I request everybody please stand for the pray I request everyone please raise your hearts to higher place so that we can all work together the work of the higher all together oh hiden every at oh hidden Light My Oh hidden light shining in every creature oh hidden light shining in every
Creature oh hidden love embracing all in Oneness each who feels himself one with the May each who feels himself as one with thee know is also one with every other no he is also one with every other thank you seat good morning and a very warm welcome to the Indian section headquarters
In it is a beautiful day and this is probably one of the most beautiful periods of weather in V which is otherwise quite extreme I’m very happy that you are here in such l a lot of effort has been put put this program together and the person who is leading this effort is
None other than brother Maham he has worked relentlessly for months I believe this was planned way back in July early July since he started working on this and he’s a very good planner every man detail he plant and so this is what he has created and I
Believe he deserves a lot of for all this it’s very nice to meet at least once if not more during the year so that we can all connect with each other we can renew our bonds of friendship and togetherness and enjoy the theosophical atmosphere that we will finding plenty over
Here we have a very nice person that’s going to be droing and ping this study class for the next three years brother NC Krishna yes I’ve been associated with him for the last seven years in the E section and I found to be very knowledgeable very balanced in his
Approach and I think the good part is that whatever he says you can probably take it as the go too because it is a very study discourse that will be presenting I don’t want to take much of your time because it is really brother Krishna that will be with you all these
Days my request to you all is to please keep your mobile if you have not done that you can do it right now just take out your mobile put it on silent mode because it will disturb everyone everyone’s thoughts which have been focused on the subject with great effort by Brother
Krishna I will also Al request everyone to come back in time uh for the different sessions so that we can start them at the right thank you and brother kishna thank you everybody dear and respected brothers and sisters I’m NC Krishna from Hyderabad we’re going to study together
As part of the program which has been announced the way of self- knowledge by Madame r s Bernier the first printed page of the book it gives us information that this is a lecture given by her by rajaj which was called the blavatsky lecture delivered at the annual convention of the theosophical society
In England and this information is available in the book it’s not something which have Googled and found out so the lecture was later not blare okay I’m afraid of the blaring of it’s all right fine not Audible yeah okay the book which you’re going to
Study is the way of self- knowledge by r s berer and uh this was actually a lecture given by her the blit lecture as it was called and that was delivered at the annual Convention of the internation of the theosophical society England and the lecture was later
Produced and printed as a book with the theosophical Publishing House brother SRI Ram who happens to be the father of Madame Bernier his books most of the books which you might see in the philosophical Publishing House were also lectures which were put in the shape of a
Book so many books are there of him except few most of them are lectures given by him so Madam radas berer also had lectured at nardan and all those lectures were produced as one book which was called human regeneration which is her pet topic that was a pet topic and she had
Produce that book or produce those lectures at nard this book is a small book looks very small like at the feet of the master is small and uh we think it’s small so it’s easy to understand but then it’s deceptively simple it’s not simple as it looks similarly this
Book also looks small but as the idiom goes the good things come in small packages that’s what the English idiom says and so we have uh this book which is looking small but is full of wisdom and you will wouch for the wisdom the book rightly contains or conveys after
Perhaps going through the book all by yourself perhaps we’re going to touch only few aspects of the book maybe we can complete we may not complete but then the words I view of the book is given so that each individual when they go through the book they know what
Exactly the author or the speaker speaker meaning rajaj G what she was conveying we are observing the birth Centenary of Madame rajaji she was born on 15th November 1923 so this year being 2023 we are observing the centinary of Madame rajaji and uh in many ways rajaj was a simple straightforward
Person very firm though very firm though what she wanted she conveyed it exquisitly correctly without mincing words this is something which we all notice as we were young were speaking to her or she was speaking to us at the youth lodge and all that we all know that she was our
Seventh International president and she served the philosophical Society with distinction for 33 years she did her best to add value to the work done by our earlier presidents as already mentioned she is the daughter of brother SRI RAM and and another EDM says she’s a chief of the
Old block so she is someone who is very much interested in theosophy from the very young age and prior to this becoming the international president she was the General Secretary you can see the board here she was the General Secretary of the Indian section for about 14 years so brother
Sham lot of sound is coming coming back from this from here 18 okay 18 years I’m I’m I stand corrected 18 years 17 is a good theosophical number so I went for that 17 I’m right or 18 right okay I thought 17 somehow 17 goes well with the TS numbers
So both s and Madame Radha G laate stress and quality of the membership quality of the membership and they used to say Quantity should go up quantity should go up but without diluting the quality this is the dictum the quantity can go up but without the quality being
Diluted she used to give address to the new members in 1 January every year and she would say that used to happen in the headquarters Hall not in the convention place because the convention is closed by then so we used to meet we also used to listen though the address was meant
