Lightning evolution

Imagine being hit by lightning.

Your physical body

cannot handle 

the mega-amperes of

electric current and

it burns up.

Now imagine that, 

somehow, say through 

kundalini practices and awakening,

you become physically able 

to handle the titanic surge
of electromagnetic energy. 

Your brain changes as well and 

intellectual,

artistic, and 

emotional 

insights and abilities

open up.

Now you may go around 

searching for 

lightning strikes or 

similar high-power phenomena 

to evolve.

This is lightning evolution by

outside or outer circumstances.

 

Now imagine 

an energetic inner counterpart to 

natural lightning in the sky. 

Those strikes may again be picked up 

after sufficient kundalini practices and 

again change you 

physically and mentally.

This is lightning evolution by

inside or inner circumstances.

 

Imagine now 

a pre-energetic aspect 

to the inner lightning strikes. 

They can be picked up 

internally but mentally, 

when one's attention is 

sufficiently

expansive,

subtle, and 

swift.

 

This subtilization happens

by meditating

on something

infinite and

incredibly dynamic,

even swifter than

mental lightning!

Here, 

even without practices 

to change the body

physiologically or

energetically, 

one is able to 

catch lightning strikes

mentally.

 

Catching mental, 

non-physical,

yet material lightning strikes

can still cause changes in the 

energetic and 

physical layers or 

kośas (prāṇamaya and

annamaya).

 

Next consider

inner lightning 

--a time-bound event-- 

as a grosser manifestation of 

inner sunshine 

--eternally bright.

 

What level of inner subtlety 

would be needed 

to sustain that 

continuous brightness?

And finally, imagine 

a potentiality, 

a nothingness, 

from which 

that sunshine, 

and in turn, 

that lightning 

arises. 

 

Not darkness, 

but greyness, 

black with just a faint hint 

of brightness.

 

What would be the 

mental or

intellectual level 

needed 

to feel and 

understand 

that?

In sum, one sequence of evolution is the ability to withstand or apprehend:

1. physical lightning
2. psychic lightning
3. mental lightning
4. mental sunshine
5. mental potentiality/nothingness
   

Starting from 5. should develop capacity to withstand 4-3. Perhaps it also develops capacity to withstand 4-1, too?

NOTES

 

1. Lightning and sunshine analogy inspired by (but inverted from!) Sri Aurobindo's  Levels of Mind/Consciousness. C.f. Fig.2. The Vertical System - Levels of Consciousness and later explanations in the online Our Many Selves - Practical Yogic Psychology

 

2. "Darkness to light, light to grey" is from Babuji.  He may have been referring to wisdom as light, and omniscience as potential which manifests into actual wisdom as needed.

3. Consider also Babuji's increasingly subtle sequence of matter to energy to absolute, and the increasingly grosser sequence of manasa-vāca-karmaṇa (thought-word-action).