The Rainbow Bridge
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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