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foreign to our last session of our home with theosophy we are exploring the ancient wisdom and today we are going to to explore the two highest planes that are part of the field of human evolution the the higher we go in the in this exploration in regards to the planes the more difficult it is to describe them so many times you find that there is a far more detailed description of the lower planes like the astral plane for example than of the higher planes however the higher planes as we are going to see are the source of our true being so it is necessary to understand to some extent what the nature of these planes are planes as a state of consciousness I'm going to mention that but it's important to have some understanding because that is our true nature now it is obvious that a mere intellectual understanding of our true nature is not the same as experiencing us knowing in a direct way what we really are but the verbal description that we can get through the teachings at least um it's uh pointing out towards the the direction that we have to direct our our Attention our meditation our our research the buddhic and nirvonic plains we have seen that man is an intelligent self-conscious entity The Thinker clad embodies belonging to the lower mental astral and physical planes we have now to study the spirit which is his innermost self The Source once he proceeds so in The theosophical View when we talk about a sunny basant explained in the first chapter when we talk about men in the uh it comes from the root from the Sanskrit root man that means uh the The Thinker the word Manu is a Sanskrit word that comes from the same root and in the theosophical view the characteristic or the feature that is special to humanity is this ability to think to reason to understand now we also saw that thinking as we know it as this succession of of uh words and images in our mind is a shadow shadowy reflection of what the real process of grasping understanding is on the spiritual level but the idea is that this is like if you talk about a triangle for example what makes a triangle be a triangle is that it has these three sides and three angles and um they're they're the square is a figure as well as the triangle is a figure and you have all different kinds of figure figures but what makes a triangle triangle is these characteristics that I mentioned so the human what makes a human being this this particular entity is that uh faculty of thinking of understanding of grasping that is um it has its seat on the higher monastic plane now that doesn't mean that this aspect the monastic aspect is what a human being really is just as the triangle has a more Universal nature which is the the quality of being a figure for example uh human the human being is a particular expression of something more fundamental there's something more fundamental which Annie besan they are called the spirit uh manifests in the world in different ways in different kingdoms so when the spirit manifests as The Thinker that's a human being if we see on this table the higher manners is what Annie besant is talking about the causal body is its vehicle of Consciousness so she says that a a human being a man in that sense is this level of Consciousness that has a mental body going down in the the chart there you can see a mental body astral body and the two lower body cell on the physical plane so now we are going to study the root the real essence of a human being and of anything else in the universe for that matter this Divine Spirit array from the logos partaking of his own essential being has the triple nature of the logos himself and the evolution of man as man consists in the gradual manifestation of these three aspects their development from latency into activity man thus repeating in miniature the evolution of the universe hence he is spoken of as the microcosm the universe being the macrocosm so the Divine spirit in human beings and investment says his away from the logos the logos being the divine and when we call it about when we talk about array it is this is a symbolic way of talking for example we normally talk about the the race that come from the Sun but that doesn't mean that there are actually little Rays one separate from the other that come from the the Sun the the sunlight is one one you know well if you go to the Quantic nature you you see the photons and all that but without stretching the analogy too far like this at the sunlight is a one homogeneous thing which symbolically speaking we think of composed of sun sun beams so in a similar way the spirit in human beings is a ray from the the Divine but the rays are not really separate in its origin they are separate that they appear as separate as we are going to see as they are reflected on the the lower vehicles of Consciousness just like you have the Sun that is reflected on many leaves on a tree and each Leaf has its own spark that doesn't mean that the the origin of the light is different that these Sparks have a different origin it means these are different reflections of the same so the spirit in each one of us is just different reflections of the one divinity and since this is the case animation explains here the spirit has three aspects just as the Divine has these three aspects in Hinduism these three aspects of the Divine are sat which means being self-reality cheat which means Consciousness intelligence and then Ananda which is normally translated as Blaise and but it's difficult it's a difficult term to translate it could be translated also as peace Harmony you know the the state of of goodness so you the spirit in human beings have uh these three aspects and that's why human