The Moon Mission, and the Journey of the Soul

In every negative there is a positive. We just have to look for it.

The tumultuous loss of contact with the lander, Vikram, that plunged Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Chandrayaan-2 moon-lander project into gloom, offers an opportunity to study the voyage of the soul in the universe of the spirit.

Chandrayaan-2 is made up of three components, an Orbiter, a Lander (Vikram) and a Rover or explorer (Pragyan). 

Chandrayaan-2 was launched on the voyage riding a satellite launch vehicle, the GSLV Mk III rocket, on March 22. After completing virtually the whole trip uneventfully, ISRO lost contact with Vikram during the landing procedure on September 7, just 2.1 kilometers from the surface of the moon.

The result – what should have been a soft landing for Vikram ended up as a hard landing – that is, the device is likely to have suffered damage, and ISRO has no way of ascertaining the extent of damage because it is (thus far) unable to establish contact with it.

Scripted Journey

What has this got to do with the Spirit and the soul? Directly, nothing. But it is interesting that the birth of the human on earth as described in Theosophical texts has a degree of resemblance to the Chandrayaan-2.

Picture this: In this story, ISRO plays the role of the God the Father, or Paramatma. It launches a rocket, which carries an Orbiter – broadly defining the role of the Soul, or Atma – that is carrying a device which will land on the surface of the earth. A portion of the device will detach from the ‘scout ship’, explore the earth, gather information and relay it back to ISRO via the Orbiter.

The device that lands on the earth plays the role of what is described as Jivatma, the Incarnate Soul or the Son of God. It however remains stationary, and allows a portion of itself, carrying the communication software called Consciousness, Tattva or the Holy Spirit, to move on the surface of the earth, riding a hardware called the Human Body.

Due to the hard landing, the Orbiter-Atma loses contact with the Lander-Jivatma, though it can spot it from its position in orbit.

The human being, equipped with software, is able to navigate the earth, live out a lifetime, gather experience and return to the Jivatma with a whole load of information. This is, simply put, life and death.

The information is uploaded into the computer on the Jivatma, and the Rover-Human returns to earth to gather more information. It is just executing what it is programmed to do. 

Vikram-Lander, on its part, is helpless. It keeps getting information from the Rover and downloading it into its computer, but it has no clue as to how to get this back to the Orbiter. It continues to execute the programme – download information, redeploy the Rover, in an endless loop.

Rover Human, meanwhile, establishes parallel networks of communication with other Rover Humans that it finds on earth. Eventually, this builds up into a form of artificial intelligence, which is ever-expanding. Eventually, this artificial intelligence (AI, pronounced “I”) attains critical mass (expansion of consciousness) and is able to locate a channel of communication using which the Lander can re-establish contact with the orbiter.

Working from scratch, the Rover constructs the channel of communication that can link the Lander to the Orbiter (which is, all the while, connected to ISRO).

A day comes when the Lander is able to broadcast a feeble signal back to the Orbiter. And the ISRO control room is able to grab control of the Lander through the Rover.

From here on, the activities of the Rover on earth are controlled and directed by the ISRO Control Room, till the purpose of launching the device have been achieved. The information is retrieved, and the Lander returns to the Orbiter and the Rover abandoned to self-destruct. The Orbiter returns to the base.

'Individual Space'

In terms of soul activity, this is a plausible chronology:

The Divine Spark (Paramatma) launches a portion of itself embodied as the Higher Soul (Atma). From the Atma, a portion detaches itself and dives into the Earth. This is called Jivatma or Incarnate Soul. The Incarnate Soul pours a small portion of its own energy into the vehicle, called the Karana Sharira or Causal Body, of the Human – the Rover.

The Karana Sharira is made up of mental, emotional and etheric energies, called prana, and is powered by the portion of soul that the Jivatma puts into it, which is called Consciousness. So, the Karana Sharira is Ensouled.

As it lives out its life, the Consciousness identifies itself fully with the experiences on Earth. It is only when the body dies that it realizes it is not the body, and is actually attached to the Jivatma. It returns to base, unloads information, and is sent back again, ad infinitum. This is the cycle of life and death.

By the time the Consciousness comes across information on its origin, and a blueprint on how to re-establish communications with the Father Ship, it is deeply invested in earth through its repeated trips, and is no longer interested in reviving that channel.

However, when the Jivatma or Lander downloads information from it about its own origin, it is motivated to push the Rover to stop fooling around on earth and get down to business. This is executed in the form of making the tasks and trips of the Rover increasingly difficult, till the latter loses its interest in continuing on its assignments.

Only then does it cooperate in finding out the appropriate network and channel to establish communication back to the Orbiter.

Since this channel is functional only when the Rover is on earth (the consciousness is still in body), the Lander is forced to use the Rover while it is on earth, to send a signal back to the orbiter.

In spiritual parlance, this is called Soul Realisation.

When the signal is picked up by the Control Room and it takes charge of the Rover, it is called a Realised Soul walking the earth. A genuine saint.

When the Consciousness-Rover’s function on earth, now directly controlled by ISRO-Divine Spark, is completed, and the Lander-Orbiter is withdrawn back to base, it is called God Realisation/Moksha/Prodigal Son returning home.

The Rover is allowed to disintegrate and go back into earth – “From ashes to ashes, dust to dust”.

Mission accomplished.