Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00054)

clint mccray wrote:

>     Why deos the manavantara phase involve such horrific designs, why,
> if we are one (and I believe we are) do we war against eachother,
> elementals included.  Where did malice begin?  How can it be expained?
Because  the World is not created by an "all wise, powerful and love-ful" 
Creator, there is no God or Gods who are potent enough to counteract all the 
suffering created by ignorant beings.

>     Honestly, if your bad thought scenario holds water, then it's no
> wonder my own life has been fraught with negativity, and why so many
> people who are damaged psychologically at a young age end up in such
> damnable positions in society.  A child abused will think horrible
> thoughts, if that attracts dark elementals and they feed on and to the
> childs thought process-a child- who is clueless about the way of things
> could grow up to be a tyrant.  Is no force watching out for the
> mislead?  The Masters might care, but what are they doing to curb the
> anger of humanity at the injustices percieved?
> >
Injustice and suffering exist only in the consciousness of those who 
experience them, as long as one considers oneself to have a definite form 
and identify with it; if the form is transcended, one knows the One Self to 
be eternal. The trouble now is due to your seeing the world outside yourself 
and thinking there is pain in it. But both the world and the pain are within 
you and are no more real than the individual who sees them.

Compassion acts as a means of making us feel love for the time being. But it 
becomes unpleasant if instead of identifying our mind with our 
love-sensation, we get swept up in the sufferings of the person towards whom 
we are feeling compassionate. When a child breaks one of its toys and set up 
ear-splitting cries, we don't immediately feel inclined to start crying too. 
We smile and pet the child and hug it a little, and there the matter ends. 
It is also not true compassion if we cannot give to the inflictor of 
suffering an understanding as perfect as the sympathy which we give to the 
sufferer.

Nature is destitute of goodness or malice; she follows only immutable laws 
when she either gives life and joy, or sends suffering and death, and 
destroys what she has created. There is no use to complain of her actions or 
those of Masters who are her co-workers, we can only partially understand 
their actions and the working of Karma .

An advice from Santideva in Bodhicaryavatara may give some consolation.

"My joy will not be disturbed, even by the occurrence of the most 
frustrating event, Even if I become frustrated, my desire will not be 
fulfilled, and my virtue will decline.

If  there is a remedy, then why be unhappy? If there is no remedy, then what 
is the use of unhappiness."

Krishna's discourse to Arjuna is also of the same sentiment.

"Whence this lifeless dejection, Arjuna, in this hour, the hour of trial? 
Strong men know not despair, Arjuna, for this wins neither heaven nor 
earth....

Thy tears are for those beyond tears; and are thy words words of wisdom? The 
wise grieve not for those who live; and they grieve not for those who die 
-for life and death shall pass away.

Because we all have been for all time: I, and you, and those kings of men. 
And we all shall be for all time, we all for ever and ever....

The unreal never is: the Real never is not. This truth indeed has been seen 
by those who can see the true."

-Andrew


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