beings are regarded as the microcosm the the small Cosmos as a reflection of the big Cosmos the macrocosm these powers are brought into manifestation by the impacts arising from contact with the objects of the universe into which the monad is thrown the friction caused by these gives rise to responsive Thrills from the life subjected to their stimuli and one by one the energies of the life pass from latency into activity so a typical philosophical problem is why if the logos and the spirit in human beings are essentially the same the the logos has the power to generate a universe and the spirit in human beings is completely limited by you know even by by our body so in many Traditions when they talk about especially in India for example when they talk about the Divine and the purusha the purusha being this human Spirit they say the Divine is a special kind of purusha it's a purusha that has the a particular experience that allows it to be able to manipulate matter in a way that human beings cannot so in the theosophical view the idea is that the spirits are like seeds from a certain point of view this language is always allegorical and we have to keep that in mind but it's like a seed that has latent all the potentialities of the Divine you know each one of us is a logos in in a state of Awakening and this the this um latent faculties need to be activated so the way to activate that faculties or those faculties is by what we call life and evolution the the the Divine spark begins to be wrapped up in different levels of matter and then it learns it acquires experience and learns how to express through each level without being blinded by that particular level of matter at the beginning the Divine spark is thrown into a physical body and it's like the the awareness that is intrinsic in in the spark is blinded but in time with the interactions with the with the external world all those late latent faculties begin to be awakened and the same on all the different levels the human monad shows the three aspects of deity which are developed one after the other during the human cycle these aspects are the three great attributes of the Divine Life as manifested in the universe existence sat Bliss Ananda and intelligence chip in man these aspects are developed in the Reversed order intelligence Bliss and existence that is the manifestation of the Divine Powers so Universal relates these three aspects with the three higher principles that you see there on on the table admin represents that the self in US buddhi is the the aspect of Ananda or or Bliss and unity and chit is the aspect of intelligence that is manners as we have seen the the of this higher Triad in human beings the first aspect that begins to develop is the causal body now the coastal body can be developed as we discussed in our last meeting only after name the physical body evolves to a certain extent so that it can develop an intelligent being you know with a primitive human being so the first work in nature is to develop a physical body that is subtle and complex enough to be able to host self-consciousness that's the primitive human being that was slowly evolved from minerals to plants animals and and then the primitive human being as I said then we saw that we need to develop an emotional body the astral body that at the beginning is very rough and incoherent and then in time it become becomes a vehicle of Consciousness then the mental body has to be developed as we saw in the previous classes now all that is a preparation so that the causal body begins to evolve and this is what we discussed in our last meeting now as we are going to see in this meeting as the coastal body begins to develop and this is the aspect of intelligence then the bodic aspect will begin to flourish that's the aspect of Ananda the Bliss and eventually there will be the realization of sat of the true self in US minus the Thinker the human soul is the image of the Universal Mind of the third logos and all his long pilgrimage on the three lower planes is devoted to the evolution of this third aspect the intellectual side of the divine nature in man while this is proceeding we may consider the other Divine energies as rather brooding over him the hidden source of his life then as actively developing their forces within him so I um as we developed the aspect of intelligence the higher aspects are not cannot really Express through Us in in a in in their original form so of course all these Atma everything we are is just the expression of adman now adman when it expresses itself as this wisdom slash Bliss we call it body when adman expresses itself as understanding intelligence we call it a Manas Etc so everything is a differentiation from from admin if if you want to look at this you know from an ontological point of view however when um all these vehicles are doing the the process of evolution by which all these vehicles of Consciousness are developed the essential aspect of Atma and body that is Alman as a universal sense of being of self and body as this wisdom Bliss love also is part of body they cannot really manifest in a pure way through the the lower Vehicles so admin manifests as the sense of being this personality separate from the rest and body that love manifests in me as a selfish kind of love and in selfish desire or or they search for pleasure physical pleasure or personal pleasure so all these are manifestations of the higher principles but since they are so different we we gave give them different names in theosophy so we call them Kama and you know different so what any business is there is that the pure manifestation of the higher principles is latent so this in their pure Essence are like if they were brooding over