Comments - AN ANALYSIS OF THE EMOTION OF FEAR - Theosophy.Net2024-03-29T01:18:34Zhttps://theosophy.net/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3055387%3ABlogPost%3A122639&xn_auth=noVery nice post and comment he…tag:theosophy.net,2013-09-08:3055387:Comment:1301102013-09-08T19:30:51.288ZPaigehttps://theosophy.net/profile/AyoCarter
<p>Very nice post and comment here Hari. I am glad I had a chance to read this; seriously. </p>
<p>Very nice post and comment here Hari. I am glad I had a chance to read this; seriously. </p> Dear Jessica,
You h…tag:theosophy.net,2013-03-31:3055387:Comment:1227952013-03-31T03:30:54.433ZHari Menonhttps://theosophy.net/profile/HariMenon
<p>Dear Jessica,</p>
<p> You have to understand this in the wider context , you cannot hate the man - he is living his life as everyone else , The fact that the world and what we call ourselves and the waking and dream states are non existent , makes the man just right for living . Of course all are culpable of false identity including children and parents and all things including animals - so it is natural - but unfortunately the Intellect always has a movement towards Truth and not…</p>
<p>Dear Jessica,</p>
<p> You have to understand this in the wider context , you cannot hate the man - he is living his life as everyone else , The fact that the world and what we call ourselves and the waking and dream states are non existent , makes the man just right for living . Of course all are culpable of false identity including children and parents and all things including animals - so it is natural - but unfortunately the Intellect always has a movement towards Truth and not to any other direction .Now the so called seeker of Truth cannot claim superiority Jessica , since he is also living under a false identity - Just because he is aware or knows that he is actually a false identity does not make him superior to another - for one has to be a Wise man for this identity to vanish and the Wise man sees everyone as himself and himself in everyone so there are no differences. The Die hard seeker is a hypocrite if he claims that he alone is aware of the truth and not others - Everyones Intellect works towards the Truth , and it is only a wrong notion that one believes one is the body - Just as a person will see a snake in the rope . It has only value in error as long as one is alive - when a man dies , he does not carry his life and works Jessica , It works in reverse - Say a person has gained to some spiritual progress i this life and has knowledge of the Truth , now when he /she dies what follows are these good karmas which will be the basis for the next life , since the intellect does not gain anymore in knowledge after death , the person has no way of gaining knowledge for the growth of the intellect - in other words a person is born with the Samskaras of the previous intellect - the question naturally arises what about the other impressions (the bad ones or mixed actions ) - here you have to note that - the person is born with the Intellect (good samskaras) - But is placed in those surroundings which will provide the circumstances for the fructifying of his balance character . You have to understand that - (just by way of illustration )</p>
<p>Say a person has an intellect which is spiritually developed by about 25% in one avatar , and he dies - he goes with this and is born in surroundings which will provide the material for the fructifying of the balance 75% which are mixed and bad proclivities . Again the person has a good attitude and develops his intellect that in this new avatar his intellect progresses from 25 % to %50% - then obviously on passing away , his next avatar will be in circumstances which will help in the fructifying of the balance 50% . It is spiritual knowledge alone which accompanies a person , the rest that accompany are base tendencies like anger , lust, greed , misery etc which are common - obviously the good will regulate the inccidence of the bad in each life . This is not a formula , but I am only illustrating how the thing works in reverse - just as in inference and reasoning . Obviously 100-25=75 and 100-50=50 . It is moot whether you say a man has been born with 30% good tendencies only and leave the rest for inference , or you say a man is 70% bad . Either way it works out the same . Nobody carries the precise experience with him - the general tendencies accompany a person in more or less degree , that is all . The Intellect will regulate how much of stupidity a person will suffer or not by its tendency to move to the Truth . It is simple .</p>
<p>In meeting a wise man , they have the capability to annhilate ignorance , and confer knowledge - which may or may not go unnnoticed by the seeker - it is upto the seeker to act cleverly and intelligently to exploit such a blessing and make it into experience and knowledge and release himself .</p>
