Daily Meditation: Monday, February 7, 2000

If you chase a fish, an insect, or any other animal, they …

02/07/2000

If you chase a fish, an insect, or any other animal, they will take refuge in a hole in a rock, in a bush, behind the bark of a tree, or under a leaf. Birds escape by flying away. As for people, they attempt to seek safety in a cellar, on a rooftop, in a tree, or on the water, depending on the dangers that threaten them. But it is not only physical dangers which threaten human beings. They are also vulnerable on the emotional plane and must know how to take shelter here as well. When we are being pursued by harmful entities of the astral world we must immediately seek refuge on another plane. The spirits do not have access to all planes; they are created to live and act in certain specific regions and cannot cross over those borders. The entities of the astral plane are unable to follow us everywhere. If we are able to rise up to the mental plane, and even beyond, to the causal, buddhic, and atmic planes,1 we are safe. It is this very ablity to move from one plane to another which gives human beings their freedom.