the the intelligent being that that is a human being uh until all the vehicles of Consciousness begin to be sensitive enough to be able to express those pure faculties the Buddha plane the Bliss aspect is named in theosophical terminology booty a name derived from the Sanskrit word for wisdom in the buddhic plain of our universe there is still Duality but there is no separation words fail me to convey the idea for words belong to the lower planes where Duality and separation are ever connected it is a state in which each is himself and yet in which each feels himself to include all others to be one with them in separate and inseparable so both the is usually regarded as a plane of unity although an investment here says it's a there is still Duality and that is that is true there is both buddhi and adman are planes of unity Unity from the point of view of of the experience and any person will explain that later however at the buddhic level there is still a certain kind of Duality though no separation duality in the sense that I feel myself and feel that the whole universe is inside of of myself or that I myself am pervade in the universe but there is still a sense of being myself of course if I feel that I'm in the whole universe then that sense of being is very different from the sense of being that I may have now right now of being this particular body so it's always tricky to say there is still a sense of self or being because we naturally assume that is similar to the one we know now we could say that Buddhism stay is a plane where there is polarity in unity so maybe if you know a little about science a an atom a neutral atom which has in same numbers of protons and electrons the at the level of the charge we say there is zero charge the the atom is neutral but the atom itself has a polarity you have the negative charges of the electrons the positive charges in the nucleus of the protons so there is a duality but it works as a whole so the same with with buddhi now we have to be careful because when we talk about for example any businesses in the buddhic plane of our universe and since we normally depict this in a series of in a chart as a series of layers we may think the buddhic plane is somewhere up there and the body plane is not right here so if you want to perceive Unity you cannot perceive Unity on the physical plane you have to take some kind of spiritual elevator and go to the body plane now that is of course not the right idea and then any person when describing it later she says it is a state in which it is himself and yet it feels Been Everywhere body is a state right here and right now when we perceive the world from the point of view of no separation so it's like saying you know on the on the hate level we we just feel separate from everybody or on the hate plane and on the love plane we feel you know United with everybody we call them planes because partly because these different states uh need a different kind of matter to to express themselves but uh we call them planes not because they are spatially separated these are all states of Consciousness so we can be right here on the physical world perceiving from the bully plane meaning perceiving the unity or perceiving from any other place so let us keep that in mind and not think that in order to perceive the unity we have to go somewhere else it is a faint Echo from this plane which makes men seek Happiness by Union between themselves and the object of their desire no matter what the object may be perfect isolation is perfect misery to be stripped naked of everything to be hanging in the void of space in utter Solitude nothing anywhere saved the lone individual shut out from all shut into the separated self so she says our constant need to acquire things to embrace to even the the process of eating and assimilating uh the the desire for all these things is a reflection of our our longing for Unity when that manifests through an identification with this part then to me Unity will mean to accumulate everything for for this little part but the the original sense is a sense of being united too and that comes from buddhi and she says that the the worst experience at Consciousness can feel is this other isolation and separation and we see that that's actually a way a form of torture you know on the physical plane to isolate people but she is referring here even to the the idea of you know in in Christianity many times hell is described as being separated from God and uh the idea in philosophy of Avicii which has some similarities to to to the idea of Hell except for the fact that Avicii or any other state is temporary uh Avicii is this state in which the the Divine spark is isolated from the current the life of the logos and it is said that that is the the worst experience that anybody can can experience because unities are true nature and this is just the opposite of what what we really are as this Bliss aspect of the self begins to send outward outwards its vibrations these vibrations as on the planes below draw around them the matter of the plane on which they are functioning and thus is formed gradually the Buddhist body or Bliss body as it is appropriately termed the only way in which the man can contribute to the building of this glorious form is by cultivating pure unselfish all-embracing beneficent love love that is neither partial nor seeks any return for its outflowing so another principle in the philosophical view is that as long as you have any kind of Consciousness you have some kind of body or vehicle of consciousness so there is a bodic body that she calls here the Bliss body which is formed as that State of Consciousness begins to awaken in human beings and of course perceiving