For new people new members and she would say she would urge the people who have joined to make theosophy into a real it in their lives theosophy should make a difference in their lives this is what she used to say why how if the principles are applied the principles of theosophy are
Applied then she would say the members who join will become not only the members of the theosophical society they will be on the path to become theosophists is a different between member and a theosophist so you take it up seriously apply the principles live the theosophy yes you go forward
As on the path to become a theosophist this is what she used to urge the new members who joined so what are we supposed to do study understand assimilate the essence and and with that Essence lead the right kind of Life stress was on leading the right
Kind of life it is not out of fear you lead the right kind of life because punishment is there so you are acting good that’s not what theosophy expects one to do so it is out of wisdom one leads the right kind of life through wisdom one leads the right kind of Life
Am I disturbing it yeah these bits of valuable information I have given of personal biography details is for those people perhaps who have not seen her alive or perhaps those people who have not got those details into them so this is for their benefit lot of people here
I know who have worked with her and who have moved with her very closely and uh it’s not for them for them it’s carrying C to New Castle so it’s not that it’s for new people perhaps who are assembled here some of them if they do not know Madame Raj it’s
About the information which was given to convey the details what she was and she was such a splendid personality in one one word we can say she was inspiring to say the least and uh I would say by the grace of my maternal grandfather who was also a national lecturer and a joint
General Secretary of the Indian section we were fortunate to live at r as people who are very young in formative period of our life so we lived in the T campus on the TS campus for number of years maybe 15 or 16 years and he was truly that’s me also had
Occasions to work with rajaj and was guided helped by wisdom and her generosity one evening in the year 1972 I was doing my CA apprentiship days I was sent to reach her the next morning a messenger came and told me that Amma wants to see you in the morning I
Said really I said yes you’re supposed to go there so I reached the Bas quarters which was at residence very close to the Sea and uh I was waiting for about 2 three minutes and then she came from other room and she held my hand and said
How are you I said very well Madam how are you she said I’m doing well but I want a help from you I was shocked what help I can do to her and then she said your grandfather if he were to be here per you would have taken care of this
South Conference South Indian conference but since he’s a somewhere touring North India I want you to fill the fill his shoes and be the convenor and uh I was pleasantly surprised I would say and I said you think I can manage you should be confident you are young you
Should be confident that’s one message I got when I was talking to her and then what would you like to have as we were sitting she said tea or coffee I said anything Madam because I don’t want to trouble her or trouble her attendant I said anything don’t you make Choice
Don’t you make right choice she asked me I said I will have coffee that’s good she said this is how you know making choices being absolutely clear about what we supposed to do she she was very very clear as to how people should choose choice and she said I’m going to publish
Your name or send your name to the Indian theosophist get ready to work as convener okay all that was done thanks to her because she guided me at every stage she was there available at ad so the sou conference went off very well for the first time in my life I received
2 rupees delegate fee that was the delegate Fe those days for being a delegate to the South Indian conference so that’s how she drafted me into her work and she guided me and that meeting and the later interactions with her was a huge learning curve for
Me and and she was extremely nice very very generous in her way of introducing me to the people and all that so I was quite fortunate I would say and another occasion another occasion where I would recall my association with her working with her for new life for India
Moment so visited all colleges in the city and uh she would address the girls address the boys and one college Stella Mar College which is for girls when she had dressed and finished they said once more and she said this is not a drama I have conveyed what I have to convey and
That’s it so that’s how effective speaker she was you all know the new life in India was an improvement in what brother Raja had started as Ashok chakra movement and this new life in India movement was for giving proper inputs to youngsters and the right values of citizenship and how to voice your
Opinions youngsters should know how to voice their opinions these were all the training which we got so I struck a personal note I’m sorry I’ve done that because I would like to of course refrain but then talking about Raj and if I don’t mention how I benefited from
Her I thought I should tell what exactly happened between rajaj how she was a teacher to me she was simple as I said loving kind at firm I’ll tell you one small example once we experiencing water shortage at Adar the well which is there that got
Dried up and then she called for the meeting of all the residents we met at the blavy bangalow and she would address all of them and from the time you get up from the bed till you retire to the bed she reviewed all the activities and how
Much water each activity would take can you can you get it that precise she was that precise she was and her Clarity of expl explaining what we had to do to conserve water was amazing so precise she was yes why I’m saying Clarity this book The Way of self- knowledge and Madame
Rania whom we see there has that Clarity has that depth and wisdom which we can experience while studying this book all of you are familiar with bhagavat Gita so there are AAS means so and so and so said this so we have bhagan AA we have
Sanjaya we also have Arjuna so all these waas are so and so and so said this so in this book this small book we have rajaj what she said and hpy madam what she said and the Ed on the Masters what they said so mostly it is their sayings
