Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00705)

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Love / Hate

Dar friend:

Where is that 'love' that ever gives and expects no 'return,' nor does it
ever take?

Here are some notes I found valuable



C O M P A S S I O N and L O V E 


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CONSTITUTION OF MATTER: OLDER AND LESSER EXPERIENCE 
OF MANY "LIVES"


"Man is a Soul, and as such stands among material things. This Soul is not
only on its way upward for itself, but is compelled at the same time to draw
up, refine, purge and perfect the gross matter--so called-- in which it is
compelled to live. For though we call the less fine states of substance by
the name "matter," it is, however, made up of lives which have in them the
potentiality of becoming Souls in the enormously distant future; and the
Soul being itself a life made up of smaller ones, it is under the brotherly
necessity of waiting in the bonds of matter long enough to give the latter
the right impetus along the path of perfection."	WQJ ART I
536


COMPASSION	-- (Dicty.)	"Sorrow or pity excited by the distress or
misfortunes of another; sympathy, mercy, pity, clemency."



THE FINAL QUESTION -


"Calm and unmoved the Pilgrim glideth up the stream that to Nirvana
leads...when he hath crossed and won the Aryahata Path...There Klesha (love
of pleasure or of worldly enjoyment, evil or good) is destroyed for ever,
Tanha's roots torn out. But stay, Disciple ... Yet one word. Canst thou
destroy divine COMPASSION ? Compassion is no attribute. It is the Law of
LAWS--eternal Harmony, Alaya's SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the
light of everlasting right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love
eternal.

The more thou dost become at one with it, thy being melted in its BEING, the
more thy Soul unites with that which Is, the more thou wilt become
COMPASSION ABSOLUTE. (fn.:-- This "compassion" must not be regarded in the
same light as "God, the divine love" of the Theists. Compassion stands here
as an abstract, impersonal law, whose nature, being absolute Harmony, is
thrown into confusion by discord, suffering and sin.)

Such is the Arya Path, Path of the Buddhas of perfection."	VOICE 75-6



BUDDHA OF COMPASSION


"Yea; on the Arya Path thou art no more Srotapatti, thou art a Bodhisattva.
The stream is cross'd. Tis true thou hast a right to Dharmakaya vesture;
but Sambhogakaya is greater than a Nirvanee, and greater still is a
Nirmanakaya--the Buddha of Compassion. (fn.:-- A Bodhisattva is, in the
hierarchy, less than a "perfect Buddha." In the exoteric parlance these two
are very much confused. Yet the innate and right popular perception, owing
to that self-sacrifice has placed a Bodhisattva higher in its reverence that
a Buddha. This same popular reverence calls "Buddha of Compassion" those
Bodhisattvas who, having reached the rank of an Arhat [i.e., have completed
the 4th or 7th Path ], refuse to pass into the Nirvanic state or "don the
Dharmakaya robe and cross to the other shore," as it would then become
beyond their power to assist men even so little as Karma permits. They
prefer to remain invisibly ( in Spirit, so to speak ) in the world, and
contribute toward man's salvation by influencing them to follow the Good
Law, i.e., lead them on the Path of Enlightenment. It is part of the
exoteric Northern Buddhism to honor all such great characters as Saints, and
to offer even prayers to them...the Esoteric teachings countenance no such
thing. There is a great difference between the two teachings. The exoteric
layman hardly knows the real meaning of the word Nirmanakaya--hence the
confusion and inadequate explanations of the Orientalists... The real
teaching is, however this:

The three Buddhic bodies or forms are styled:

1.	Nirmanakaya.

2.	Sambhogakaya.

3.	Dharmakaya.

The first is that ethereal form which one would assume when leaving his
physical he would appear in his astral body -- having in addition all the
knowledge of an /adept. The Bodhisattva develops it in himself as he
proceeds on the Path. Having reached the goal and refused its fruition, he
remains on Earth, as an Adept; and when he dies, instead of going into
Nirvana, he returns in that glorious body he has woven for himself,
invisible to uninitiated mankind, to watch over and protect it...Thus, to be
enabled to help humanity, an Adept who has won the right to Nirvana
"renounces the Dharmakaya body" in mystic parlance; keeps of the
Sambhogakaya only the great and complete knowledge, and remains in his
Nirmanakaya body. The Esoteric School teaches that Gautama Buddha, with
several of his Arhats, is such a Nirmanakaya, higher than whom, on account
of the great renunciation and sacrifice for mankind, there is none known.)"
VOICE 77-8 & fn


