the concepts are so profound, I felt that to wait for perfection may be futile. And even if I did fully understand the concepts one day, I am not sure I would be able write from the same level of awareness at that time that I am in right now. Who knows? I might not feel the need for writing the obvious.

I was always struck by the way difficult concepts are so often explained by examples in seemingly unrelated fields. The only caution authors often give is that we should not extend the example too much. One day I came across the hermetic law that formally declares that similarities are the order in the world. I started to look for places or phenomena in which it does not exist, but I could see only more and more proof that it does exist. The Law of Correspondence, like the Law of Energy, cannot be proved; it can only be illustrated that it always exists. The law, when applied, states that the level seen above and the level unseen below are the same phenomenon or processes. I applied it further. If you want to see how one level above us would look, or one level below, observe whichever level we can observe and extrapolate what happens at the other level.

Then I started thinking about the practical use of this theory. Would the Law of Correspondence make our lives better in any way? How do we make use of this principle? Once we accept its existence, it could be used as a tool to probe concepts that cannot be experienced or understood. For example, is there a god? If there is, how does this god feel? Why is he seemingly partial to a few? How do we define life? Am I living or are my cells are living—or both? Is life continuous or discrete? Can this law be used to improve our health? What is meditation, and why and how must we meditate? Will taking a different view of life, a different view of God, help us in any way? How do we make life better for ourselves, for society? Some ideas emerged.

Then my thoughts went to abstract concepts like nirvana. What I had read was all theory, and I was able to get an intellectual feel for it. If a thorough understanding could lead us to nirvana, the next question anyone would ask is, then why don’t you check it out yourself before you come out with the book? As I said before, maybe then I would not ever write the book.

Maybe none of the thoughts mentioned here are new to the world; maybe someone somewhere has already elaborated upon them in a better manner. After all, the law is not new, I am only elaborating on it. But the application of the principles and the topics presented here are my own.

Along the way many doubts emerged whether I was stretching the concepts too much. Maybe the law can be applied only to a few situations, though nowhere did I see any conditions attached to the law. I have introduced a section in the last for unanswered questions on correspondence. The list is changing even as I write the book; maybe others can resolve or comment on those later.

These concepts are found in books written in the previous century and even by current spiritual leaders. For example, in a book by Geoffrey Hodson,1986 in Meditations on the Occult Life, writes:

Life at any point or in any part of the solar system, is an epitome of the whole. The evolution of the group consciousness of mineral, plant, animal, and nature-spirit into angelhood and of animal into humanity is a microcosmic reflection of a macrocosmic achievement …. In the study of the spiritual, this principle should be applied. Without it all knowledge is as the shell which hides the kernel of the fruit of the tree of life. Therefore, the occult student should meditate upon unity until a measure of experience of the whole has been attained. From experience of the interior essential fact, he may then proceed to study with comprehension the external and relatively unessential parts of the whole. True interpretation demands synthetic thought based upon the understanding of the whole …. In the darkness of universal night the solar worlds are born. In the darkness of the earth, the germination of the seed occurs and plants are born. In the darkness of a mother’s womb the body of a child is formed. From absolute darkness, suns, globes, plants and men emerge into the light. ….

…That principle which was the flower in the plant is expressed as the head of the animal, that which was the roots is now symbolized by the feet – still attached to earth, but mobile…. The head of the animal thrust forth from the body reflects in microcosmic form the existence of extra-systemic consciousness and life. It corresponds to the apex of the pyramid, the valve through which the life which is beyond is enabled to reach the life already within…

…Non-manifestation is the higher essence of existence and is in no sense separate from the manifest…..This is true of all kingdoms of life.

In this book he also quotes books by Dr. Annie Besant. He writes that the macrocosm and the microcosm exhibit the same properties. He also says in another chapter that crystals are forms of life in the mineral world.