<p>I used illustration in the main post to get the point home - By Lying I did not mean even in thought to imply that the person in the illustration is a Liar (the way it is popularly understood in common usage and custom ) - Lie does not matter in life Jessica - The world itself actually is a lie and exists only as an idea . we see the foreground and not the back ground that is all - so it really does not suit to call any one a liar , or truthful in a way of speaking - Compassion and understanding is called for , not castigation for it is not easy to get pulled out of quicksand without having someone on firm ground who can actually throw a life line and pull up the person.</p>
<p>The annhilation of the will what we percieve is actually to be seen in reverse - If a man acts in the feeling that he is the body , obviously he acts as agent and not as principle , and agency will arise in the intellect , Agency will end end when the person loses his sense of doing or proprietorship and obviously he has no actions and the cosmic will acts - it dissipates his balance base karmas , and the man will by indications and circumstances that happen to him understand what is left and how much more he will live . He acquires the ability to postpone death by postponing the last karma which he is required to do at whichs end he will give up the body . It depends some do it others give up that right also . It is an action of the infinite that is all. </p>
<p>One can make a new destiny for oneself - only if one can surmount the past tendencies by knowledge . knowledge destroys the very seed of ignorance . Speaking the truth, Ethics , Compassion, Peace,Universal Love etc need not be acted or thought out - these are divine qualities which arise normally within a person as they progresses in purity - It is there in all only the base tendencies have to be erased , what is true will never go , what is untrue will always have an ending - which is why once real progress is made in each life in the life of the spirit it is permanent and will never go since it is yourself , the others which are base tendencies will vanish on its own like shadows fading away . </p>
<p>There is nothing to judge in the world or in another person - what to say when the living conditions of the world are a lie itself , like a shadow ? Who to Blame and how ? . The Holy bible is quite clear on this point also it does say quite rightly "Judge not , that ye be judged yourself " . The difficulty in believing that the world is false lies with the past tendencies within ourselves which do not allow us to see the truth , tremendous strength is required to withstand this flow of tendencies which we "Call and Know as ourselves" at present.</p>
<p>You should never hold the idea that everyone is lying - that would make you a bigger lair would it not ? for unconsciously we will believe that we are better than others - To call one person a liar is to imply others all are good and to call one person good is to imply all others are bad - in thought also we have to be careful of the implied and expressed meanings of thinking (not the uttered ) . And always we have to be aware that when we say something we are also included in the statement - it is not excluding us . We cannot distance ourselves in mind and then make statements on others or the world - then it means that "I am one" and "he is another" - this very wrong . I am not pontificating Jessica - I am only trying to drive home our subtle nature of ourselves , obviously if you are clever you can easily connect the rest . The eliminating of white noises in thought clears up our own intellect , and it can only be done by reasoning and self control , but the lovely part is that we need not eternally struggle , once knowledge of the thing or idea is correctly grasped with firmness , then there is no effort - knowledge will do the rest . This is Buddhi Yoga - the world (intellect) works for you through knowledge - nothing need be done , your senses and mind bring all the things to you yourself in order to preserve you till the karmas are exhausted . Actually what is the point in hating anyone or anything - we are all in the world and neither need we accept a thing nor need we reject it . If you examine carefully no body can either accept himself or reject himself or another . They are there just as you and me. I always write from the Cause to the effect and , from Generals - never attach any of my thoughts to your ideas of words - unless you have reworked their scope and ambit and meaning - otherwise the point will be missed . The truth , the will , the lie that I write about are mine alone - you have to rework the concepts you have of the words , my thoughts are an out come of the Universals that I have employed which <em><strong>are axiomatic and does not require proof</strong> </em>. And which are the starting point of my everything . There are no unknown a priori assumptions when I write , This much you have to understand when reading me. </p>