Which we are perhaps going to understand consider and uh move forward she says this lecture was held in honor of Madame blitzky so talking about Madame litsky rajaj GI says she quotes the words of her teacher teacher means Madame bl’s teacher in the words of a teacher Master M and master KH I’m
Mentioning the names because most of you perhaps are aware of the names of the inner founders of the philosophical Society she meaning hbb was a woman of most exceptional and wonderful endowment Raj G says hbb not only possessed the endowments of qualities which The Ordinary World recognizes HB not only possess the
Endowments and qualities which The Ordinary World recognizes like the artistic capacities she is a great piano player not many know about it or the intellectual Brilliance of Madame blavy they are of course outstanding in nature but mam says Raj G says her perceptive capabilities perception and perceptive capabilities says rajaj to go deeply
Into the subject of human bondage that was something which was astounding so rajaj G says we’ll have to pay homage to her because hbb has given her deep understanding to us about the problem of human bondage and deliverance from the human bondage so HPB has shed
Lot of light on that subject but Raj says we need to understand and find out the method through one’s own exertion she said it you have to study understand exert yourself not simply read and move away saying that yes I know this is normal practice like we go
To school or college this is how we pass exams but here she says Raj G says you have to understand find out the method through one’s own exertion sad exertion is sad evolve one’s own method it’s not copying somebody else’s method evolve one’s own method and rajaj GI says one might
Receive help from the Elder ones or the people who are well informed the wiser guides she he says the wiser people would meaning presumably perhaps when we take one step forward that’s the what the one of the letter says when you take one step forward when we’re exerting
Sincerely when you’re doing the sad sincerely the higher ones the Learned Ones Will perhaps step more towards us and help us to be on the path so it is the holistic life she’s talking about not the compartmentalized life like I have a personal life I have
An official life I have a spiritual life it’s not the compartmentalization is talking about the holistic life the complete togetherness of life as it should be seen that’s what Madame G is suggesting so the teachers of Madame bitki having observed her says Madame rajaj over a period of time found madame
Bitki to be a person with exceptional abilities exceptional abilities that’s what hbb was so hbb hbb sense of commitment and dedication were not comparable incomparable in a way so hbb promised a teacher when she was 20 years old that she would work for the wellfare of humanity because Master said I’m
Going to work for we are going to work for the welfare of humanity would you join us she said yes immediately she said yes and what Master cautioned her she would get more brick mats than bookas she would get she would get more brick pths than bookes
So she said yes and kept her word in spite of of lifethreatening bouts of disease which she had continuously the disease was pestering her but she went on working for the work of her teacher she lived by her word which she gave to the Masters this is a commitment
Perhaps which we all have to perhaps understand and follow in our lives how what the commitment means a lot of people say we say do we have that written on our heart not on a piece of paper or a book it is written on our heart so it’s entirely through her
Efforts we have received the contents of Brahma viya thanks to Madame glitsky we say thanks but we have to be completely be indicted to her because she is the person who who also requested the Masters to write those letters to Mr cette and Mr Hume she was instrumental in it and so
We have that book the mahatma’s letters so there are two sources of theosophy predominant sources one sb’s writings and the second one or the primary one Master’s letters or the mahatma’s letters and she starts her subject propa by saying a quotation again from the voice of the silence to reach
Nirwana one must reach self- knowledge to reach nirwana one must reach self knowledge self knowledge translated into Sanskrit means Atma viya and self- knowledge is loving Deeds of course there is couple of more words but this would make good reading and understanding purposes to reach nirwana one must reach
Self- knowledge and self- knowledge is loving Deeds what is nirwana we will touch upon this briefly we not get into a lot of details Madame blit has written about this extensively in her Magnum orus the sacred Doctrine and in her writings too there’s a lot of reference to Nirvana Nirvana is a buddhistic
Term the voice of the silence for those people who are from Telugu area I’m just giving this information perhaps you know this it is based on a book which was written in telu and she translated it into English there were 93 aums she picked up 39 that’s how the book The
Voice of the silence was made up and this information is only to enthuse people from Tel knowing area so that they pick up the book and make it into a sadh grand his voice of the silence is sad Grand like at the feet of the master
Right in the path the three are called the sadag Gras and during the period of satapati G we had that book published together the three jewels so that was something which we all like to carry simply rather than carries three small books and and uh what exactly nirwana means she says
It is extinction of disappearance Extinction of disappearance of what we’ll go into it it is the highest state a man can reach a state of Enlightenment so what is that we extinguish it is a a Aja means not having the proper knowledge which has all these contents like the Lust For
Life greed hatred etc etc there’s so many things we can add on and in theat Dharma we talk about the six negative qualities kroa MOA M and mats so these are the things which we are supposed to drop so my Guru who taught me ramay he said
60 means when you complete your 60th year the six should go you should become a zero the six should go and you become a zero that’s not that I’m getting into 61st year and celebrate it make it into a Grand Occasion that’s okay six you forget drop them so this six which we
Are talking about should get away or get dropped from from our life so this is the Hindu terminology we are comfortable Sometimes using the Hindu terminology and MOA is another name another word which we use frequently that is Liberation translated into English and staying in conjunction with or Union
