CHAPTER V
DEGREE OF CONSCIENCE
In what consists, truly, the degree of conscience?
The human being is constituted, as we saw, for several bodies inhabited by the Superior Conscience. The degree of physical conscience depends on how much of that Conscience the person lets to flow through their two dynamic bodies emotional and mental - bodies those that establish the width of our conscious physical life.
In its turn, the amount of that Superior Principle that gets to flow depends on the degree of balance of the several vehicles.
Consequently, degree of conscience is a relative value that depends on the measure of several factors that vary in agreement with each individual. In the dependence of the current composition of the vehicles and of the psychic balance, we will get larger or smaller communication with the Conscience.
It means, in last analysis, that the factor communication is the one that gives the level of the degree of conscience.
Then, to increase the communication, I need to balance the vehicles:
- The physical, by the healthy feeding, exercises, breathing, rest and leisure, taking care naturally with the balance of the activities of our life.
- The vital, by the practice of the breathing, of the Pranayama, of the Yogas. One of its functions is to absorb Prana, Cosmic energy, which will be presented in the chapter XIII, and that absorption is made by the breathing. We can pass days without food, nights without sleeping but we won't resist to minutes without breathing. The oxygen is essential food of the physical body, but Prana has a feeder potential billion of times bigger than his. It is enough to see the case of Yogues that get to be indeterminate time without breathing. It is that they control the absorption of Prana directly by the ethereal centers, by the chakras.
- The emotional body, by the transformation of the emotion. A conscious work, getting in touch with current lines of the psychology and that are addressed exactly to the perfection of the interior life.
- The mental body - the man's evolution, even in an unconscious way, begins with the mental, which is the fulcrum of the internal process in the current evolutionary cycle, whose objective is the domain of the emotion by the mental. The first step for the organization of this body is the enlargement of the mental capacity. I begin by the acquisition of knowledges. Not erudition, not culture degree. It is not exactly how much I know. It is a new attitude - the one of disposition for the study, for the mental work. I begin of the point where I am. It happens that only the knowledge is not enough. The whole knowledge needs to be transformed in existence so that we go on putting to the proof the Laws that govern the life. Our nature is as a scale. When I put knowledge in a plate, I need to put action in the other. If I separate knowledge from the action, I enter in unbalance.
The enlargement of the mental, the interior transformation and plus the group of practices proposed by the Yoga take the individual to cross the mental rational and to enter in the strip of the intuition.
When organizing the vital, emotional and mental, by conscious work, I facilitate the performance of the Conscience and increase the sharpness of the Reason. I acquire larger capacity to analyze, to argue and to find fair solutions before the Law, once Reason is the externalization of the Conscience. It is the "quantum" of Universal truths, of Laws, I allow to be exteriorized through my psychic activity.
Analyzing all this that we have just exposed, it is easy to understand that the degree of conscience is a relative value:
There exists a fixed value that is the Conscience, equal for everybody.
It happens, however, that the other elements that participate in the process of communication are variables:
Physical state;
The composition of the vital that the person brings as Karma and of the work that is being done now;
The composition of the emotional, emotional experiences, the work that is being done;
The composition of the mental that the person brings, plus knowledge that she acquires, more opening and liberation of the prejudices;
Level of communication that already we bring and that she gets to get better or worsen.
With all those variables and a fixed value, we enter in the law of the probabilities that results in an infinite amount of possibilities. That is the reason for Roso de Luna to say: "The Maya Buddhist, or in other words, the illusions of the physical world, is comparable to Einstein's relativity". Each man conceives the reality in agreement with his degree of evolution, according to the game of the elements of the soul, for that, there cannot have discussion in the sense of imposing ideas, but only the dialogue.
Each one of us is a completely singular, different being; each one sees the world and gatecrashes the concepts in a particular way.
We are front of an extraordinary psychological reality and that concerns to the Judgment.
"Don't you judge so that you will not be judged", it seems mystic. But, "don't you judge because with your degree of conscience you cannot measure the degree of your fellow creature's conscience", we begin to work with greatness and it has a scientific connotation.
They are words of Carl Rogers (1.902): "The phenomenal field of the individual can pass by a series of changes, offering several possible alternatives of answers. For the observer, the resulting behavior may seem irrelevant, inadequate or even destructive. But, in any case, his judgment might not have been based on all of the available indicia. The indicia and reasons are only available for the own person." And, nevertheless, with all of the elements at hand, we find almost insurmountable barriers for a self-judgment.
Gaiarça, in his "Treaty on the gossip" that he classifies as the largest emotional plague, says: "Gossip is that which the inhibited people, stupid, unable, do against the ones that move, that live, that make creative things."
As a result of the effort for self-organization, we will go increasing the degree of conscience. Our resolutions will go on approximating more and more of the purposes of the Law.
Summarizing: Degree of conscience results of the "quantum" of Laws that I become aware and that I pass to apply in the daily life, do I belong to which philosophical or religious line, doesn't matter; what imports is that the Universal Laws are being really understood and practiced.