National Wales Centre for Theosophy:-
Devachan
By
H P Blavatsky
Devachan is the
state of consciousness which the Ego eventually reaches after the death of the
physical body and when the desires of the personality have been discarded. It
is often referred to by Theosophists as the second death
This article
is a response by H P Blavatsky to a question about this state
To realize
the conditions of spiritual existence of any sort it is necessary to get above
the plane of merely physical perceptions. One cannot see the things of the
spirit with the eyes of the flesh, and one cannot successfully appreciate
subjective phenomena by help only of those fully appreciate subjective
phenomena by help only of those intellectual reflections which appertain to the
physical senses. "How can a conscious existence without activity or
pursuit be one of satisfaction or enjoyment?" It would only emphasize the
mistaken idea which this questions embodies if one were to ask instead,
"how can a conscious existence without athletic sports and hunting be one
of enjoyment?" The cravings of man's animal or even human nature are not
permanent in their character.
The demands
of the mind are different from those of the body. In physical life an
ever-recurring desire for change impresses our imagination with the idea that
there can be no continuity of contentment, without variety of occupation and
amusement. To realize completely the way in which a single vein of spiritual
consciousness
may continue for considerable periods of time to engage the attention - of a
spiritual entity, is probably posssible only for persons
who already in life have developed certain inner faculties, dormant in mankind
at large. But meanwhile our present correspondent may perhaps derive some
satisfaction from the fact - as explained in recent essays on the subject -
that
one sort of
variety is developed in Devachan to a very high degree; viz. the variety which
naturally grows out of the simple themes set in vibration during life.
Immense
growths, for example, of knowledge itself are possible in Devachan, for the
spiritual entity which has begun the "pursuit" of such knowledge
during life. Nothing can happen to a spirit in Devachan, the keynote of which
has not been struck during life; the conditions of a subjective existence are
such that the importation of quite external impulses and alien thoughts is
impossible. But the seed of thought once sown, the current of thoughts once set
going (the metaphor may freely be varied to suit any taste), and then its
developments in Devachan may be infinite, for the sixth sense there and the
sixth principle are our instructors; and in such society there can be no
isolation, as physical humanity understands the term. The spiritual ego in
fact, under the tuition of his own sixth principle, need be in no fear of being
dull, and would be as likely to sigh for a doll's house or a box of ninepins as
for the harps and palm leaves of the mediaeval Heaven.
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Defintion of Devachan given in H P Blavatsky’s
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