With the parab that’s the final thing Moka is Liberation actually from all attachments when he is state where there no attachment perhaps he’s fit enough to go and get back to the source so this comes through sadh one can conquer all this through sadhana so exertion means
That exertion to do away with all that which is not required man lives using his lower quary as we because these all things of IAL Gathering there are some members perhaps who are audience who are non-members yes I would explain to them later but then we are all members of the theosophical
Society we know what is lower coary so the lower coary if we are living We are continuing to live in an ordinary sense of the term but then when man lives or starts living with the higher principle higher Manas and staying there staying there then he gets closer to the plane of
Buddhi and Atma sixth principle and the seventh principle seventh principle has no vehicle so if you are closer to the sixth principle you are catapulted to the seventh Atma has no vehicle buddhi has a vehicle Atma uses the vehicle of the buddhi so if you are nearer to buddhi a
Spike goes from the higher Manus to the budik plane that’s Enlightenment if you go go in there I think your journey is almost completed so this is in brief the principles of Nirvana which she has talked about and we also hear a Sanskrit term budhana budh means The Awakening of the
Intution not the intelligence we’re not talking about intelligence we’re talking about intuition that is the sixth principles faculty so so that is Enlightenment the another term which Madame blit used Parana that is also there in the same book The Secret Doctrine elsewhere also and uh that is where everything
Disappears where everything which is there in existence disappears and the universe merges into that oness from where it came that is the Parana so these are the two terms buddhistic term terms which he has used and getting back to the source getting back to the source so we are all living
Separately we think we are separate we are all connected that connection we are going to establish back through our sad getting back so this is what we are attempting that is the sad we have to do HBP simply adds to reach nirvana one must Attain self- knowledge she says
That simply hbv simply adds to reach nirvana one must attain self- knowledge and that comes that comes when the man’s heart is filled with love and compassion the man’s heart is filled with love and compassion and he gets into the service mode he gets into the service mode
That’s why perhaps that’s old saying man mad perhaps so we can if we are comfortable with that we can use that too this is how the brief introduction which Madam is using her Expressions to tell us how exactly one has to move towards the goal which is getting back to the source
So we’ll go to the first segment which she talked about and one second yes without hesitation Raj says without hesitation HPB said theosophy is not a religion but it is wisdom hyphen religion it’s not a new religion we should not say it’s a religion but it is wisdom hyphen religion there is a
Small there somebody says it’s not audible I don’t know what I should do still come closer okay she came to direct that and she used to address us at the youth launch how to speak how to speak in public so she told us that this should be 12 in from
The your your speaking ability and the grasping ability of the mic they should be distance but I don’t know this new new mic how exactly it works anyway I I suppose audible now right religion we understand normally religion we understand normally as a code of conduct or Dharma as we
Say the average man the average man knows the worldly wisdom the average man knows the worldly wisdom which gives his bread but man doesn’t live on bread alone so there is wisdom beyond the ordinary which has to be approached by serious thinking meditative contemplative students so this is what is expected of a
Student the serious students the thinking students the the meditative students the contemplative students the students are common but these are all the qualities they should have So Divine wisdom another way of putting the same thing Divine wisdom says the key to theosophy the book key to
Theosophy is not wisdom of God we are not talking about the God the capital G we’re not talking about the capital G almighty we’re not talking about that but we’re talking about Gods the small gods or Divine persons or Godly persons that is divine wisdom as for the book The Key
To theosophy Madame blavy who received this wisdom through a series of lessons she received from her spiritual teachers and with their help with their help I’m saying she codified she codified the theosophical wisdom for all of us to understand study and assimilate so that’s why theosophy sometimes is called an occult science Gupta
Shastra so she was instrumental and it is at her request the knowledge is made available to us to give an example of the wisdom religion we have a great banon tree at Adar most of you if you have visited Adar would have seen it it has got a
Trunk huge trunk it has got branches it has also got fruits which goes into the ground again they also become branches again or tick trunks again so this wisdom religion is like the trunk from where all these religions have come up at different EPS of time and some segments of some small small
Divisions of the same religion or those off truths so that’s how we can understand the wisdom religion that’s one way of understanding the wisdom religion imagine the banon tree and the branches and the off truits and the trunk the trunk is the wisdom the off truits are all other religions another
Way of footing it which is there in our literature wisdom religion is the Bedrock of a river the Bedrock of the river which is there which always there doesn’t get destroyed or doesn’t get moved but the water on top of it goes on changing the water goes on changing
Depending on the season or depending on the rainfall so the religions which came later can be compared with those water which comes and which goes another water which comes and goes so the Bedrock Remains the Same so the Bedrock is the wisdom religion and the waters which
Have flown over the Bedrock of the various religions this is how wisdom religion was explained in our literature and uh Madame rajaj is very very careful when she says any amount of study of the literature is only half job done or it’s very Elementary so it’s not that which is
