Antahkarana

Known as the "Golden Bridge," "Rainbow Bridge," or "Continuity of Consciousness," the Antahkarana is a thread of light linking the individual to Source (Figure 1). While not yet active or established in everyone, it represents the ultimate path of spiritual alignment. It acts like a HDTV cable connection linking the Lower Self and Higher Self directly to the Godhead.  

A permanent antahkarana in people is a rare occurrence, for it normally takes many lifetimes to build. However, by a special dispensation of Grace, the Lily Activation activates a fully assembled, complete, and permanent antahkarana in one sitting. This HDTV connection facilitates enlightenment and brings perfections of deity to the truth-seeker (normally taking many lifetimes to acquire). 

The importance of the antahkarana in spiritual development cannot be underestimated. If Kundalini is the stairway to Heaven, antakharana is the express elevator.  Without the antakharana, according to Torkom Saraydarian, "one can never advance on the path of perfection and bring treasures of higher realms to this world."

According to Alice Bailey, the antahkarana "facilitates the stream of flow of consciousness and produces that continuity of consciousness, or that sense of unimpeded awareness, which will negate all sense of separateness, and make a man responsive in his brain consciousness to impressions coming to him from higher spiritual realms or from the Mind of God. Thus he will be more easily initiated into the purposes and plans of the Creator."

In his book "Aura: Shield of Protection and Glory," Saraydarian explains: "If a crack exists between the lower and higher minds, you are in total confusion between what is abstract and what is concrete; you are a mentally-suspended being who is neither in contact with heaven nor the world. Thousands of such people are found in various yoga groups, churches and so-called New-Age groups . . . When there is a crack between the Intuitional Plane and the Mental Plane, you are the best customer for psychiatrists and a ripe candidate for an asylum. Hallucination results from such a crack... Our advancement depends upon creating a passage between the planes so that our consciousness can travel in any plane without creating problems.  Such a passage is called the Antahkarana, the Golden Bridge, or Continuity of Consciousness."