God is beyond material, psychic and celestial phenomena
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| Swami Prakashanand Saraswati teaches that devotion to God is beyond all psychic and material phenomena |
Your body, the world you live in, your mental experiences – what are they? They are all material existences. You see a dream. What is that? A stage of your mind. Some people can see while they are sitting with closed eyes. What is that? They call it samadhi, a psychic experience.
There are two kinds of light: psychic and material. When you see a dream, do you see light? Some might say no, but how could you see the dream if there were no light? When you are seeing a dream, light is there. It is illogical to say there is no light while you are seeing a dream. So in a dream, whatever is here that you could see when you are conscious, is also there. You have subtle senses that perceive the subtle world, and physical senses that perceive the physical world. They are all material phenomena. They have no concern with God. God is entirely different from this existence. Although He is absorbed in these existences, you cannot find Him. Although He is omnipresent, He has no concern with these material existences. He is beyond them.
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| Devotional chanting with Swami Prakashanand Saraswati |
For this reason, if your path of meditation is only related to the psychic phenomena, that can lead you only a few steps ahead in your psychic development; it can never lead to God because God is beyond material phenomena, beyond psychic phenomena, beyond celestial phenomena. There are three phenomena: material, psychic, and celestial. Beyond these is the abode of God.
(Text and graphics used with permission from Swami Prakashanand Saraswati @ 2002-2009. All rights reserved.)