Choices as Breathing in Higher Realm

We meet someone with whom we have never previously interacted. Even if he hasn't spoken to us, something about him is revealed. Either we have let him in, or we have rejected him. There is a subtle effect that we may label as either hate or love—the beautiful or the disgusting. It's our second body that reacts to attraction or repulsiveness. And the process never ceases; it always continues. 

"Symphony" painted by Rudradev Sen

We constantly take in influences and then discard them. There will always be the other pole. We will eventually feel repelled if we have loved someone. 

If we have ever loved someone, we will feel repelled, and our breath will be expelled. Thus, there will always be a moment of revulsion after a moment of love. The life force is found in opposites. At no one pole does it exist. It's not possible! And we always try the unthinkable when we try to make it do so. It's impossible to love someone without at some point hating him. 

Because the vital force cannot exist at a single pole, there will always be hostility. Since it exists at opposing polarities, there will always be enemies among friends. This ingress and egress will continue until the seventh body. Without this process of entering in and going out, nobody could exist. It cannot exist without inhaling and exhaling, just as the physical body cannot survive without these processes.

"Five Elements" painted by Rudradev Sen

We never consider these two things to be opposites in terms of the physical body, thus we are not bothered by it. Life does not distinguish between the breath that enters and the breath that leaves. No moral distinction exists. Both are the same, thus there is nothing to choose. It's a natural phenomenon.

However, love must exist, and hatred must not exist in the second body. Then we have started making choices. We are starting to make choices, and that will cause problems. For this reason, the physical body often has more health than the second body, the etheric body. The etheric body is in constant struggle because it has been corrupted by moral decision-making. We feel well when we are around love; we feel sick when we are around hatred. 

"Vase" painted by Rudradev Sen

However, it is inevitable, so one who is aware of it and has grasped the polarities will not be let down when it does. Knowing the polarities puts one at rest and in balance. He doesn't try to love when he isn't loving or incite hatred since he knows it will eventually happen. 

Things come and go; he feels neither repelled by the departing nor drawn to the entering. He is merely an observer. He continues, "It is just like breath coming in and breath going out."