Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00123)

Mark:
> Nicholas' compilation from Vasishtha (Theosophy World, Nov.) is a
>great piece of work. Wonderful material! Considering Vasishtha's
>comments on the "God" concept, Ingersoll the atheist would have loved it,
>but doubt Sathya Sai Baba would (a possibility as the "last quarter
>messenger" one theosophist told me...).

Suggest you read more widely in Sathya Sai Baba's works. Sai Baba has
always presented a path of stages -- running from dualism to the highest
Truth -- impersonal non-dualism. For example:

"Have faith in the basic Atma which is your real truth; test all lines of
conduct on that basis, whether it will hinder the process of revealing
the Atma or not..."

"It is a question of surrendering all to the Atma. It is not a question
of surrendering to some other one. One surrenders to oneself.
Recognition that Atma is oneself is surrender."

"The Atma is the source, the sustenance, of every being... It is the one
and only source, substance & sustenance. The Atma is God, the particular
is the universal, no less."

Many other examples could be given.

Best,

--
Nicholas <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
 The cause of pain is vice; the cause of happiness is virtue.
 -- Patanjali