Daily Meditation: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Planes, the physical, astral and mental - we mustn’t neglect any of them

07/20/2010

Anyone who wishes to devote themselves exclusively to prayer, meditation and the work of thought, while totally doing away with physical work, will produce great anomalies within themselves. Humans are created to live in the three worlds - the mental, astral, and physical - that is to say, the worlds of thought, feeling and action. If you neglect any one of these three planes, you mutilate yourself, you lose your integrity, and you cannot present yourself to the Lord as someone who has sought to harmoniously develop all the possibilities he gave you. What is more, you should know that in neglecting one plane you harm the quality of the other two. These days physical work is devalued, and it is left to appliances and machines as often as possible. People increasingly avoid walking or climbing stairs. But when you refuse to make an effort on the physical plane, you also end up by encountering obstacles in the realms of feeling and thinking.