Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00041)

May 1 2005

Dear Gerry:

Thanks I think we are generally agreed as usual.

Thanks for additional views.

Dallas
 
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From: Gerald S
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:01 AM
Subject: RE: "just being" and Theosophy

May I add a suggestion ? :

DTB
And add to this mix the spice of compassion, as we labor for the benefit of
the "Monads of lesser experience" (skandhas) who cluster to form our
various sheaths and principles, hoping to secure from their experience in
sharing
our choices, that that will elevate and illumine their "paths" towards a
"spiritual" improvement.


GS
Dal, OK. I am assuming that we have compassion for others. Compassion is
the reason for adding manas. 

DTB
Is it not our MINDS which have to do the deliberate choosing? Are they
Not training themselves to improvement ? 

GS
It is manas that choses to be added or not. But it has to have a reason to
do so, and the desire to return again to help others is such a reason. They
train themselves to gain spiritual insight. I don't know if this is an
"improvement" or not. I guess so.       

DTB
Does this not improve the "Individuality?"  

GS
No, it improves the skandhas because they become purified. Our sense of
individuality comes from atma and our mindstream or mental continuum, which
HPB calls the auric egg and which I simply refer to as the I. We are both
individual and collective simultaneously.

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DTB
I think the questions of duty and of responsibility are also valid here.
We are, it seems to me, involved, every one of us, as immortal pilgrims, in
an ocean of cooperative interaction -- what are the secret Laws of such a
situation? Of course if we are not immortals as Monads, and not able to
improve the whole question disappears. Another Maya ?
Best wishes, 
Dallas 

GS
The secret laws of this manvantara are engraved on the walls of the Great
White Brotherhood for anyone to see when they visit there.

As for "improvement" by which I assume you mean evolutionary development,
the dualistic monad does evolve over many many eons, but the nondual Monad
does not because it is already perfect.

Jerry S.