  
THE FINAL CHOICE OF THE BODHISATTVA


"Now bend thy head and listen well, O Bodhisattva--Compassion speaks and
saith: "Can there be bliss when all that lives must suffer ? Shalt thou be
saved and hear the whole world cry ?

Now thou hast heard that which was said.

Thou shalt attain the seventh step and cross the gate of final knowledge,
but only to wed woe--if thou would'st be Tathagata, follow upon they
predecessor's steps, remain unselfish till the endless end.

Thou art enlightened--choose thy way."	VOICE 78




COMPASSION, LOVE AND SYMPATHY AS VIEWED UNIVERSALLY



Arjuna:-- "As I am of a disposition which is affected with compassion

and the fear of doing wrong, I ask thee [Krishna] which is it better to do ?
...

Krishna:--	"Thou grievest for those that may not be lamented, whilst
thy 
sentiments are those of the expounders of the letter of the law. Those who
are wise in spiritual things grieve neither for the dead nor for the living.
I myself never was not, nor thou, nor all the princes of the earth; nor
shall we ever hereafter cease to be. As the lord of this mortal frame
experienceth therein infancy, youth, and old age, so in future incarnations
will it meet the same. One who is confirmed in this belief is not disturbed
by anything that may come to pass..."	GITA 10-11



"Although philosophy seems dry to most people, and especially to minds in
the Western world who are surrounded by the rush of their new and quite
undeveloped civilization, yet it must be taught and understood...In many
places emotional goodness is declared to exceed in value the calmness that
results from a broad philosophical foundation...Strength without knowledge,
and sympathetic tears without the ability to be calm,--in fine, faith
without works--will not save us...The greatest of the Ancients inculcated by
both symbols and books the absolute necessity for the acquirement of
philosophical knowledge, inasmuch as strength or special faculties are
useless without it... For strength when destitute of the ruling aid of
wisdom, is overcome by stupid astonishment confusing all things together;
and for the purpose of action the intellect is useless when it is deprived
of strength. So, whether our strength is that of sympathy or of astral
vision, we will be confounded if philosophical knowledge be absent... 

Sympathy and emotion are as much parts of the great whole as knowledge, but
inquiring students wish to know all that lies in the path. The office of
sympathy, charity, and all other forms of goodness, so far as the effect on
us is concerned, is to entitle us to help. By this exercise we inevitably
attract to us those souls who have the knowledge and are ready to help us to
acquire it also. But while we ignore philosophy and do not try to attain to
right discrimination, we must pass through many lives, many weary treadmills
of life, until at last little by little we have been forced, without our
will, into the possession of the proper seeds of mental action from which
the crop of right discrimination may be gathered." ... "There is only one
life, one consciousness. It masquerades under all the different forms of
sentient beings, and those varying forms with their intelligences mirror a
portion of the One Life, thus producing in each a false idea of egotism. A
continuance of belief in that false ego thus delaying salvation. The
beginning of the effort to dissipate this false belief is the beginning of
the Path; the total dissipation of it is the perfection of Yoga, or union
with God. The entry upon that Path cannot be made until resignation is
consummated..."
GITA NOTES 41-44



COMPASSIONATE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT -- 
UNIVERSAL LIKE AKASA, LIGHT, LIFE FOR ALL


"He who does not practice altruism; he who is not prepared to share his
last morsel with a weaker of poorer than himself; he who neglects to help
his brother man, of whatever race, nation, or creed, whenever and wherever
he meets suffering, and who turns a deaf ear to the cry of human misery; he
who hears an innocent person slandered, whether a brother theosophist or
not, and does not undertake his defense as he would undertake his own--is no
theosophist."

