Is Krama-Mukti (Sanskrit) the same spiral path that the Pratyeka Buddhas and Saints walk?
Accepted Answer
The term Krama-Mukti is used in different ways depending upon which particular tradition or scripture is using it. The Sanskrit word krama means "gradual" or "sequential," while mukti means "release." So in the context of what we study here, the term would accurately apply to the spiral path followed by pratyekas and shravakas. However, when studying scriptures or teachings of other traditions, be aware that the term has been used in other ways. For example, amongst some devotees of the ancient Vedas and for example the Brahma Sutra, the term is used to refer to those who over countless aeons have such devotion to God that they slowly rise up to merge with the highest. This process does not require any particular spiritual effort; it is just a slow evolution through uncountable lifetimes. In the end, the soul merges with the divine, but has accomplished no mastery, self-knowledge, or self-realization. This is different from the spiral path, because the spiral path requires the creation of the solar bodies and some degree of self-knowledge.
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"In the final synthesis, each one of us is nothing more than an atom from the Abstract Absolute Space, which is the interior atomic star that has always smiled upon us." - Samael Aun Weor
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
When you say returning to the core of our being, in terms of Kabbalah, are you referring to the Ain?
Just as there are differences in our comprehension here and now, so will there be differences when everything is stripped away and we return to our core of Being. What remains is our conscious comprehension, nothing more. Part of that is our devotion to the Ultimate.
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
By the sounds of it, essentially there appears to be grades or levels of development even within the Absolute?
I remember reading in the book by Samael Aun Weor, The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah, that the ones who have developed their solar bodies, when they enter into the Absolute, they enter as particles with something extra due to having created their solar bodies.
I remember reading in the book by Samael Aun Weor, The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah, that the ones who have developed their solar bodies, when they enter into the Absolute, they enter as particles with something extra due to having created their solar bodies.
By our definition of Buddha, no, since we understand the title of "Buddha" ("awakened") is earned by the Innermost after the completion of the fourth Initiation of Major Mysteries (Netzach), the creation of the Solar Mental body (Sahadeva / Najuda). The mind of such a being is different from animals (elementals).
Let us remember that at the end of the mahamanvantara (great age), everything will be returned to the Absolute, so in a sense, everything will acquire "krama-mukti," at least through the pralaya (cosmic night). By my understanding, however, the term is used more specifically to refer to those souls who have such longing for Divinity that they "rise above" the mechanical flow of the other elementals (raw consciousness, undeveloped). That is, they have more longing than others, but not enough longing to create the soul (Spiral Path) or incarnate the Light itself (Direct Path).
Let us remember that at the end of the mahamanvantara (great age), everything will be returned to the Absolute, so in a sense, everything will acquire "krama-mukti," at least through the pralaya (cosmic night). By my understanding, however, the term is used more specifically to refer to those souls who have such longing for Divinity that they "rise above" the mechanical flow of the other elementals (raw consciousness, undeveloped). That is, they have more longing than others, but not enough longing to create the soul (Spiral Path) or incarnate the Light itself (Direct Path).
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
So in terms of what we study here in Gnosis, those devotees of God who reach total liberation through Krama-Mukti, would they be like the equivalent of Elemental Buddhas but residing within the Absolute?
Thank you for clarifying, sharing your knowledge and advice with us.
Thank you for clarifying, sharing your knowledge and advice with us.
Accepted Answer
The term Krama-Mukti is used in different ways depending upon which particular tradition or scripture is using it. The Sanskrit word krama means "gradual" or "sequential," while mukti means "release." So in the context of what we study here, the term would accurately apply to the spiral path followed by pratyekas and shravakas. However, when studying scriptures or teachings of other traditions, be aware that the term has been used in other ways. For example, amongst some devotees of the ancient Vedas and for example the Brahma Sutra, the term is used to refer to those who over countless aeons have such devotion to God that they slowly rise up to merge with the highest. This process does not require any particular spiritual effort; it is just a slow evolution through uncountable lifetimes. In the end, the soul merges with the divine, but has accomplished no mastery, self-knowledge, or self-realization. This is different from the spiral path, because the spiral path requires the creation of the solar bodies and some degree of self-knowledge.
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes.” —Demosthenes
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
"Do not worry; cultivate the habit of being happy." —Samael Aun Weor
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