Involution (Meher Baba)

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This article is about involution in Meher Baba's teaching. For other uses, see Involution (disambiguation).

For Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba, involution is the inner path of the human soul to the Self.

Meher Baba states that evolution is the gathering of full consciousness, reincarnation is the state of most ordinary people caught up in karma, and involution is the journey of the fully-conscious human soul back to its origin through the higher planes of consciousness. According to Meher Baba, there are seven inner planes of consciousness beyond the one of ordinary human experience. Ordinary consciousness he calls gross consciousness and is entirely of the gross outer world. Planes 1-4 are of the subtle world (pran, or energy), planes 5-6 are of the mental world (mana, or mind), and plane 7 is of the Real, or beyond the creation.[1]

Reincarnation is a necessary part of the process of the advancement of consciousness, but consciousness more or less comes to a stalemate due to the impressions acquired in evolution that must be worked out in human form through the experience of diverse opposites before beginning involution.[2] It is due to the fading of these impressions and the awareness that one is in stalemate that one's attention is eventually turned inwards and one begins the path of involution.

This process of involution of consciousness gradually takes place as the gross impressions of the opposites gradually become fainter and less concentrated. At this stage the consciousness of the gross-conscious human soul gradually gets dissociated from the gross world, as the involution of consciousness infolds, and gradually dissociates from experiencing the impressions of the gross world.[3]

Meher Baba describes his view of the planes of involution in detail in his principle book God Speaks.

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  1. ^ God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose, by Meher Baba, Dodd Mead, 1955. Sec. ed. pp. 41-54
  2. ^ God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose, by Meher Baba, Dodd Mead, 1955. Sec. ed. p. 155
  3. ^ God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose, by Meher Baba, Dodd Mead, 1955. Sec. ed. p. 40
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