"For practical purposes: if we are developing the child-heart; if we are
learning to love things beautiful; if we are becoming more honest and plain
and simple; if we are beginning to sense the sweet side of life; if we are
getting to like our friends better and extending the circle; if we feel
ourselves expanding in sympathy; if we love to work for Theosophy and do
not ask position as a reward; if we are not bothering too much about
whether we are personal or impersonal--this is traveling on the path of
impersonality." F.P. 127-8


"Perfection, to be fully such, must be born out of imperfection, the
incorruptible must grow out of corruptible, having the latter as its vehicle
and basis and contrast." S D II p. 95


CRITERIA OF PROGRESS


"Desire wisdom; love all men; do your duty; forget yourself; let each
thought and act of your life have for its aim the finding of divine wisdom;
strive to apply that wisdom for the good of other men. If you search in
every direction, Light must come to you. Let the place in which you are be
the lonely room you speak of, and seek to find in everything the meaning.
Strive to know what they are, and by what governed or caused. This is the
first step. Life your life with this ever before you. Purify your thought
as well as your body. Reason all you can, feel all with your heart you may,
and when intellect and heart fail you, seek for something higher. This is
the A.B.C.;..."	WQJ Art II 462


"He who seeth the Supreme Being existing alike imperishable in all
perishable things, sees indeed."... (98) "...when he realizes perfectly that
all things whatsoever in nature are comprehended in the ONE, he attains to
the Supreme Spirit. This Supreme Spirit...even when it is in the body,
neither acteth nor is it affected by action, because, being without
beginning and devoid of attributes, it is changeless. As the all-moving
Akasa by reason of its subtlety passeth everywhere unaffected, so the
Spirit, though present in every kind of body, is not attached to action nor
affected. As a single sun illuminateth the whole world, even so doth the
One Spirit illumine every body..."	GITA 98


"...hear my certain decision (122)...upon this matter if disinterested
forsaking, which is declared to be of three kinds... Deeds of sacrifice, of
mortification, and of charity are not to be abandoned, for they are proper
to be performed, and are the purifiers of the wise. But even these works
are to be performed after having renounced all selfish interest in them and
in their fruits; this, O son of Pritha, is my ultimate and supreme
decision. The abstention from works that are necessary and obligatory is
improper; the not doing of such actions is due to delusion springing from
the quality of tamas. The refraining from works because they are painful
and from the dread of annoyance ariseth from the quality of rajas which
belongs to passion, and he who thus leaves undone what he ought to do shall
not obtain the fruit which comes from right forsaking. The work which is
performed...because it is necessary, obligatory, and proper, with all
self-interest therein put aside and attachment to the action absent, is
declared to be of the quality of truth and goodness which is known as
sattva.

The true renouncer, (123) full of the quality of goodness, wise and exempt
from all doubt, is averse neither to those works which fail nor those which
succeed. It is impossible for mortals to utterly abandon actions; but he
who gives up the results of action is the true renouncer..." GITA 123-4


GOOD and EVIL


"Good and Evil are twins, the progeny of Space and Time, under the sway of
Maya. Separate them, by cutting off one from the other, and they will both
die. Neither exists per se, since each has to be generated and created out
of the other, in order to come into being; both must be known and
appreciated before becoming objects of perception, hence, in mortal mind,
they must be divided."	S D II p. 96


"Passion and desire together with the astral model-body are common to men
and animals, as also to the vegetable kingdom, though in the last but
faintly developed...the brute in us is made of the passions and the astral
body. The development of the germs of Mind made man because it constituted
the great differentiation. The God within begins with Manas or mind, and it
is the struggle between this God and the brute below which Theosophy speaks
of and warns about.

The lower principle is called "bad" because by comparison with the higher it
is so, but still it is the basis of action. We cannot rise unless self
first asserts itself in the desire to do better.  

In this aspect it is called rajas or the active bad quality, as
distinguished from tamas, or the quality of darkness and indifference.

