“BARDO”

An excerpt from’ Mahatma Letters’ To A. P. Sinnett: Philosophical& Theoretical Teachings

“Bardo is the period between death and rebirth—and it may last from a few days /years to a kalpa. It is divided into three sub-periods (1) when the Ego delivered of its mortal coil enters into Kama-Loka ( the abode of Elementaries);  (2) when it enters into its “Gestation state”;  (3) when it is reborn in the Rupaloka of Devachan. Sub-period (1) may last from a few minutes to a number of years—the phrase ‘a few years” becoming puzzling and utterly worthless without a more complete explanation;  Sub-period (2) is “very long”, as you say, longer sometimes than you may imagine, yet proportionate to the Ego’s spiritual stamina. Sub-period (3) lasts in proportion to the good Karma, after which the monad is again ‘reincarnated’. The Agama Sutra saying:- -“ In all these Rupalokas, the Devas(Spirits) are equally subjected to birth, decay, old age, and death,” means only that an Ego is borne thither, then begins fading out and finally dies,”  i. e. falls into that unconscious condition which precedes rebirth; and ends the Sloka with these words;  “As the devas emerge from these heavens, they enter the lower world again;” i. e. They leave a world of bliss to be reborn in a world of causes.  

Ajna, The Command

Ājñā, (The Command)

Beloved light,
Space
In my heart,
Words
Go silent.

Space fills as I rise
Space fills.
with the Word received
and when the Word falls, in the space of the heart, it brings the Light.
And the light must be received.
That is the command But that is not the end.
It is a sojourn: a pause.

I, a sound, a rumble in the sea,
a thunder in the sky.
the pulse in the body,
the cracking of the ancient bow,
the sound of the waves,
rising and falling;
the silence all around,
the silence listens
in the supreme archetype of reverence for the sound.

The space fills;
reverberates with the Word received.