Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00249)

Friends, 

What is Ishwara? 

"Ishwara, an ancient name for the Reality, the impersonal, impartite 
Deific Principle which resides in the hearts of all beings and which 
is the Real Man, overshadows the personal man. The personal thinks 
and feels and acts. The Ishwara within the personal man is the 
Perceiver, the unmoved watcher, silent but sentient. The personal 
man is the disciple, the learner, the weary pilgrim, threading his 
way through the paths of life that are strewn with the thorns and 
weeds that he himself has sown in the past, whether in this present 
life or in former lives on earth. The Ishwara, sitting in wakeful 
watchfulness in the cave of the heart, desires the object-involved 
personal man to look up, to see the light of Wisdom, the truth about 
Karmic life, which affects all entities in the manifested universe 
and forms their essential correlation; then, with even an inkling of 
this perception, assume, in the outside, objective world of Maya 
(Illusion), the responsibility of practical harmlessness and 
harmonious living with all beings. Thus is generated that Karma 
which is pleasing to the Ishwara within.  "The Guru is Karma," says 
Mr. Judge in one place."


See more at 

http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7506karma.html . 

It's an article in the magazine "The Theosophical Movement". 


Regards,   Carlos.