through this particular body we don't feel separated from others or from anything around it indicates that this body is is absolutely subtle and and in later writings right in Sunny basant many times would say you know we cannot even really call it a body it's something far subtler but anyway they the the idea is that there is some kind of organization of matter that is needed to hold this kind of Consciousness and as she says the the only way that this organization of the vehicle of Consciousness can can be stimulated is by cultivating this completely pure love if you see for example the the description of Love That Saint Paul offers in in one of his letters in Corinthians I think that that is the kind of love that is a buddhic love the kind of love that we many times feel have body aspects or or a buddhic nature there but then all the other aspects May begin to interfere and we associate to that a sense of possession a sense of jealousy I need to to be retributed so that makes that love not really bodic and now again what we call love normally we Associated the feeling of love with the desire with the desire you know to possess to grab to embrace and uh and the buddhic love although there is a longing a kind of longing for Union it's a completely different nature I don't think we necessarily have to relate it to an emotion the the giving oneself for the benefit of you know of others be the the person that is next to us at the moment or the whole Humanity doesn't matter the the offering of oneself without seeking anything in return that is part of the buddhic love wherever man pours out love on all who need it making no difference seeking no return from Pure spontaneous joy in the outpouring there that man is developing the Bliss aspect of the deity within him and is preparing that body of beauty and joy ineffable into which The Thinker will rise casting away the limits of separateness to find himself and yet one with all that lives so again at this level we still retain an awareness of ourselves and yet we feel that we are one with everything and um this is one of the something that is normally or it is emphasized in some traditions but uh again many times the devotional traditions for example they try to emphasize this kind of love but then our personality most of the times turns this kind of love that seeks nothing into a kind of commercial love so you love the deity as long as a deity is giving you what you want or you you ask the deity for things or the guru or whoever it is and so it is important to realize that this love has nothing no element in it of gaining not even gaining the recognition of the guru or the deity it is a love that just wants to give and that's what develops the bodic aspect the nirvonic plane the fifth is the plane of the highest human aspect of the God within us and this aspect is named by theasivas Atma or the self it is the plane of pure existence of divine powers in their fullest manifestation in our five-fold universe what lies Beyond on the sixth and seventh planes is hidden by the unimaginable light of God remember that um I think I mentioned at the beginning that there are seven planes now the the two higher planes which an investment calls here the sixth and the seventh those are planes that are in the belong to the realm of of the Divine the highest experience that a human being can have is the experience of the admik playing once one become self-aware on that level on that plane and again don't think of up there but what we mean once we become aware of the the admic reality in in everything then the human evolution is finished and a new cycle of evolution of a in a higher form we could say as a god or an angel or whatever you want to call it begins and then the the two higher planes are the field of evolution that that come next so basically Innovation says here this uh admic reality is the highest that we can ever experience as a human being and this is what Buddhists and also in Hinduism but it's not so common in Hinduism what these two Traditions come called Nirvana according to the theosophical interpretation is when we realize the admik uh reality the atomic nature of of everything when you are aware of that then that is nirvana or navonic Consciousness is attained by those lofty ones who have already completed the cycle of human evolution and who are called Masters they have solved in themselves the problem of uniting the essence of individuality with non-separateness and live Immortal intelligences perfect in wisdom in Bliss in power so again um everything that is expressed in itself is a form of admin the very awareness that is in US is a form of adman the problem is that we we perceive this admin in an illusory way we perceive things outside of ourselves we identify ourselves with a fragment of what we really are so it's not that Alman is out there are far removed but its true essence or we are blinded to its true Essence because of this illusion because we we still don't have enough experience to so that we are not fooled by forms for example if you have gold and you generate different necklaces and you know earrings and all different kind of jewelry out of gold you may be like blinded by all the different forms and not perceive that they are just gold but with experience you you can perceive that the the forms are just passing passing phenomena that the the essence is called in a similar way at the moment we are blinded by the diversity and we think that we are separate that everything is different but realizing the admic Consciousness means that we understand not intellectually but but we have perceived in a direct way how there is nothing but Alman are showing itself in different ways when the human