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the money that they are accumulating in the bank, making plans for what must be done the next day when their job resumes, or judging those around them with swirling mental currents of attachment and hatred. Certainly this is not a Sabbath at all.
Similarly, within our bodies, activity never ceases. Imagine how much work goes on whenever we merely eat a small meal. The tongue, the teeth, the digestive organs and the circulatory system are ever busy. Thus, in all respects, it is impossible for human activity ever to cease. This being so, what then, is the real meaning of the Sabbath?
The Mystical Meaning of the
Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath
According to Yogic philosophy, the six days of creation refer to God’s projection of the universe in six planes. The rst is the plane of Nature (Prakriti) or undifferentiated matter; the second is the plane of the Cosmic Mind (Mahat); the third is the plane of the ego principle (Ahamkara Tattwa); the fourth is the plane of the subtle elements; the fth is the plane of the mind and senses; and the sixth is the plane of the physical body and the physical world. “Sabbath” refers to the transcendence of these six planes through the development of intuitive intellect and the experience of samadhi, or the state of superconsciousness that unfolds through meditation.