Taken with other Vedic statements like Purnamidam Purnascha, which means that the part is nothing but the whole, this hermetic law seems to have a sound base. Similarly the vedic statement "Yatha Pinde Thata Brahmande, which means that, as is the atom, so is the universe. After all, if we are a part of the whole, then would we not have the same properties of the whole and vice versa?

Aditya Hridayam, is a hymn for invoking the sun god. This can be seen from three different planes. One plane is that sun is a god, and he gives us everything we know. Second is that there is a higher god, and he is seen through the sun, thus sun is just a portal through which all other gods like Shiva, Vishnu, and Devi shine. The third plane is that whatever is shining in the sun god is also shining through me; in essence, I am made up of the same stuff as the sun god.

The theory of the chakras, the energy centres in the body is well known. There are seven chakras in the human body. The Muladhara (the chakra situated at the base of the spine) is the chakra of memory, egoism, materialism, and dominance. The next chakra is Svadhishtana (the chakra situated just below the navel), and it deals with reason and intellect. The next chakra is Manipura (the chakra at the solar plexus). This chakra can direct human will either to the lower chakras of ego, reasoning, and dominance, or to the higher chakras of the heart. The next chakra is of the Anahata (chakra situated at the heart level) and awakens love and intuition. Intuition is not against reason, but only much quicker in arriving at the same result. It seems the human lives in the first chakra from birth till seven years of age. During this time the child strives to control and know his or her body and know which things to go after and which to be afraid of. Between seven fourteen years of age, the child is keen to know the what and the why of everything; he or she strives to reason out everything. Next, as a teenager, the child asserts his or her will and does not listen to anyone else. If the person progresses after this, over the next seven years, though cognizant of the above things, he or she develops a tolerance and understanding of society and loves nature in general. My point in mentioning this is not to give a lecture on the chakras, but to point out correspondence at various levels. There are seven chakras and there are seven tones in the musical scale. It is said that each tone activates a particular chakra and certain songs which concentrate on particular notes have the capacity to affect us because the note affects the chakra and hence our emotions. Similarly, there are seven colours in the rainbow, memorized as VIBGYOR. Each colour is also associated with each chakra and is supposed to affect our moods by affecting the chakra. What is most interesting is the similarity with the evolution of society. In the beginning, we find members of society trying to overcome fears and obsessed with the basic instincts, trying to dominate nature and other tribes. This corresponds to the Muladhara chakra, the first in the evolution of mankind. Then comes the age of the Greeks who asserted reason, ordering and categorizing knowledge with debates. This corresponds to the Svadishtana chakra. Next a society develops a will and developed science, weapons, and countries. It is believed that, in the present time, nations are more or less built, and we are in the age corresponding to the anahata or universal love. We understand war and other such things, but someone comes along and brokers peace. So the development of humanity is shown to follow what is inherent in the structure of humanity, thus proving again that what is inside is what is outside. From my observation, newly formed countries behave like toddlers; they are driven by animal instincts and are afraid of everything. Teenage countries behave like teenagers do, wanting to control everything and everybody; they are prepared for a fight anytime. Older countries have a huge tolerance for everything. The animals live amongst the people, almost anything is tolerated. It is like an old man who has seen everything and who wonders about the point of it all.

Though we keep seeing examples of the law in daily life, great thinkers who used this principle gave a boost to my confidence about my book. In fact, many people apply this law without even questioning its validity because it is so deeply ingrained into our thinking.

The assumptions we make about our environment, life and ourselves are tested only by a few extreme cases. It is these extreme cases we need to investigate to gain the correct knowledge. Even today, for most cases, we can go with the assumption that the earth is flat. The way people started questioning this belief is interesting. There was one case which could not be answered by the assumption of a flat earth. When we look at an approaching ship from the shore, the mast is seen first, then the bottom part of the ship. If the earth was flat, we should have seen the whole ship at once is it not? This and other such cases led to questioning the belief of a flat earth and even calculated the radius of the earth only by extrapolation. Similarly, if we know