Belief System as Medium for Prayers:A Perspective From Radhasoami Point of View

All impressions of acts,desires,and thoughts are preserved in the highly elastic Manakasa.They are transmitted to destination by the elasticity and constitute centres of further acts.These impressions travel life through life and are known as Samskaras and determine the circumstances,qualities,and attitudes of an individual.They form the founding belief system which firms up and matures with spiritual training,development,and experience of an individual in the small space allocated to free-will.The fountainhead of quantum spiritual force field is the Supreme Being;field is compact in purely spiritual,lesser in spiritual-material,loose in material-spiritual region,and void in nether pole.The basic flux is the attraction of spirit,mind,and the matter respectively which bind the particles together.The God-particle discovered by scientists is the physical particle of the material-spiritual region.The God-particle of spiritual-material region is subtler.The supreme God-particle of spiritual region is the subtlest.The scientists are far from it.All arrangements in creation are carried through currents.Similarly,the entire economy of this physical body is regulated by currents,known collectively as the nervous system.Networks of currents spread out in individual systems/sub-systems.Humans are wired in these networks and constitute its quanta in the quantum force field.Network conductors in the creation are so programmed as to recognize only the Dhunyatmak sounds which reverberate on their own.The sensory conductors in the human body shall take the call only when the individual spirit tunes in with the Dhunyatmak sound characteristic of that Region.When that happens,one’s spirit is transported to that region.The spiritual force field is agitated by the meditation;the particles of that force field coalesce to form conducting particles which constitute the path thru the particular artery connecting the spirit entity with the presiding deity on virtual form.Belief,degree of consciousness,faith,and love for a deity are synonymous.Belief system is fundamental to human existence.One’s religion is basically his/her belief system.Each individual belief system is unique.Human existence is composed of spirit,mind,and the body each having its own reservoir.Man is de-facto the microcosm while creation is macrocosm.Man represents all spheres of the creation.Devotion,love,and faith for the Lord are embedded in the microcosm or individual belief system with sustained meditation over a period of time which help in establishing communication channels with the macrocosm.Nevertheless,the devotion of a helpless human being can never be perfect and pure.It is always corrupted by the internal noise and pernicious propensities.God is conquered and he is willing to be conquered by his lovers.Lord is the sea of“grace and mercy”.He accepts even the corrupt Bhaktieven when the belief systems are not firmly embedded in the nerve systems of the people who are driven to prayer meets by personal and selfish ends.

The Stages of the Soul Through the Path of Perfection:The Journey of the Servants to the Place of Return(Seyr al-‘Ibād ilāal-Ma‘ād)

The Journey of the Servants to the Place of Return(Seyr al-‘Ibād ilāal-Ma‘ād)is an allegory mathnavi that suggests a man’s spiritual purification through a deeper understanding of creation,the influence of the planets,and the four elements on his thoughts and behaviors.Their effect will change a man’s life after his death if he does not control them.By taming the negative traits,he may enjoy the bliss of paradise if he does not control them,and may enter into the fire of hell.This mystical/literary work offers practical methods that may eliminate negative traits in an individual’s soul if he practices them.The poet emphasizes the necessity of following a master who guides the pupil through a spiritual journey to achieve perfection and become one with the Creator.

Adaptive strategies of high and low nucleic acid prokaryotes in response to declining resource availability and selective grazing by protozoa

Prokaryotes play a fundamental role in global ocean biogeochemical cycles.However,how the abundance and metabolic activity of ecologically distinct subgroups(i.e.,high nucleic acid(HNA)and low nucleic acid(LNA)cells),and their regulating factors,change in response to changing marine environmental conditions remains poorly understood.Here,we delved into the time-evolving dynamic responses of the HNA and LNA prokaryotic subgroups to declining resource availability and selective grazing by protozoa by conducting a 73-day incubation experiment in a large-volume(117,000 L)macrocosm that facilitates community-level exploration.We found that the metabolic activity of the HNA subgroup was higher than that of the LNA subgroup when the macrocosm was resource replete but that the HNA subgroup declined more rapidly than the LNA subgroup as the resources became increasingly scarce,leading to a steadily increasing contribution of LNA cells to prokaryotic activity.Meanwhile,as resources in the macrocosm became limited,protozoan grazing preference shifted from the HNA to the LNA subgroup and the contributions of the LNA subgroup to the carbon flow within the macrocosm increased.The findings highlight the resilience of LNA cells in resource-limited environments,illuminate the critical role of selective grazing by protozoa in balancing distinct prokaryotic subgroups under changing resource conditions,and demonstrate the complex and adaptive interactions between protozoa and prokaryotes across diverse environmental contexts.