Rising is not possible unless rajas is present to give the impulse, and by
use of this principle of passion all the higher qualities are brought to at
last so refine and elevate our desires that they may be continually placed
upon truth and spirit,

By this Theosophy does not teach that the passions are to be pandered to or
satiated, for a more pernicious doctrine was never taught, but the
injunction is to make use of the activity given by the fourth principle so
as to ever rise and not to fall under the dominion of the dark quality that
ends with annihilation, after having begun in selfishness and 
indifference."	Ocean, 49-50


"...that which is desire, instinctive impulse in the lower, becomes thought
in the Higher. The former finds expression in acts, the latter in words.
Esoterically, thought is more responsible and punishable than act. But
exoterically it is the reverse. Therefore, in ordinary human law, an
assault is more severely punished than the thought or intention, i.e., the
threat, whereas Karmically it is the contrary."	Trans. 142
(see also Key 116, HPB Art II 91)
[ Krishna on the origin of evil - rajas and tamas. G N 94-96,
198-9, 216-217 ]


"Individual spirit or Purusha is said to be the cause of experiencing pain
and pleasure [through the connection with nature found in the instrument];
for spirit, when invested with matter or prakriti experienceth the qualities
that proceed from prakriti; its connection with these qualities [and
self-identification with them] is the cause of its rebirth in good and evil
wombs." Gita p. 96


"Perfection, to be fully such, must be born out of imperfection, the
incorruptible must grow out of corruptible, having the latter as its vehicle
and basis and contrast." S D II p. 95

	

EVIL


"EVIL"	"Ancient wisdom alone solves the presence of the universal fiend in
a satisfactory way. It attributes the birth of Kosmos and the evolution of
life to the breaking asunder of primordial, manifested Unity, into
plurality, or the great illusion of form. Homogeneity, having transformed
itself into Heterogeneity, contrasts have naturally been created; hence
sprang what we call Evil, which thence forward reigned supreme in this "Vale
of Tears."...(125) The Eastern pantheist, whose philosophy teaches him to
discriminate between Being or Esse and conditioned existence...knows he can
put an end to form alone, not to being--and that only on this plane of
terrestrial illusion...he knows that by killing out in himself Tanha (the
unsatisfied desire for existence, or the "will to live")--he will thus
gradually escape the curse of rebirth and conditioned existence...as a
personality... believing but in One Reality, which is eternal Be-ness, the
"causeless Cause" from which he has exiled himself into a world of forms, he
regards the temporary and progressing manifestations of it in the state of
Maya (change or illusion), as the greatest evil...but at the same time as a
process in nature, as unavoidable as are the pangs of birth. It is the only
means by which he can pass from the limited and conditioned lives of sorrow
into eternal life, or into that absolute "Be-ness," which is so graphically
expressed in the Sanskrit work sat. [Glos. p.292] ... The idea that matter
and its Protean manifestations are the source and origin of universal evil
is a very old one...Gautama Buddha...the great Indian Reformer...who
sacrificed himself for Humanity by living for it, in order to save it, by
teaching men to see in the sensuous existence of matter misery alone, ...
his efforts were to release mankind from too strong an attachment to life,
which is the chief cause of Selfishness--hence the creator of mutual pain
and suffering...(126) Even in India, the primitive thought underlying the
formula already cited, had been disfigured by Sectarianism, and has led to
the ritualistic, purely dogmatic observances of the Hatha Yogis, in
contradistinction to the philosophical Vedantic Raja Yoga."
-- HPB The Origin of Evil HPB Art I 124	


"Can a man go against the general will of nature and escape destruction, and
also be able to desire wickedly with knowledge, and accomplish, through
will, what he wishes?

Such a man can do all these--except to escape destruction. That is sure to
come, no matter at how remote a period.

