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[bn-study] Re: Divine Wind

Apr 29, 2004 06:15 PM
by ali_haq_hassan


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@e...> 
wrote:


> Thursday, April 29, 2004


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> Dear A:


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> There are as I see it in THEOSOPHY two laws operating:


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> 1.	Karma of the individual which faces him with the decision to 
kill or


> not to kill. Some who believe in peace have adopted "CONSCIENTIOUS


> OBJECTION and have taken the subsequent martyrdom of ostracism, 
torture or


> worse -- even death.


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> 2	All decisions are choices and even "going with the flow" does 
not


> relieve anyone from Karmic consequences.


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> The strength we need to gain is that which refuses to hurt or harm 
anyone no


> matter hat the provocation.


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> Best wishes,


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> Dallas


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> -----Original Message-----


> From: ali_


> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:30 PM


> To: 


> Subject: [bn-study] Re: Divine Wind


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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Dallas TenBroeck" 
<dalval14@e...> 


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> > Wednesday, April 28, 2004


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> > -----Original Message-----


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> > From: Etzion B


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> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:58 AM


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> > To: study@b...


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> > Subject: [bn-study] Re: Divine Wind


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> > What I have learnt, is when a person kills another person, he 
takes 


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> > himself the sanskaras/impressions of that person. Presumably, the 


> *victim*


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> > is the real winner here, bacause his karmic burden has been 


> lessened, while


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> > the karmic burden of the killer grew. A person who kills in order 
to 


> protect


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> > another person or his country, and doing it without any trace of 


> anger, can


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> > help the other side to lessen its karmic burden, while he himself 


> don't


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> > contract any further karma. This is very rare. I of course, don't 


> know the


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> > personal fate of those Japanese pilots. They were ordered to do 
so, 


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> > were not volunteers. The burden in such a case, falls on the heads 


> of those


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> > who gave the orders. Etzion


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> > ----- Original Message ----- 


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> > From: L.R. <mailto:liberty722980@y...> Andrews 


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> > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:41 PM


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> > Subject: [bn-study] Divine Wind


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> > Dear Friends,


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> > With regard to suicide and its consequences in the hereafter, 
would 


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> > example a Kami Kaze (Divine Wind) pilot who deliberately crashed 
his


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> > aircraft into an enemy ship, necessarily be in torment after death 


> because


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> > he "committed suicide?" It would seem that many if not most of the 


> Japanese


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> > suicide pilots of World War II had the noblest of intentions when 


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> > unselfishly gave up their lives for their homeland.


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> > Thanks for your comments,


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> Cases of war are special circumstances. From what I understand, they 


> involve group (national) karma as well as individual karma. A person 


> like the kamikaze pilots who sacrificed his life willingly believing 


> it to be in defense of his homeland would not suffer ill karmic 


> effects.


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> As HPB mentions, motive is EVERYTHING, even supplanting belief. So, 


> if these men drove their planes in a rage of hatred for the 
Americans, 


> their afterlife would be more difficult. There are, to this day, a 
few 


> entitities from that war still working out their intense feelings 


> close to the physical plane.


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> A person in a war scenario who sacrifices his life by throwing his 


> body on a grenade to save his comrades goes into a very high state, 


> afaik. He has put his own individual survival aside for his fellow 


> man.


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> Case in point: Twin Towers attacks- a scenario for your 


> consideration:


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> The victims on the planes, in the buildings, etc, were, generally 


> speaking, ushered into their devachan state, being energetically 


> shielded from the excruciating effects of emotional relationships of 


> grieving survivors, etc. Once one is out of the physical, yet still 


> connected to this plane, the intensity of those feelings can be 


> devastating.


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> The suicide bombers went to a different state of existence- one of 


> intense fury, anguish- no 90 virgins awaiting them, but severe 


> emotional replaying of their last hour(s), remorse, etc.


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> The firemen and rescue volunteers who went into the building 


> selflessly with no thought of their own personal safety, and 


> subsequently gave up their lives for others; were ushered up that 


> evening in a wonderful pillar of Light that formed over Manhattan to 


> their atmic Oneness...and beyond.


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> regards-


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> Ali


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