DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

HIGHER  &  LOWER  SPIRITS

2nd June, 1925

Later that same day, the Master explained to the mandali about higher and lower spirits:

Higher spirits are actually agents of God — with powers and certain duties. They have physical forms in order to work in the world according to the directives issued by the Perfect Masters.

Lower spirits are those beings without physical forms whose sanskaras remain to be wiped out. They cannot progress after death until their unfinished sanskaras are worked out; as a consequence, they wander about on the lower astral plane. For this reason, they are a source of harassment to living people. Suppose a man is destined to have a lifespan of 40 years, but he commits suicide when he is 30. Consequently, for the remaining ten-year period of unexpressed sanskaras, his spirit inhabits the lower planes and, at times, is seen by some people as a spirit or ghost.

To hold séances or to talk with the dead [who have committed suicide] is laughable, because such spirits are always among us on this living plane. There are advanced yogis and munis who converse with these ghosts as well as with the spirits of the higher planes. These advanced souls communicate without using a medium; they live on both levels.

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