Entire inert and conscious nature is active - ceaselessly. A stone is active ceaselessly. A plant is active ceaselessly. An animal is active ceaselessly. A human-being is active ceaselessly. Earth is active ceaselessly. Nature's ceaseless activity or its "active-presence" is due to its being energized. Space in which Nature is saturated is the Absolute-Energy which is inseparably, equally, and always available to all entities of Nature. Space is a limitless non-activity - which is pervasive, transparent, and permeable through entities of nature. Nature in Space is as infinite number of activities. Space is everywhere - at the places where Nature is, and also where Nature isn't. Nature doesn't displace Space. The "infinitely porous" Nature is continuously energized in Space - ensuring its beingness or existence. Existence - all that is - is infinite nature saturated in limitless Space. Nature being saturated in Space is committed to exist.
Existence has Stability. There is no increase or decrease in existence. Neither there is increase or decrease in Space, nor is there any increase or decrease in Nature. Nothing gets created, nor can anything be destroyed - through any means. Entire existence is eternal. Space is enternal and changeless. Nature is eternal and with change. Space is non-activity. Nature is ceaseless activity in Space.
The Activities of Nature are of three kinds - Physical-activity, Chemical-activity, and Conscious-activity (the activity of jeevan). There is no fourth kind of activity. The entire Grandeur of Nature is as permutation-combination of these three kinds of activities. All three activities evidence the constitution-principle, and are inclined for harmony and progress. The subatomic-particles are inclined for harmony by realizing constitution of an atom. Atoms are inclined for realizing constitution of molecules. Molecules are inclined for realizing the constitution of cells. Cells are inclined for realizing constitution of tissues. ...and this goes on at macro level. Planets are inclined for realizing constitution of planetary-systems. Human-beings (upon awakening) are inclined for realizing constitution of Family and Society. The activities of nature work together, purposefully.
Nature's ceaseless-activities are purposeful - which leads to emergence of natural-orders. There are four natural-orders - material-order, pranic-order, animal-order, and knowledge-order (humankind). Material-order and Pranic-order is also called Inert-Nature. Animal-order and Knowledge-order is also called Conscious-Nature. There is successive emergence of these natural-orders due to purposefulness of nature's ceaseless-activities. The previous order has the seed - as natural-inclination - for emergence of next order. This natural-inclination is evidenced in all entities of nature. This is the directionality in Existence - as definitiveness. This directionality in existence is for attaining completeness. This is also called "Existential-Progression". There are four planes in this existential-progression. These planes are - Inert-plane, Illusion-plane, Godly-plane, and Divine-plane.
A plane of existential-progression sets the limit or ceiling to the capacity (what it could do at the maximum?) and ability (what it can presently do?) of entities of that plane. The entities of a plane are ceaselessly active in converting their capacities and abilities into effort - which either leads to their attaining potential for progression to higher plane, or it leads to their regression within the same plane. The progression to higher plane is irreversible - when it happens. Between the four planes in existential-progression, there are three milestones of completeness marking the irreversible transitions to next plane. These milestones are called - constitutional-completeness, activity-completeness, and conduct-completeness.
In natural-state of being - a higher-plane of existence is complementary to lower-planes, and lower-planes are useful for the higher-planes for their expression. This hierarchy of usefulness and complementariness is there among all planes of existence.
Inert-plane (प्राण पद चक्र)
Inert-plane has all physiochemical-activities of Inert-Nature - as material-order and pranic-order. "Inert" doesn't mean no-activity - inert-activities are only "different from" conscious-activities (or activities of jeevan). The examples of physical-activities are - soils, stones, gems, and metals. Chemical-activities are distincted from Physical-activities by the bonding present in the atoms participating in them - and some of these evidence pulsation (breathing) and growth (through multiplication of cells). Cells of the bodies of plants and animals evidence chemical-activities. Inert-world is the foundation on which the conscious-world of animals and humans emerges. The "bodies of all natural-orders" are composed of physiochemical entities (activities) of inert-plane. Atom of inert-plane "progresses" through fulfilling its constitution and becomes a conscious-atom (jeevan). This milestone - called constitutional-completeness - is an irreversible transition to next plane in existence, which is called "illusion plane".
