Page 32 - Soul's Divine Journey

Soul’S Divine journey

realization, for they deal exclusively with the mind rather
than the individual soul.
the divine soul that innately resides within each in-
dividual cannot extricate or identify itself under the normal
conditions of life, for it is enveloped within mind and
matter, and the lofty goal of Self realization is literally
impossible to achieve under such circumstances. the men-
tal diseases of greed, anger, lust, attachment, and vanity
serve as barriers to the soul’s desire to realize itself be-
cause they overwhelmingly engage the physical senses
with material objects and desires. with the five physical
senses engaged as such, the mental senses become attached
to the pleasure that is derived from them, and this basically
means that the mind is looking downward and has substi-
tuted the pleasure principle for true spiritual bliss and
realization. thus, the mind in turn entraps the spiritual
senses, and our spiritual identity is lost. therefore, ac-
cording to the Saints and Masters alike, Self realization is
the first major goal to be attained on the soul’s divine
journey back to its homeland.
however, the method by which the soul comes to re-
alize itself as distinctly different from the body, emotions,
and mind is far easier to describe than achieve. while in
the body and the human consciousness, the soul can be
identified and recognized as the quality of attention. to
free this attention from the influences of mind and matter
is the first spiritual objective, but the difficulty lies in the
fact that this attention has been submerged and totally
controlled by the conscious and subconscious minds for
numerous incarnations. likewise, the attention has been
overpowered and entrapped by endless karmic conditions,
for all of an individual’s tendencies and proclivities are
based on past karma, including those developed in one’s
present lifetime. Mind and matter are wholly comprised