Man represents in him the doctrine of trinity on earth, as he combines in himself body, mind and soul, the last being of the essence of God, the life-breath enlivening both the body and the mind making one a living man, with the breath of God surging in him from top to toe.
The human body is individualized matter as much as spirit enshrouded therein seems to be an individualized spirit, like the sun reflected in so many water pots. At death, the body, composed as it is of different elements, dissolves and returns to the cosmic reservoir of substances, ultimately merging in one primal substance; and the soul returns to God:
“As soon as the silver cord is loosened, the golden bowl is broken like a pitcher at the fountain or the wheel at the cistern. Then the dust returns unto the earth as it was and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.”
Eccl. 12: 6-7
A living man is not something independent of, and apart from the Supreme Power that flows in him. He is a product of the Supreme Power acting on material plane through an organized body of waves which produce a state of consciousness in him. Man exists when the Supreme Power runs in and through his bodily mould, but when that Power withdraws unto Itself, he is no more a living entity, for all functional activity in him ceases; and what remains? – Nothing but a mass of inert matter, the same as before in shape and substance, but without the living life-impulse that was pulsating in him moments before.
Like man, the entire universe is a manifestation of the one Life-Principle, the principle of living consciousness in varying degrees, right from Logos down to the atoms of the material elements perpetually moving in rhythmic motion, forming and reforming in quick succession many patterns by the Supreme Power acting in and upon them. In short, the intelligence of the universe abides, and abides forever and anon, in the heart of each atom which is dancing to its tune, like the eternal dance of Shiva, the living embodiment of Shakti, the Mother of the universe. In the esoteric cosmogony, the theory of ‘dead’ matter does not find any place whatsoever for matter cannot exist by itself without the cohesive power inherent therein. Matter in fact is energy in congealed form.
From: Sant Kirpal Singh, The Mystery of Death, ¹1968, Ch. 1
