Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00243)

Dear friends:



Have a look at these ideas and see how they appeal to you'.



Let me know if you will:



Thanks



Dal



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EVIL -- GOOD. DOC



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In a dialog with a friend this answer emerged:









No the Universe is not one of competition, but rather, a comprehension of a
universal fact. All participate in this. Now how can we test this? Can we
divest it of any emotional or personal, selfish attitudes? Can pure thought
be attained?



As I see it, comprehension is a Mind faculty and all have it developed in
various stages. We need to exercise our minds to seek to know anything. It
includes selection, attention, memory, comparison, analysis, re-formation,
and above all an openness to the thoughts and ideas of others - so as to
extract all that is of the ideal and the universal from them. 



I assume we are seeking for not only "a truth," but a formula, or method of
assessing the value of all truths? 



But over anything else, we (as personal minds) have to assure ourselves that
what we learn is valid and universal - of course the ultimate truth is (as I
see it) a profound intuition (a universal certainty, Buddhi perhaps) -- also
called Apara Vidya -- a "knowledge of things in themselves" - as causes.



If so, then, those CAUSES are eternal and ineffaceable energies and powers
which are an integral part of the ONE SUPREME SPIRIT. 



In the effort to grasp these concepts, it is our present personal
consciousness that is transformed, made ineffable (spiritual ?) which in its
purity (free from emotion and Kama), alone, is able to make this transition
- in the words of the Gayatri verse, it becomes that "vase" that surrounds
the absolute SUN of the one SPIRIT - the universal (and the individual)
ATMA. I would say this is the Buddhi, and is made of that spiritualized and
individualized substance (a specialized grouping of 'monads,' called "Suddha
Sattva." ( Glos p. 11) 



And, it is for this reason that our personal and individual "perfection,"
when attained, is an integration of our individual and personal selves. The
temporary "personal" mask-like self of this, and every "incarnation" --
become one with its master "Thread" - the ONE ATMIC SELF -- or, the HIGHER
SELF within each of us. 



Looking at it from the point of view of the Universe - all the billions of
scattered "rays" of that one Divine, reunite (eventually) and CONSCIOUSLY
into ONE. None is "wiped out" or "erased" by Devachan, Sleep or Nirvana.
Together they form that "bundle of sticks" that are the Unity of the Ancient
Spiritual Lodge of the Wise -of the Avatars, the Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas,
the Rishis, the Adepts and the "Elder Brothers" -- the Mahatmas of the Race
and Family of MAN - of the eternal (not the personal) Man. 



To work with (as a brother Immortal) and manifest along side of all other
"points of Spirit involved in Matter," each Spiritual morsel (Ray)
self-consciously adopts a "rising self"-- a unit of "personal
consciousness," which, as a MONAD, is now trying to become fully
SELF-CONSCIOUS. [see S D II 167]



All the rest is a passing show - illusion and maya -- but always recorded
imperishably by the universal scribes the Lipika in the imperishable fabric
/ substance named the Akasa. (yet in its own way and at its own place it
has validity as "Para Vidya.")



We are either "beneath" nor "above," nor "besides" anyone or anything. This
is not pride or selfishness, but a statement of impersonality and
universalism - a fact that only a pure, impersonal SPIRIT can make. 



And, it has to be done only by the "impersonalized and universalized
PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS." It is the final sacrifice (a sacred deed) offered
by every "personal Self" to the ONE PURE SPIRIT of which it recognizes a
Ray in itself as an embodiment - an "Elder Brother." It is ever in our
Higher Nature as the Monad -- ATMA-BUDDHI-MANAS.



"Evil" by definition becomes a denial of this condition and power in us --

is it not a vast error? It opens the "door" to acts,. thoughts, and feelings
that tend to destroy the harmony of universal virtue and law. And of course
every part of universal NATURE rejects and fights such a violation. So we
have the "eternal war" between the Higher SELF, and the "lower selfish, evil
self." [depicted in the BHAGAVAD GITA]



I ask: Isn't the cure today's work -- brotherhood and compassion -- the
giving of ourselves to others and trying to assist wherever we are allowed?



There is nothing we do not do which is not a "service" to another - in some
way. If this is the key to active brotherhood, how do we search and find it?
That is our task and pilgrimage. 



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