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and you will have fathomed the greatest mystery in this our world -- and why not --
are you not surrounded by it? What are its familiar manifestations, mesmerism, Od
force, etc. -- all different aspects of one force capable of good and evil applications.
The degrees of an Adept's initiation mark the seven stages at which he discovers the
secret of the sevenfold principles in nature and man and awakens his dormant
powers.
The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett
Theosophical University Press Edition
Letter No. 16
[Mr. Sinnett's queries to which K.H. replies in this letter are printed in
bold type. -- ED.]
(1) The remarks appended to a letter in the last Theosophist,page 226, Col. 1, strike
me as very important and as qualifying -- I do not say contradicting -- a good deal of
what we have hitherto been told in re Spiritualism.
We had heard already of a spiritual condition of life in which the redeveloped Ego
enjoyed a conscious existence for a time before reincarnation in another world; but
that branch of the subject has hitherto been slurred over. Now some explicit
statements are made about it; and these suggest further enquiries.
In the Deva Chan (I have lent my Theosophist to a friend; and have not got it at hand
to refer to but that if I remember rightly is the name given to the state of spiritual
beatitude described) the new Ego retains complete recollection of his life on earth
apparently. Is that so or is there any misunderstanding on that point on my part?
(1) The Deva-Chan, or land of "Sukhavati," is allegorically described by our Lord
Buddha himself. What he said may be found in the Shan-Mun-yi-Tung. Says Tathagata: --
"Many thousand myriads of systems of worlds beyond this (ours) there is a region of
Bliss called Sukhavati . . . . This region is encircled with seven rows of railings, seven
rows of vast curtains, seven rows of waving trees; this holy abode of Arahats is governed
by the Tathagatas (Dhyan Chohans) and is possessed by the Bodhisatwas. It hath seven
precious lakes, in the midst of which flow crystaline waters having 'seven and one'
properties, or distinctive qualities (the 7 principles emanating from the ONE). This, O,
Sariputra is the 'Deva Chan.' Its divine Udarnbara flower casts a root in the shadow of
every earth, and blossoms for all those who reach it. Those born in the blessed region are
truly felicitous, there are no more griefs or sorrows in that cycle for them. . . . Myriads of
Spirits (Lha) resort there for rest and then return to their own regions. (1) Again, O,
Sariputra, in that land of joy many who are born in it are Avaivartyas . . .(2) etc., etc.
(2) Now except in the fact that the duration of existence in the Deva Chan is limited,
there is a very close resemblance between that condition and the Heaven of ordinary
religion (omitting anthropomorphic ideas of God).
(2) Certainly the new Ego once that it is reborn, retains for a certain time -- proportionate
to its Earth-life, a "complete recollection of his life on earth." (3) (See your preceding
query.) But it can never return on earth, from the Deva Chan, nor has the latter -- even
omitting all "anthropomorphic ideas of God" -- any resemblance to the paradise or
heaven of any religion, and it is H.P.B.'s literary fancy that suggested to her the
wonderful comparison.
(3) Now the question of importance -- is who goes to Heaven -- or Deva Chan? Is this
condition only attained by the few who are very good, or by the many who are not
very bad, -- after the lapse in their case of a longer unconscious incubation or
gestation.
(3) "Who goes to Deva Chan?" The personal Ego of course, but beatified, purified, holy.
Every Ego -- the combination of the sixth and seventh principles -- which, after the
period of unconscious gestation is reborn into the Deva-Chan, is of necessity as innocent
and pure as a new-born babe. The fact of his being reborn at all, shows the preponderance
of good over evil in his old personality. And while the Karma (of evil) steps aside for the
time being to follow him in his future earth-reincamation, he brings along with him but
the Karma of his good deeds, words, and thoughts into this Deva-Chan. "Bad" is a
relative term for us -- as you were told more than once before, -- and the Law of
Retribution is the only law that never errs. Hence all those who have not slipped down
into the mire of unredeemable sin and bestiality -- go to the Deva Chan. They will have to
pay for their sins, voluntary and involuntary, later on. Meanwhile, they are rewarded;
receive the effects of the causes produced by them.
Of course it is a state, one, so to say, of intense selfishness, during which an Ego reaps
the reward of his unselfishness on earth. He is completely engrossed in the bliss of all his
personal earthly affections, preferences and thoughts, and gathers in the fruit of his
meritorious actions. No pain, no grief nor even the shadow of a sorrow comes to darken
the bright horizon of his unalloyed happiness: for, it is a state of perpetual "Maya" . . . [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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