Giving the overall Improvement in oneself it is more the understanding and living the right kind of life which is more important Gathering knowledge having a good library and Gathering knowledge is only half work done this is something Madam rajaj used to say so the pristine ancient truths have been
Unveiled at different epoches of time they are all called various religions so we have seen what wisdom religion is all about and what what we are supposed to do as the second object of the theosophical society is to encourage study of comparative religion encourage study of comparative religion and as
Somebody was mentioning the other day it was the third object which was the main object when it was formed the society was formed that is what the history says to present the Eastern wisdom to the westerners and to explain the Unexplained law of Nature and Powers in
Man that was the first object in 1875 and these objects got restated with the help of the Masters in fact they were instrumented in writing the rewriting because the experiment was on Unity finding the unity bringing all things together so that was the experiment they wanted to do so they
Stated restated the objects and they said we have to form a nucleus of universal Brotherhood without dis of this this this so that was the first object which was restated by Masters in 1979 the first 16 years of the existence of the theosophical society if you read
The history of that period that gives a lot of insights into what really happened at that point of time so this is the wisdom religion or the Gupta vija the sacred wisdom so many names to it so all this is Brahma vija all this is perhaps something which we need to
Understand assimilate and live the right kind of Life Raj gives a quote from the book of Mahatma letters sent to AP Senate letter number 49 of the Adar Edition which is incidentally the baka edition there is another Edition which is edited by Wick Jor and that’s chronological order and
This is the parer Edition the older book which I have taken it from my grandfather so there the 49th letter says the illumination must come from within that’s the quote the illumination must come from within this is there in the book the self- knowledge book that quotation is there
So the obtention or the finding or reaching nearer to the truth is not an external Journey it’s not an external Journey but an internal Journey one has to find the truth all by himself so as we said some time back the lower ctin is taken care of we remain with the fifth principle
The high of Manus and that will take us to illumination so that illumination has to come from within nothing external can help help us no guru externally would be able to help us this is perhaps how we should understand even brother JK so this exertion which we talking about
Is the sadhana or Tapas if some people want to use that word and illumination comes because we are concentrating using our Ghana is another word which Madam lit uses very frequently and that will guide him and that will guide him to travel inside him go inside and find out
The truth for all by himself and live the Truth live the that’s more important living the truth so Gathering of knowledge as Madame Raj says is only half job done it’s only 50% of the work done that’s not all one has to really fall back onto the understanding assimilating
And living the right kind of life that’s more important ethologically speaking the term religion means the unification of one single part with the universal whole ethologically speaking the term religion means unification of one single part with the entire unified one go so religion is one which binds us
Back to the source religion is one which backs which binds us back to the source this is how we have to understand religion it should not split us it do not make us into different groups so this is the religion as she talked about and religion is not a
Particular set of dogmas or beliefs or rituals or procedures because rajaj came after from my grandfather passed away home and said I’m happy that you have not done all those obses I said my grandfather told us not required so we have not done it so she was very happy
Because just doing it for the sake of doing it you don’t gain anything maybe the priest gains we don’t gain anything so she said if the person knows what happens to him after death nothing need to be done so that’s how we get rid of rituals which are not required dogmas
Which are not required dogmatic presentation means I say this is the truth and nothing else is the truth that’s dogmatic and how brother SRI changed therefore to also in the Universal prayer was only based on that therefore is like proving a theorem so he said shall we use this
No also we can say he’s also one with every other so that’s how the coining of the also came in into the universal prayer which is done outside and perhaps elsewhere they say therefore so religion per say HB says in its wider sense is that which binds us
Not only men together but all beings all living beings they’re all together all living beings the entire universe they’re all brought together and uh very good and here is another quotation again from the magazine Lucifer which she edited when she went back to UK Madame blitzky she
Says all beings and all things in the entire universe into one grand hole that’s how we have to understand that so religion per se in its wider sense is that which binds us not only men together but also all beings and all things inanimate objects also in the
Entire universe into one grand hold that’s the quote of HPV from Lucifer volume Five I think we get it in the IDE liity like that but maybe in the internet these days we get it I’m not quite sure I’m seen in the internet maybe it is there
In the internet too so the author says Madame Raj says it is so Universal the approach of theosophy is so Universal and all embracing this Bond of unity which we are talking about that no man no Speck of dust and no molecule from Gods to Mortals none of them them
Are accepted or not considered not kept aside so down to animals and she uses this Frame number of times this phrase even the blade of grass Raj has used this blade of grass number of occasions so many books so she says this Bond of unity is all these things put together
And nothing can be outside this and this is the sum and substance of what unity and Oneness is all about So based on that wisdom religion which is theosophy as Madame glitsky has told us and the first object for the theosophical society has emanated from this so that’s why we
