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Prakrit! and becomes manifold in its manifestations. The hard
mineral matter does not admit the mineral life to be expressed in
any other way than by a fixed form. The more plastic vegetable
matter shews vegetable life in all the activities of life and growth.
Subtler matter appears in the animals and makes the sensing of the
object world possible. Even sublter matter becomes the basis of
brain activities. The Prakritic basis of the mind is two-fold in its
character Ahankara and Mahat. When the mind is capable of
thinking only from the standpoint of one life and one birth only, it
is limited by Ahankara matter. When that limit is overcome,
mind is on the plane of Mahat. Individuality is not lost, but the
individual has consciousness of all births, /'. e. consciousness on
the plane of the universe. Such consciousness does not normally
exist in Triloki. When a man becomes normally conscious on the
plane of Mahat, he is carried to Mahar Loka and becomes a Rishi.
Bhrigu is such a Rishi. The acquirement of such consciousness is
the object of life evolution in our solar system. When the solar
system is destroyed, it is the Manasic consciousness that alone
survives. The three Lokas BhOr, Bhuvar and Svar are destroyed,
The Prakritic forms and states of these three Lokas become destroy-
ed and the different states of consciousness corresponding to those
forms and states finally disappear. The harvest of Manasic evolu-
tion, which is the only harvest reaped by means of one solar system
is stored in Mahar Loka. But when the three lower Lokas are des-
troyed, the flames of dissolution reach even Mahar Loka and all the
gains of a Kalpa's evolution are transferred to the higher plane of Jana
Loka. This is therefore the highest plane of our consciousness. The
highest evolved beings of the previous solar system could not after Pra-
laya go beyond Jana Loka, and their consciousness was the conscious-
ness of Jana Loka. When our earth was formed and when they came
down in time for further evolution, they brought down their highest
consciousness with them as a possibility, for it was obscured in their
entrance to Triloki. As the soul gathers spiritual strength in Svarga
Loka after death, so the disembodied soul after Prayala gathers
spiritual strength in Jana Loka or the Loka of Kumaras. " When
the three Lokas are consumed by fire from the mouth of Sankar-
shana, afflicted by the heat, Bhrigu and others go to Jana Loka"
?? I1I-II-XXX. The Lord of Yoga goes by means of Sushumna
through the radiant path in his subtle body and at last reaches
Mahar Loka, where Bhrigu and other Rishis who live for one Kalpa
remain. " Then seeing the Triloki consumed by fire from the mouth
of Ananta he goes towards that supreme abode, which is adorned by
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