Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00780)

May 29 05

Dear M S: 

Our Universe is ONE and SPIRITUAL IN ESSENCE.

We because of many desires make differences and problems.

If we focus on essentials all becomes smooth and easy

That's all that need be said -- but some want to know how that is so.


Dallas
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sufilight
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 6:25 AM
To: Subject: Re: : error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?

Hallo Dallas and all,

My views are:

Dallas I hate to say it, but this email is way to long - filled with to many

words.
So please Dallas: What do you want - or what are trying to tell me ?



from
M. Sufilight

-BNStudy" <
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: RE: error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?

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May 28 2005

Dear M S :

Re: error and misunderstanding -- tolerance ?


In regard to good and evil, we might think and see if this helps at all:


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, 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.

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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