Say creating a nucleus of universal Brotherhood where is that nucleus is not external again it is within us within our heart that’s something which we all know but we should not look elsewhere for the nucleus yes all of us put together perhaps a bigger nucleus formed
But then this is how we have to understand so rajaj says the concept of universal Brotherhood she says the concept of universal Brotherhood cannot be a weak cannot be made of a weak fraternity the concept of universal Brotherhood cannot be made out of a weak fraternity meaning it’s not a weak thing
It’s not a natural thing but it is a strong Gathering of people Gathering not at the external level or with a view to build a social better relationship of or com she very very very clear it’s not external the Brotherhood is not something external Miss we may have lot of other
Associations where we have a lot of togetherness but that’s not the togetherness we’re talking about she says it’s not a weak fraternity the roots of the universal Brotherhood have to be traced from a deeper level and all of us who accept the aims and objects of the
Society to make the society into a vibrate stronger organization so we have to realize the purpose very clearly the purpose of the philosophical Society very clearly that is to form the togetherness the universal togetherness the Oneness that Universal principle that one principle gives life to all and builds a bond of
Unity amongst all Universal beings Universal so many beings are there you may see an ant but ant has got his energy we have energy Madame bliski talks about an ox having the same thing as human being so we don’t treat an ox with a feeling that that’s a lower
Animal no the content and the life pattern which is there in Ox is as good as what is there in me so this is how we have to understand the animal kingdom the plant kingdom the mineral Kingdom so this is how the universality has to be built in this Universal Brotherhood Madame
Rajaj says must have regenerating practical quality and power if it is to be a real if it is to be of real value if Universal Brotherhood is to be of a real value is not a weak fraternity she said sometime back and she says it should be practical the Brotherhood should be
Practical and it should have a regenerating capabilities why regenerating when man is born he has got that self-preserving principle so we continually protect ourselves but then she is talking about the real value she says what is regeneration leaving off all that is selfish becoming unselfish that’s perhaps regenerating so
That’s what is the main theme of those lectures at narden which has been produced into a book called the human regeneration so we should have a loving disposition towards all beings and the capacity to associate ourselves the welfare of all not just the human beings but even the animals
And animals elsewhere she says they know the pain but they don’t have sorrow in them animals don’t have sorrow in them but they have pain they excise they they do realize pain and man inflicts that pain man inflicts that pain so this is there will come some where else at that
Time perhaps we will consider it again and we need to have this ability to include everyone theosophy is inclusive philosophy it doesn’t exclude anything but unfortunate sometimes exclusion is practiced but it is includ the philosophy so I me or myself is replaced by the all self or I or me y if you
Reverse it becomes we M if you reverse it becomes we so it is we we have to talk about not me that’s what Brotherhood means so if Brotherhood remains impractical if it remains impractical and if we know the term only as it exists in the book not in our life
Then it’s of no use she says very clearly it’s of no use at all no avail so genuinely practically if it’s not a fact if just a theory so it’s not going to help us so when this is realized by me and I realize that I’m part of the
Whole I’m part of the whole I’m saying whole because everything is included in that and that realization if it becomes a fact of life and it becomes a truth to me inside not just to talk about dear brother am that’s one way of saying but then do I really
Mean do I really have that brotherly feeling from inside that’s more important more relevant lot of people hear brother but that brotherly thing is Flowing that current is Flowing from you to the other person that’s more important so that’s what perhaps she says it’s more practical than theoretical so accumulating knowledge is
Of no use she goes on saying couple of times so realization that is a fact of life Brotherhood is a fact of life and in everyday life it becomes part and parcel of our life and that will lead us to the Practical Universal Brotherhood it is not something which is there in
Books it is not unnatural as something some people say it is very natural since we have come into this world as an individual and this individual has a component which is common to all the individuals the prwa is there in everything which we see around and if we
Realize that pwa is one then we are together when we realize my life is different am’s life is different T’s life is different then we go in separate ways so when we say we have togetherness in the real sense of the term then we are practicing the universal Brotherhood in
Reality so how to practice you have to put it in practice driving for example in the beginning was very difficult driving a car I mean very difficult but now I can drive talking to my wife looking outside into the advertisement Billboards that’s possible now but in the beginning it was very
Difficult us to be like that now it’s not that so this is how even this when we put it into practice not simply talk about being brother and having something else inside I told recently somebody whom I visited I have nothing against nobody none of them are against me even if
They’re against me I’m with them my grandfather once told me you love someone who loves you that’s ordinary somebody doesn’t love you you still love him that is something which you have to cultivate that man talks behind you and you still hold him in esteem and still
Call him your brother that’s the test of Brotherhood so this is what I learned from him we saw him and learned he never told us do this do that so that’s how we learned he was the teacher by profession but then we saw him and we
Learned yeah so that truth which we have to realize is something which is inside all of us and not external is something which we have stressed again and again so what happens when it become when a person becomes unselfish what does what does it what is the transformation taking