Illusion-plane (भ्रांत पद चक्र)
Conscious-entity expresses third kind of activity of nature - the conscious-activity. Conscious-activities are subtler, and are completely unlike the physiochemical activities. These are the activities of wanting, seeing, understanding, thinking, visualizing, knowing, experiencing... It is the activity of "living". Jeevan is constitutionally-complete atom - which expresses these conscious-activities as living. Expression of consciousness or aliveness in animals and humans is due to jeevan's activities. Expression of consciousness is not a function of body, it is a function of jeevan. Jeevan being subtler than body, expresses itself through animal and human-bodies of inert-plane. Jeevan enlivens body for expression of consciousness. (Please also see Tiers of Consciousness)
The illusion-plane is characterized by animal-consciousness. It is the plane of existence where jeevan believes itself to be body it enlivens. Jeevan's believing itself to be Body it enlivens is also called "Illusion". All animalkind and human-beings in illusion get counted in this plane of existence. While animalkind is able to realize natural-state of its being while living in illusion, human-living in illusion-plane is unnatural and ridden with sorrow and conflict. Animalkind being in its natural-state, is able to realize its complementariness to inert-nature. Humankind in illusion being in unnatural-state is unable to realize its complentariness to inert-nature, and instead it unknowingly starts destroying them, and thereby threatening its own survival. The level of consciousness of this plane is incapable of arrive at integral-vision for universal-good. There are multiple and divergent lines of thinking here, which cannot converge to produce an integral-vision for universal-good. Sensitive tolerance for each-other is the limit of what could be achieved here - which is merely a facade of courteousness and lacks integrity. (Please also see - Beyond the Age of Sensitive-Pluralism)
Humankind has the capacity of imagination and ability of free-will - which it keeps converting into effort. It is through use of imagination it becomes able to study the existence - and thereby achieves the breakthrough as consciousness-development of progressing into next plane of existence, i.e. the Godly-plane. (Please also see - Study in Coexistence for Consciousness-Development)
Godly-plane (देव पद चक्र)
Godly-plane is characterized by human-consciousness and godly-consciousness - as human-living with integrity and awareness. This is natural-state of human-being - as freedom from illusion, freedom from conflicts, and effortlessness in living. This state is achieved only when human-being has understood the way existence is, and its orderliness - as integral-vision for universal-good. It is living with integral-outlook of justice and dharma, and realization of intellectual-resolution and material-prosperity. Such living is inspiring for illusion-plane.
It is jeevan that achieves an irreversible qualitative-improvement for transition into Godly-plane. Between Godly-plane and Illusion-plane there are no intermediate tiers of consciousness. The evidence of progress from illusion-plane is only upon achievement of Godly-plane. With this achievement, Jeevan becomes able to realize itself through human-living. This milestone of existential-progression is called - Activity-Completeness. Human-imagination now becomes rooted in existential-experience. Existential-experience is the outcome of existential-progression. All previous links of existential-progression - as emergence of natural-orders - need to be there for achievement of existential-experience in human-being.
Godly-plane culminates in realization of awakened human-tradition, and thereby attaining the final milestone in existential-progression - i.e. Conduct-Completeness.
Divine-plane (दिव्य पद - पद मुक्ति)
Divine-plane is characterized by divine-consciousness - as human-living with spontaneity. Divine-plane is the culmination of existential-progression. It is when all four natural-orders are able to realize their usefulness and complementariness. It is the perfect-harmony - when no human-being on Earth remains to be in illusion.
This is the entire range of existential-progression. There is nothing more to it. When a human-being pays attention to this proposal for himself, and evaluates his own status in this existential-progression - it gives him a definite way forward.
Source: Madhyasth Darshan, while studying it.
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