Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tt00172)

Mar 16th

Dear Peter and Rich could I but in a bit ?

HPB in an article entitled ISIS UNVEILED AND THE VISISHTADWAITA
(Thst. Jan, 1886;  HPB Articles, ULT Vol. III, p. 265)

states:  "...though merged entirely in PARABRAHM, owing to the
accumulation in it of the aggregates or skandhas that have
survived after each death, from the highest faculties of the
Manas.  The most spiritual, i.e., the highest and divinest
aspirations of every personality follow Buddhi and the seventh
principle into Devachan (Swarga) after the death of each
personality along the line of rebirths, and become part and
parcel of the Monad...."

And there are several other statements made in the philosophy
that say almost the same thing. [ Isis I xviii,  292,  SD I
535fn, 453, 243, 266,  II 232-3fn,
80, 198, 271,  Mahat. Let 98,  ] - some of these are suggestive.

I always thought the statements about the "undying Race"  SD II
275fn, 281 were very important also as they indicate what we can
become if we "try."

Dal

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-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com
[mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Merriott
Sent:	Tuesday, March 16, 1999 6:12 AM
To:	theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject:	RE: Theos-World Remission of Sins

Hi Rich,

You wrote:
> But it is quite misleading, even false, to speak of "achieving"
Nirvana.
> There is nothing to achieve, nothing to attain, nothing to do,
IN REALITY.
> "It" is.  And "we" are THAT.

I sort of agree with you - in so far as our essential nature is
'THAT', then
there is nothing to be achieved.  Our esential nature always is
that which
'IT IS'.  But there seems to be more doesn't there when we
consider the
nature of the Monadic evolution, the importance of acquiring
Manas, 'self
consciousness' and so on?

Would it be 'better' to say that we need to merge this faculty of
'SELF-awareness' (Manas united to Atma-Buddhi) into Nirvana?  And
that this
is what we need to achieve as a "universal brotherhood" in this
Manvatara?

Regards,

Peter


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