Place he becomes a natural candidate for living a brotherly life he becomes a natural candidate to live a brotherly life that’s the key drop the unselfishness you become a candidate for the universal Brotherhood cultivate selfishness you go move away from the brotherliness this is then what happens I think last
Convention I was talking brotherly becomes otherly we are removed otherly it becomes other brotherliness other both are there in that so BR is removed if I’m removing selfishness and brotherly if I’m more selfish I’m otherly this is what it is so the journey towards unselfishness is based on right and firm determination and
Conviction that’s the way to live and one has the ability looking within oneself every night before he HS the bed there is anything which I have done which is selfish anything which I have done which is selfish do I did I project myself did
I say something which I I I spent a lot of time and so I also repent sometimes if some words have escaped which are not worth saying if they have gone out of my vocal cards I I tell myself I will not do this and perhaps I have not seen
Physically them but then I seek their pardon because I should not repeat it so I’m convinced that’s not the way so if conviction is there will not repeat it this is the whole Crux of it so how to remove this selfishness is through real trial and trial a serious
Trial as that and not something which we do once in a way it is n sad is Gap nanta means there’s no Gap every time any time any minute of his Waking Life or in even sleeping life life he’s practicing that unselfish attitude that should be the aim
Of at least this 13 14,000 of Indian section members then it becomes more stronger the links become more stronger so this is how one goes and then she slides into one segment from one segment another segment in the book The small book which we have she slides
From one segment another segment and now talks about know by personal experience the second segment the first one is all introduction to the subject the second one she talks about know by personal experience continuing her emphasis on practicality the wisdom the wisdom should be practical otherwise it’s of no
Use there is a staff available to support me while walking if it breaks it’s of no use that should help me to walk properly steadily so wisdom is like Dharma is a something like a walking stick you make three parts of it the fourth one is something with you Dharma
Is there with you you remove three the fourth one remains with you so the practicality the wisdom whether it is wisdom religion or theosophy that’s what is expected of all the members of the theosophical society as raj says and the earnest students Madam is saying the earnest students of theosophy must wish to
Do more than study she is not suggesting don’t study because she said more than study keep away the books is not things so some people they read between the lines and they say oh she’s not for studying so I keep away the books no she’s not suggesting that she’s
Saying it is more than study theoretically the truths the philosophical literature propounds or puts up more than that so there’s a quote which he gives in support of that from the letter number 11 which a fairly long one I have not made a slide of it the recognition of the
Higher phases of man’s being on this planet is not to be obtained by mere acquirement of of knowledge volumes of most perfectly constructed information cannot reveal to man life in the higher regions one has to get a knowledge of spiritual facts by personal experience this is the quote and she put
That at the heading of the second segment know by personal experience so you can now get how inspired she is by the wisdom of the higher ones I’ll read the long quotation once again for noting down the operative segment of that particular quotation the recognition of the higher
Phases of man’s being on this planet is not to be obtained by mere acquirement of knowledge knowledge what we get from books or from hearing or anything that’s not that what volumes of most perfectly constructed information most perfectly constructed information cannot reveal to man life in higher Realms or higher
Regions what is higher life cannot be understood by simply reading about de chanic PL you may have some information all right but how do you get in there is by practical experience that’s what she’s saying so and life in the higher regions that’s that’s exactly not through knowledge not
Through lectures even this is mere words so one has to get a knowledge of spiritual facts one has to get knowledge of spiritual facts by personal experience this is the reason why she has put the next segment The Heading as no by personal experience so the student should strive Madam says the student
Should strive to know the truth by personal experience by study by contemplating this is the process this is the only process study contemplation and meditating meditating is actually if you really go into the eological meaning thinking deeply thinking deeply about the content so meditating and what was studied Anon
Says in one of the books which we studied in our Federation you study for 10 minutes or 5 minutes close the book and contemplate on it and again read the portion which you have covered and then perhaps you know much more than what you understood by reading it for the first time the
Second time you heard or you have gone through the content is after contemplating on it that gives you a wider Vista so that’s what she says that’s the method of study so she he’s suggesting also the same thing study contemplating and meditating and what was studied so that the person converts the
Knowledge into his personal wisdom only when I own those contents as mine I internalize it it becomes mine otherwise it becomes letb and it becomes X Y anyone even blavy so unless you understand study internalize it make it your own it is not wisdom it is simply
Facts which are mentioned by a lot of people lot of learned people so this is what converts converts internalizes the study portion makes it one’s own and then becomes wisdom I think we have a terminology in the vtic text also Manana nasana manasa so NASA helps you to
Internalize it you’re always thinking of that principle whenever you get time you you talk think about that what you are studied in the morning that’s exactly what Mida is all about one of the teachers which I I told about the person who taught ramay if oil is PED from one
Big container into a smaller container it goes on without an inter uninterruptedly it falls into the small container that is how NASA has to happen NASA has to happen with no interruptions so it happens as if the oil is being poured from a big container to a small
