Birth on Earth as a human being is a blessing granted only to a chosen soul from above. Yet within this life lies both faith and a choice—the choice to return back to the Source from which our journey began millennia ago, or to continue moving forward in an infinite journey.

At every stage of existence, two steps always appear before us: one leading upward, and the other downward. The question then arises: What do “up” and “down” truly mean? To move upward is to return toward the Source—the realm beyond time and end. To move downward is to continue onward in the endless cycle of births and deaths. Every birth becomes a relay in this infinite race of living, where death is not the ultimate end, but simply another turning point before the story begins again.

Human beings are given a unique gift: a tiny choice, accessible at every moment, which opens—even if only as a brief gaze—toward the divine world. Yet, bound by the strings of material life, we often fail to perceive this higher realm fully. Thus, we become like a pendulum, oscillating between worlds: the one we believe to be real—our material existence—and the one that is truly real, hidden behind a thin veil.

As Ouspensky wrote: “Beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separate us. The miraculous was a penetration into this unknown reality”.

But most of the time, our pendulum swings only on the visible, material side, which we perceive through our senses—this subjective world we call “reality.”

The quest for truth has many degrees. At its lower levels, it brings satisfaction through worldly achievements—success in science, art, or personal ambition. But this remains bound to the lower world, and holds no higher importance. At times, even an ordinary person may experience a sudden glimpse of the divine—the higher order. For example, at a funeral, when we stand face to face with mortality, a strange silence awakens within. It allows us to sense, for a moment, what lies beyond the veil.

To live in the divine world of higher order requires a completely different kind of work—not the degrees of science, arts, or medicine, but the work of the inner will. Throughout millennia, very few human beings have truly known how to shift from the lower world to the higher one. Among them are the figures humanity reveres—Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus, Kabir. They show us why a “school” is needed: a place for inner training.

But here, school does not mean what we ordinarily think. In Buddhism it is a monastery, in Christianity a church, but the label is secondary. A school in this higher sense exists not for intellectual exercises, but for the awakening of the soul. It is a living cosmos on Earth, where inner work takes place, and where the soul blossoms in the fire of divinity.

This “school” knows methods for how to evolve. And when one reaches it, one realizes that the so‑called “end” of life—death—is not an end at all, but the true beginning: a doorway into higher existence, into eternity, into living in the divine world within us.

 

Jitendra Vaghela has been associated with the Fourth Way for nearly a decade.