THE RAINBOW BRIDGE - ANTAHKARANA
THE RAINBOW BRIDGE - ANTAHKARANA
There is the material world and the spiritual. Between lies the universal mind which is also the universal heart. It is wise love that makes the two one. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
The Rainbow Bridge or antahkarana, as it is also known, exists for the purpose of bridging the mundane to the spiritual. It does this through three channels: A life thread or direct link between our spiritual and physical being; a consciousness thread linking the soul to the mind; and a creative thread which extends the spiritual axis outwards into daily living. If the life and consciousness threads are thought of as the rails of a ladder, the creative thread can be seen as the rungs. These rungs link two independent rails into a fully functioning whole down which spiritual truth may descend and the aspirants of the world may climb up. Consequently, the Rainbow Bridge is responsible for conditioning human existence in line with divine purpose and plan. In other words the two most important commandments, to love God and to love humanity, rely entirely on the construction of the Rainbow Bridge.
The antahkarana is a Sanskrit term. Translated literally it means that which acts or works between ‘Antar’, meaning between or intermediate, and ‘karana’, the present participle of ‘kri’, to do. The implication is that the antahkarana is the string making God’s puppet dance. However, there is a general consensus that this is not always the meaning that ought to be inferred. The celebrated yogi, B.K.S. Iyengar, defines the antahkarana as the conscience, the being with knowledge. The first interpretation allows no place for the free agency of the human spirit. The second allows for both awareness and action by the personality within the context of an overarching spirituality.
The Rainbow Bridge derives its name from the fusion of all the colours of the seven Rays, the archetypal universal energies that are wielded and mastered by the pilgrim upon the eternal Path of Life. This connecting bridge eventually brings about right relationship to all spheres of planetary Life: the natural, the human and the divine. Like a spider that builds its gossamer web, so we, too, weave the connecting threads out of our own being that link the outer and inner worlds to eventually reveal “a promised land of beauty, love and future vision.”Such an inclusive sensitivity enables us to respond to the unfolding Plan of God with skill in action. From a human perspective, weaving the Rainbow Bridge, through meditation, nurtures a purposeful loving rapport to God and to our neighbours. The practice of focused lighted thought or meditation results in the alignment or the unimpeded relationship between soul and personality. The Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, calls this state “seeing deeply”. When we see with the eye of the soul, all is light. We can see the interconnectedness of all the lives that surround us. In the Ageless Wisdom teachings, we are reminded that, before we can tread the spiritual Path, we must become the Path itself. Step by step, and stage by stage, throughout the millennia, each human soul draws out of his or her being the radiant rainbow bridge, which connects us to the one universal Fount of Life. The path is an ever progressive inward movement in consciousness, from the periphery of the outer worlds to the inner causal realms, liberating us from the imprisonment of matter, and releasing us into the “freedom of the heavens”.
Today there are a growing number of spiritual servers who are contributing collectively to the fusion of the many radiant strands that make up the connecting cables relating the human and spiritual worlds. We are reminded in the Old Testament of the vision of Jacob who, whilst asleep, dreamt of a ladder stretching from heaven to earth upon which the angels of God were able to descend and ascend. Each time we link up in our triangles we, too, are building Jacob’s Ladder, the planetary Rainbow Bridge, so that at the destined time “the weight of the Will of God may progress from point to point, from sphere to sphere and from glory to glory” (adapted).
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