He acquires extraordinary knowledge, enabling him to use powers for selfish
purposes during immense periods of time, but at last the insidious effect of
the opposition to the general [38] true will make itself felt and he is
destroyed forever. [the "personality"]

.wickedly desiring people, having great knowledge, increase to an enormous
extent and threaten the stability of the world. Then the adherents of the
good law can no longer quietly work on humanity, but come out in force, and
a fight ensues in which the black magicians are always destroyed, because
the good Adepts possess not only equal knowledge with the bad ones, but have
in addition the great assistance of the general will of nature which is not
in control of the others, and so it is inevitable that the good should
triumph always. This assistance is also the heritage of every true student,
and may be invoked by the real disciple when he has arrived at and passed
the first abyss."  
WQJ G. Notes p. 37-8


"On the ruins of the altar has arisen the temple of the lower self, the
shrine of the personal idea...in America, being totally unrestrained and
forming in fact the basis of independence here, it has culminated...Its bad
effects [are as yet, vaguely shadowed]...after sweeping away the fetters
forged by priestly dogma and kingly rule, we find springing up a
superstition for worse than that [88] which we have been used to call by the
name. It is the superstition of materialism that bows down to a science
which leads only to a negation...[92] [Krishna] makes it very clear that he
refers to the principle of reciprocity or Brotherhood. And this he declares
must be kept revolving; that is, each human being must live according to
that rule, or else he lives a life of sin to no purpose...that which moves
the people...on the contrary, [they are] spurred by the personal selfish
idea of each one becoming better, greater, higher than his neighbor. If
continued unchecked it would make this nation one entirely of Black
Magicians. And it was to counter act this that the T S was founded, with
the object of inducing men to one more revolve this wheel of Brotherly Love,
first set in motion by the "Creator when of old he had created mortals."
G. Notes, pp. 87-8 91-2


"Personality is always an illusion (a rock upon which many persons fall to
pieces), a false picture hiding the reality inside.	G. Notes 109


"When a man uses the powers of nature indiscriminately with partiality and
no regard to justice, it is Black Magic...Magic is power over the forces of
nature...the first exercise of Black Magic is to psychologize people."
Letters, 161
	

USING CYCLES -- EACH HAS TO WILL AND DO IT FOR HIMSELF.


"Good resolutions are mind-painted pictures of good deeds: fancies,
day-dreams, whisperings of the Buddhi to the Manas. If we encourage them
they will not fade away like the dissolving mirage in the Shamo desert, but
grow stronger and stronger until one's whole life becomes the expression and
outward proof of the divine motive within...In the eyes of the "Masters" no
one is ever "utterly condemned." As the lost jewel may be recovered from
the very depths of the tank's mud, so can the abandoned snatch himself from
the mire of sin, if only the precious Gem of Gems, the sparkling germ of the
Atma, is developed. Each of us must do that for himself, each can if he but
will and persevere...Your acts in the past...cannot be obliterated, for they
are indelibly stamped upon the record of Karma, and neither tears nor
repentance can blot the page. But you have the power to more than redeem
and balance them by future acts. Around you are acquaintances, friends, and
associates...who have committed the same and even more grievous faults,
thro' the same ignorance...Show them the dreadful consequences of it, point
them to the Light, lead them to the Path, teach them, be a missionary of
love and charity, thus in helping others win your own salvation. There are
innumerable pages of your life record still to be written up, fair and blank
they are as yet...seize the diamond pen and inscribe them with the history
of noble deeds, days well-spent, years of holy striving, So will you win
your way ever upward to the higher planes of spiritual consciousness. Fear
not, faint not, be faithful to the ideal you can now dimly see...Learn to
look at men below the surface, and to neither condemn nor trust on
appearances." --K.H.
Letters from the Masters of Wisdom, p. 60-2

		

SELFISHNESS, AND THE STUDY OF OCCULTISM: DANGER


"The student of occultism is rushing on his destiny...up to a certain point
that destiny is in his own hands, though he is constantly shaping its course
[either] freeing his soul from the trammels of sense and self, or [second]
becoming entangled in the web...which will presently clothe him as with a
garment without seam...

,,,let him remember that at every step [his chains] grow more tyrannical,
and often before the goal is reached where the ways divide, the battle is
lost or won...that decision once made is irrevocable...Man lives at once in
two worlds: the natural and the spiritual, and...he influences his
associates, and is in turn influenced by them, so let him not imagine that
in the spiritual plane he is alone.

This will be a fatal mistake for the dabbler in magic, or the student in
occultism. Throughout this vast universe, the good will seek the good, and
the evil the evil, each will be unconsciously drawn to its own kind.

