New threads: It is regrettable that most people do not realize how much of their strength is wasted in attempts to depress the mood of those intimately connected with them. Some day people will be censured for trying to spoil the mood of others. It is reprehensible enough to break a musical instrument, but how much more valuable is the human mind! It is impossible to restore a broken mood. 116. Urusvati knows that there is a correlation between battle and creation. From the mundane point of view these concepts would appear to be opposites. But We say that creation is the dispersing of darkness, therefore there exists not opposition but a correlation between these two seemingly opposed concepts. We are often accused of frightening people by putting so much stress on the concept of battle and for saying that Our Battle is endless. People assume that creation is peaceful, and battle destructive, but how can one think of creation without mastery over the elements, without a courageous struggle to overcome obstacles? Thus Our Battle, too, is mastery over chaos. If there were no such defense, the waves of chaos would overwhelm all achievements. It is important to realize fully that battle and creation are active principles of Be-ness. When We discuss motion, We have in mind the very same dispersal of darkness. We advocate battle not as fratricidal slaughter, but as a beautiful defense of the whole manifested world. One cannot remain at peace when chaos is raging. It would be appropriate to illustrate this idea by the ancient maxim that to appreciate safety one must experience several earthquakes. Only on lifes precipice can one perceive Infinity. Most people will not understand this, since for them battle is the opposite of creation. One cannot speak effectively to the crowds about endless battle, and only a few true seekers will realize how much their bold experiments resemble a battle. The ancient images of the Luminous Spirits always depicted them with armor. Every scientist has his own armor, which is knowledge. New thread: Cher Davis Rae, I always thought if I lived a life emerged in the Spiritual Teaching, then the body health would be naturally follow. One only has to look at a few advanced disciples and initiates to see it aint always so. Krishnamurti and Blavatsky both greatly suffered physically. Helena Roerich, in Supermundane. said of Ramakrishna (died of cancer), Ramakrishna gave all of himself to service. He suffered from an excessive outpouring of psychic energy. He departed before his time because of his self-sacrifice. And from Agni Yoga Glossary--His power of healing he in turn gave out freely. He never hid anything useful. He exhausted his strength in innumerable blessed givings. And even his illness, of course, was due to such constant self-sacrificing outpouring of his spiritual energy for the healing of others. And in these generous gifts Ramakrishna manifested his greatness. (Him, pp 87-89). Bonnie, I agree with you that karma has effect on our health (includes family heredity, time cycle, nation, etc). Aquarian age brings its own physical malaise which is the discomfort of change, the pull between the old and the new. A healthy physical is helped by exercise and diet, but I think mostly that it the intersection of the age of emotion and the age mind (kamamanas) that causes most of our human dis-ease. Kamamanas—That blending of the mental and desire element that forms the personality or common brain-intelligence of the man. The energies that express themselves through the lower kinds of mental matter are so changed by it into slower vibrations that are responded to by astral matter that the two bodies are continually vibrating together, and become very closely interwoven.— Treatise on Cosmic Fire Skepticism is a often a form of protection. As such it serves a usual evolutionary purpose, protecting from gullibility. Or course, skepticism would ultimately be resolved through deep knowledge.
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