Theos-Talk Archives (August 2006 Message tt00338)

8/10/2006 6:05 AM

 

Let us consider this:

 

“All this, whatsoever moves on earth, is to be surrendered to the Lord ―the Self  [Atma within] . When thou hast surrendered all this; then thou may enjoy.” 

If this be true, then how necessary to consider philosophy so as to be able to cut off the false belief. And how useless to pursue occultism merely for your own benefit. You may know all about currents and polarities, about any and every phenomenon possible in the astral world, but with the death of your body it is lost, leaving to you only the amount of real spiritual advance you happen to have made. But once resign and all is possible. 

This will not ruin your life nor destroy any proper ideals; poor and petty ideals had better be at once lost. It may seem that all ideals are gone, but that will be only the first effect of taking this step. 

We must be ready to say at any moment under whatever circumstances, whether expected or unexpected: 

“It is just what I in fact desired.” For only those ideals can be dissipated which rest upon a lower basis than the highest aim, or which are not in accord with nature's (God's) law. 

And as our aim ought to be to reach the SUPREME CONDITION and to help all other sentient beings to do so also, we must cultivate complete resignation to the Law, the expression and operation of which is seen in the circumstances of life and the ebb and flow of our inner being. 

All that can be gotten out of wealth, or beauty, or art, or pleasure, are merely pools of water found along our path as it wanders through the desert of life. If we are not seeking them their appearance gives us intense pleasure, and we are thus able to use them for our good and that of others just so long as the Law leaves them to us; but when that superior power removes them, we must say: “It is just what I in fact desired.” Any other course is blindness. 

All the passing shows of life, whether fraught with disaster or full of fame and glory, are teachers; he who neglects them, neglects opportunities which seldom the gods repeat. And the only way to learn from them is through the heart's resignation; for when we become in heart completely poor, we at once are the treasurers and disbursers of enormous riches. Krishna then insists on the scrupulous performance of natural duty.  

Some students, as well as critics, have said that theosophy teaches a running away from family and from the world, and that neither knowledge nor salvation can be gained without a ridiculous ASCETICISM which would upset the natural order. 

This is wrong. 

And when it is believed to be a fact― now asserted be me in confidence of support from all real Theosophists ―that the blessed Masters who ordered the founding of are Society constantly read and inculcate the Bhagavad-Gita’s philosophy, we perceive that such assertions against the Society’s aims are incorrect. ―B”     GITA NOTES  45-47

 

 

Dallas

 

-----Original Message-----
From: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Cass Silva
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:49 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World UTOPIA & H.P.B.

 

Carlos,
You wrote, One of the many conclusions we may get to, from studying once and again these superb lines, is that in Esoteric Science merely logical reasoning at the dualistic level is sometimes worse than useless.

Cass: Logical reasoning at the dualistic level is sometimes worse than useless.As stated by me, I believe her lines refer specifically to logical reasoning. 
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> Only an expanded consciousness can grasp the esoteric view of life, a view which includes both outer dualism and contrast, and inner unity and harmony. 

Cass: Higher Manas sits like the dweller waiting for lower manas to rise not the other way around. My understanding is that an expanded consciousness is no longer in the realms of duality and sees the whole rather than the part. Therefore understanding is spontaneous and non judgemental.

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> Indeed, it is by acknowledging our own individual co-responsibility for the future of mankind, nay, of all beings, that we get to be able to really learn what is Theosophy about : universal compassion. 

Cass: I imagine that you are referring to our thought processess contributing to the mass karma of the planet and in that way we are co-responsible for all wars etc. . However, the masters avoid this co-responsibility by letting the karmic children play out the scenarios they have engendered by their incorrect thinking, usually brought about by misconstrued religious ideals. What about the pacifists who wish nothing more than peace, are they karmically tied to wars and suffering perpetrated by others? Surely universal compassion means an understanding of loving thine enemies, a forgive them for what they no not what they are doing?
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> Strangely as it may sound, planetary utopia must begin with everyone of us, and it technically depends on each one’s “Antahkarana”, the bridge between the higher and the lower in individual life.
Cass: All very nice, but idealism at its worse. Antankarana imo is still part of duality. I do not believe that there is a bridge to cross but a cross to bridge.

Cass 
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> (1) “The Beacon of the Unknown”, in “Collected Writing of H.P. Blavatsky”, Vol. XI, first edition, 1973, Theosophical Publishing House, India/England, 632 pp., see pp. 282-283. 
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