But when man faces his destiny in full consciousness of the issues
involved...he will be no longer unconscious of these influences, but will
recognize his companions: companions, alas! no longer.

[ If the path of selfishness was chosen, he now sees ] Masters now,
inhuman, pitiless; and the same law of attraction which has led him along
the tortuous path, unveils its face, and by affinity of evil, the slave
stands in the presence of his master, and the fiends that have all along
incited him to laugh at the miseries of his fellow men, and trample under
his feet every kindly impulse, every tender sympathy, now make the
measureless hells within his own soul resound with their laughter at him,
the poor deluded fool whose selfish pride and ambition have stifled and at
last obliterated his humanity.

Blind indeed is he who cannot see why those who are in possession of arcane
wisdom, hesitate in giving it out to the world, and when in the cycles of
time, its day has come, they put forth the only doctrine which has power to
save and bless, Universal Brotherhood, with all that the term implies...

The purpose of Theosophy is to eradicate these evil tendencies [
selfishness, pride, lust for power ] of man, so that whether on the ordinary
planes of daily life, or in the higher occult realms, the Christ shall be
lifted up, and draw all men unto him..."	WQJ Articles, I pp. 338-339



"MARA (Sk.) The god of Temptation, the Seducer who tries to turn away
Buddha from his PATH. He is called the "Destroyer" and "Death" (of the
Soul). One of the names of Kama, God of love." T. GLOS., 206
( see also SD II 579, Glos 170, "Karabtanos" Glos 173)




RAJA YOGA


"RAJA-YOGA (Sk.)	The true system of developing psychic and spiritual
powers and union with one's Higher Self--or the Supreme Spirit, as the
profane express it. The exercise, regulation and concentration of thought.
Raja-Yoga is opposed to Hatha-Yoga, the physical or psycho-physiological
training in asceticism."	T. Glos, p. 275


"...the Occult law, which prescribes silence upon the knowledge of certain
secret and invisible things perceptible only to the spiritual mind (the 6th
sense), and which cannot be expressed by "noisy" or uttered
speech...Pranayama, or regulation of the breath in Yoga practices. This
mode, however, without the previous the previous acquisition of the two
higher senses, of which there are seven, as will be shown, pertains rather
to the lower Yoga. The Hatha so called was and still is discountenanced by
the Arhats. It is injurious to the health and alone can never develop into
Raj Yoga."	HPB - SD I 95


"Raj Yoga encourages no sham, requires no physical postures. It has to deal
with the inner man whose sphere lies in the world of thought. To have the
highest ideal placed before oneself and strive incessantly to rise up to it,
is the only true concentration recognized by Esoteric Philosophy which deals
with the inner world of noumena, not the outer shell of phenomena. ... The
first requisite for it is through purity of heart...A cultivation of the
feeling of unselfish philanthropy is the path which has to be traveled for
that purpose. For it is that alone which will lead to Universal Love, the
realization of which constitutes the progress towards deliverance from the
chains forged by Maya around the Ego."	--D. K. MAVALANKAR.	THEOS.
ARTICLES AND NOTES, p. 43



"Know ye not ye are Gods ?" -- Jesus asked his disciples.
John 1.12 Isis I, p.2

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Best wishes,


Dallas

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-----Original Message-----

From: Raghu 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:47 AM
To: 
Subject: Love is Hate !


What is love ? It is filling up one's esteem by praising / speaking good
words about him. What will happen, then ? The person's ego starts getting
filled up - it enlarges and by the time he leaves u, he is left feeling that
he is on top of the world and that everything is due to him - no criticism !

I would like to equate a good mind to a plane surface. Love / Hate is going
to be like Mercury - they will simply keep rolling without sticking on to
the surface. The real man simply keeps walking - love or hate !

Thermodynamics experts say that cold is a form of heat ! -5 degree celsius
is also heat - Cold is only a comparitive definition - not absolute.
Similarly, Love is a form of hate. Love / Hate create craters on the surface
and slowly enlarge them - necessitating it to be filled up. Those who are
affectionate, do this wrong - They make the person elated & overfed - they
make him expect more out of people & leave him depressed and disappointed,
in the end.

Any comments ??
Raghu