Re-viewing I : Life One: Crossing the Red Sea with Moses – the Teacher.

Who thought our Soul?

Soul, whether philosophical trajectories or religion ones, comes from the history of relative being in which the transitoriness of the human’s wheel of life was systematically represented thru the system of reincarnation—which called the repetition of more or less conversations. Who thought our Soul, in every now and then, will definitely govern to whom the Soul begin, take journeys, and end the story. Like the conversation among dreamy and alone (= All One) child with his own Father n Moses in the Life One, Bhaskar tried to emancipate the goal of singularized soul as he declared to attain the God within.

Shortening the story of the Life One, the child at the age of twelve drops earthenware water jug into twelve pieces. This water is a symbol of purify and the age of aquarius, it likewise symbolises that the soul will have to meet with and encounter impurity (and repurify) in order to realise its mission.[i] The jug signify that without the whole, the hole (absence, cavity, emptiness, space) can’t be preserved. So in gaining the totality at the same way we need to gain the absence or emptiness as the black holes of fear, illusions, desires, etc. Road to the age of thirty three/four, the child received a chalice from his Guru as a symbol of his coming, enlightment and eventual. On which, Bhaskar wants to symbolise that the fall consequent upon engagement in the things of world is cravings and suffering than hiding in cave.

Bhaskar argues that the internal integration and external fulfillment is the substantial foundation to realize the misson of the universal self realisation. The role of practice is to replace the fear and rote by love and spontaneity, external obedience by internal obedience, and thence by intuition and spontaneous right action.[ii] This dialectical process of reflection comes to clarify that soul is reflexive yet complementary inner and outer at the same time.

In many ways to go to believe, especially in the Western’s tradition, the idea of the Soul has a simultaneous effect in determining and murdering our intuition. The calls of Universe (Refers to God within by Bhaskar’s definition) which usually come from the voices of “spontaneous will” consequently will be nothing but the rationality takes into account very perfectly. We directly lost our sensitivity to listen the heart’s speech, some signs that pronounce massages from the God without. In order to live again the dead intuition, man have to plant in their essential responsibility of life about being honest to yet for her/his own self. The honesty being, let’s say, has a foundational connection to the calls of Universe.

Notes

[i] Ram Roy Bhaskar, From East to West : An Odyssey of a Soul (Critical Realism – Interventions), (London: Routledge, 2000), 73.

[ii] Ram Roy Bhaskar, From East to West : An Odyssey of a Soul (Critical Realism – Interventions), (London: Routledge, 2000), 78.

[In every day, I write a review series on 15’s journeys of a Soul by Roy Bhaskar. You guys can find the bundle of stories thru the book From East to West : An Odyssey of a Soul.]