| Sutra 8 from the book Agni Yoga 1929 |
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One can point out why the Teachers of Knowledge experienced such suffering on departing Earth. Of course, this suffering was conscious and voluntary. As the host fills the cup to the brim, so does the Teacher desire to impress this last sign of His Covenant |
One can point out why the Teachers of Knowledge experienced such suffering on departing Earth. Of course, this suffering was conscious and voluntary. As the host fills the cup to the brim, so does the Teacher desire to impress this last sign of His Covenant. This kind of suffering is nothing like what most people experience. These were Lives lived to the full in continual selfless giving. Their dedication created a great river of life and momentum of the truth of meaning in the hearts of those around them. Their essence, in which they learned to trust explicitly and obediently, their own angel, whose voice they heard and eventually followed, led them into the path which represents the necessary attainments in order to be able to graduate from earth existence, to transcend it, leave it behind and never need to repeat it. Each great Teacher has a Covenant. Each great Epoch is designed to deliver a new step for humanity. He or She has a compact with life, makes a transaction in trust, a treaty with all, a new arrangement and bargain. He or She earns the necessary papers, declares the truth, enters into contract with that truth, lives a vow, undertakes for Himself or Herself and pledges everything to the cause. The Christ is quoted as saying that He merely copied his Father. The exploits of heroes did not occur in a void but after many lives and years of preparation. Of course the Christ had to travel the world and learn great things that others did not know and then put them into practice. I this way He integrated East and West, and the Teacher will again integrate all things. |
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The poisoning of Buddha spared Him from deification. The suffering and resurrection--or the disintegration of matter--by Christ provided the supreme attainment of earthly achievement. |
Today the truth of the situation in our world is not only excessively complex but also its essence is buried deep in ignorance and under the thick blanket of disinformation. Humanity is in peril in a great number of ways. If this were not serious enough, almost all of humanity is being misled about the nature of the true peril and so is made to combat a non-existent enemy. The world itself is under threat and what the Teacher would and must do is declare the truth of the good and the truth of the bad, and so educate people in order to rectify the enterprises of good people. I speak of the Teacher because today we must embody what the Teacher comes to bring. The Teacher will not work alone, He never has. But He will inspire and empower many of us with the truth. And so we must assist, if we can, by declaring truth to the world. |
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The slander of the old world is of no consequence. Each authentic achievement is needed for Cosmos. The creation of an achievement is like each process of creation. In augmenting the profundity of the form we create an ageless crystal. The sense of perfection uplifts the spirit of creative manifestations. Christ, being a realist, desired that the phenomenon of disintegration should be preceded by an attainment in complete consciousness. |
Authentic achievement is based on a rich foundation of scholarship and research, as well as a life of devotion, daring and sensitivity. All who struggle for justice and the hastening of the triumph of truth must be ready at some point to step forward and disregard the consequence. Perfection on Earth is relative in that it must exist in the midst of great imperfection. The greatest imperfection is in human concepts and actions. The life that surrounds and sustains us exhibits a great perfection, he genius of Creation. But humanity chooses to be blind to the implication of the Universe which sustains us and gives us such opportunities. The greatest opportunity afforded us is the chance to grow and learn and by this continue to develop as a life-form. But there are great forces within us and on earth that wish to obscure our understanding and thus retard our development. We may undergo disintegration and death but we can be so connected to the eternal in ourselves that death itself is disintegrated and overcome, as even the Bible states. Whether the life of Jesus was historic to the Biblical letter or a novel composite of the greatest heroes of the ages, his story was a demonstration of a self-sacrificing life of love truth-telling and the overcoming of death itself. We are in the realm of incarnation, of birth and death and a great stage in the development of life from the most primitive to the most advanced. The indestructible spark that descended to fecundate matter in mineral form rose through plants and animals and all that experience is built into this moment when we have the ability to cognize our entire history according to esoterics of our Teachers. For we are at a mid-way point, a transition into a next higher kingdom beyond the human. This is the great challenge today faced by the spiritually alive |
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