Container where the flow is continuous you’re able to see through in fact and it’s falling that is NASA so this is how one has to consider the study which we make and internalize it and then becomes one’s own wisdom this is what we supposed to do what we are supposed to acquire
Fire and then it becomes the idea becomes a fact of life then it becomes a fact of life it’s a truth we we can live with the truth so then then when it becomes truth when becomes that person becomes brotherly he can effectively help others says Madam Raj he can effectively help
Others only when he knows the other person he’s a brother if he’s not someone who who is whom he treats not as a brother how can he help he will not help he will only think differently of tangent he will go so effectively if one wants to help
Others as one would help himself this is something which is echoing something like what what Christ perhaps said in the Bible if effectively want to help others as he would help himself then then it becomes a fact it becomes a truth so hbb Wars in a book the key to
Theosophy the student should use his discretion the capacity to discriminate and act judiciously so that one remains on the path of service this is important if you decided to do service you should live to continue to do service she points out an example of father Damian who was only 30 year old
Or 32 year old who went and worked with the leprosy camps he got involved so much that he contracted the disease and he perished he died so that’s not the way to work you should definitely do with lot of discretion judiciously effectively considering the other person
As part of you and then perhaps you would make the right service the right kind of service this is what she wants so father Damian is one example d m i en Damian was only 30 years old when he died because of his jumping into the
Service of serving the lepers it was a good cause but then he should have taken VI care of himself too so this is what happened and what is given in the K to theosophy so according to rajaji intellectual speculation and arguments intellectual speculation intellectual that means I know one thing
Knows another thing lakmi know the third thing we argue that’s not going to lead us anywhere we may lose the Friendship that’s one thing which would definitely happen because we arguing so intellectual speculation and argument on other topics and even if these are related to theosophy is not
Synonymous or equal equ to really knowing theosophy not synonymous or equivalent to really knowing theosophy you know something as as things go now as to what for example brotherliness is you live with it you improve upon it you don’t have to necessarily argue with XY Z not
Necessary you keep that wisdom all for yourself and evolve so that’s the message there so knowing theosophy is why why why should we know theosophy is to get back to the source of Oneness practice Brotherhood and then she says aani a wise person a wise man doesn’t talk
Much but works for the cause of Oneness there are a lot of people whom we have seen in our lives because every temp house we go a lot of people here from P are there for them it’s very close there is that picture of Ramana I
Never knew who that person was when I was leaving at AA I never really could understand who this person is there almost in every house but that’s Ramana who would only communicate through silence as says incidentally liked that St quite a lot like I don’t know how many people
Know JK also liked lakam St you may banish me from this place because I’m saying that but then he carried neatly written calligraphed that in his pocket that’s the truth we we lucky because we living in a I could see at that distance sitting close to him looking into his and very interestingly
He gave me and my person who used to take me there a Girl by name shakuna breakfast so I put my hand immediately to eat idly that girl was saying no don’t do it but he said let him have it that way that’s the usual way no why are you objecting so
That’s krishn morti for understanding a person great man so aani or a wise man doesn’t talk much but works for the cause of Oneness so knowledge or information will not lead us anywhere knowledge or information would not lead us anywhere it is wisdom acquired with due meditation and contemplation which
Will deliver us so this is the real message which she is giving in this particular segment and knowledge is related to matter knowledge is related to matter and wisdom is related to the spirit there is a difference vast difference between matter and spirit so knowledge is related to matter wisdom is related
To the spirit so man has to Endeavor to arrive and become spiritually perfect human being perfect being yeah it goes without saying he’s a human so this is what he conveyed to us knowledge is related to matter this is something which we need to carry it in our knowledge related to matter I
Download lot of things from internet parapsychologist said this x said this y said this does it make theosophy and if I’m not correlating what parapsychologist said if there is something correlation in theosophy can it be theosophical in approach if I’m talking only of par para psychologist way of presenting his understanding of
What mind is because we heard as per one of the psychology mind has four divisions but we are told in the theic literature there is two divisions but the second one is only the line is only an imaginary line that’s not exactly a line because we are
Concentrating more on the lower we think that’s real only when we leave that we perhaps go to the next one like we give the of often quoted example the pole Walter uses a pole to propel him to the other side right pole wter uses the fiberglass
Poles these days to propel him to the other side if he holds on to the pole he can’t go there so if he leaves this he can go there and a trapez artist in the circus is using one to swing and then he finds something else coming in the
Opposite direction if he leaves this then he can c catch that holding on to this he can’t catch that so this is exactly what we are also supposed to do if we carrying on with matter we can’t get to the spirit and she says wisdom
Will be there only when you are in touch with the spirit so this is the Endeavor we are supposed to try very very sincerely to be part of the people or part of the Group which will be with the spirit not with the matter time yeah we’ll break for tea mahapatra is yeah
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