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Then there is Mahat and the universal sense corresponding to
it. This sense takes man out of the limits of personality; it raises
him to the level of spiritual life. It developes unselfishness and uni-
versal life.
Last of all is the eighth principle, Mula Prakrit!. It gives the
sense of perceiving Atma.
Krishna helps the evolution of the Jivas, by developing the outer
senses first and then the inner senses.
When the first six senses are developed, the evolution of person-
ality is complete. The powers that develop the senses do not come any
more into requisition. Those powers were the first six brothers of
Krishna, who lay slumbering in the ocean, and who were ardha-
garbha, as Harivansa says. Their action was confined to the material
stage of evolution and hence they are said to have descended from
Hiranya Kasipu. Kansa had no difficulty in slaying these half-dead
powers.
The sixth brother was Balarama. He was robed in blue, a
highly spiritual color, the color of Mahat. He roused the spiritual
sense of man. Jivas had wandered away from their spiritual home,
where they were all united, and each had made a separate entity for
himself. Balarama tried to draw them together once more on the
plane of Mahat. Hence he was called Sankarshana, and his instru-
ment was called the plough. He was the first born, as men cannot
come face to face with Isvara, so long as they are not raised beyond
the limits of personality. Jivas streamed forth from the plane of
Mahat, presided over by Atlanta or Sankarshana, and they are drawn
back to that plane so that they may set out on a higher spiritual
journey.
Then came Sri Krishna and Yogamaya, both together. Sri
Krishna was the highest of the high, beyond the Maya that enshrouded
the Brahmanda. How could he come in contact with the Jivas of
Brahmanda? The only plane of Prakriti with which He could come
in direct contact was the plane of Mula Prakriti. But this plane was
not developed in humanity as yet. Therefore He asked Yoga
Maya, the energy of Jivic evolution, who carries Jiva from the lowest
to the highest point, to serve as a medium between Him and the
Jivas. Sri Krishna performed His mission with the help of Yoga
Maya. The Gopis met Sri Krishna because they worshipped
Yoga Maya (Katyayani). Sri Krishna had personal contact with
the Gopis at Rasa, because He invoked Yoga Maya at the time and
got her help. Yoga Maya is the highest sense of which Jiva is cap-
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