monad comes forth from the logos it is as though from the Luminous ocean of Atma a tiny thread of life was separated off from the Rest by a film of buddhic matter and from this hung a spark which becomes enclosed in an egg-like casing of matter belonging to the formless levels of the mental plane so now from the point of view of form anibasan describes again like a metaphoric in a metaphorical way how we can conceive this higher Triad of a human being Alma budhi and Manas so there is this she says luminous ocean of Alman pervading everything everywhere and there is like a tiny thread of light that has a film around that we could call buddhic matter and uh and there is a spark there which is the the spark of self-consciousness uh in a in a diagram in the next uh slide we can see a diagram that you know again this is not how things are in reality but more or less what Annie besant is explaining they are in a in a metaphorical way we have almond the adman is only one for everything this is our true self but then there are like different ways and the there is the the boric matter that that produces like a a ray of it and then we have the spark of of manassic Consciousness and the causal body and here we have two different individuals which are just different manifestations of the same admin so this can be a you know graphical form of uh to understand how we all are but one nature expressing itself in different ways as Evolution proceeds this luminous egg grows larger and more opalescent and the tiny thread becomes a wider and wider Channel through which more and more of the atmic light Pours Down finally they merge the third with the second and the twain with the first as flame merges with flame and no separation can be seen so there is a kind of absorption of the monastic Consciousness in the budic and that's when this is calling theosophy budimanas and that's when the person perceives the unity of life although there is still essence of individuality and eventually these two merge into the the the pure sense of being everything everywhere you know any time and uh that would be when Nirvana is realized so at that point she says it's like if you if you merge uh or blend two flames you don't have one flame on top of the other you have to have you just have a brighter flame so something like this happens as as the these different aspects of Consciousness merge into each other you just have a Unity that is brighter the evolution of the fourth and fifth planes belongs to a future period of our race but those who choose the harder path of swifter progress May tread it even now on that path the Bliss body is quickly evolved and a man begins to enjoy the consciousness of that loftier region and knows the Bliss which comes from the absence of separative barriers the wisdom which flows in when the limits of the intellect are transcended so there is a natural flow of evolution and in that natural flow the these higher planes that we are talking about will be realized gradually by by most Humanity in the future in future cycles of evolution however we can realize our true nature faster if we pay attention to this let's say that way now why we would like to realize it faster well that's a difficult question to answer but I guess is not realizing what we really are is what produces suffering suffering to for ourselves and for the the world so if you are okay with you know going through a few more eons suffering and then letting Evolution take you there I guess that's perfectly fine but if we want to break free from the illusion and the the suffering and sorrow and separation then we may try to pay to to be more active in trying to discover who or what we really are and that's what Annie besan says they are that path is always open we can always try to look into this in a more active way so that we can realize our true nature without having to wait for nature to to do it for us and part of of this attempt we have seen already is to begin to develop this and so selfish in personal love and also this implies a Transcendence of the limits of the intellect as any person says so there is there is an effort if we want to put it that way in going Beyond a mental or intellectual understanding of the world that is always work based on ideas memory experience and also that so that would be the transcending the mind but also we need to transcend the human heart in the sense of the the personal the self-centered emotion to give room to a more a wider impersonal emotion which is this true love then the wheel of reincarnation that binds the soul in the lower worlds is escaped and comes the first foretaste of the Liberty which is found perfected on the nirvonic plane so the the idea here is that as we walk in that direction we begin to perceive uh as she says they are the the the sense of non-separation and the Bliss or Harmony or peace that comes associated with that that would be the the bodic plane the buddhic perception and and then eventually the the atomic perception or nibonic perception can be realized now before we go to the next paragraph So that we understand the background the world the word Nirvana which is a Sanskrit word literally means to something that is blown out especially like the flame of a candle so Nirvana is many times interpreted as being a state in which the individual Consciousness has been blown out and just as the candle loses the flame the human being loses individual Consciousness forever so many times this is interpreted in the sense of annihilation Nirvana is the annihilation of anything that that we know as as a being anything conditioned now since the very beginning the theosophical literature is saying that that is a misinterpretation of what Nirvana is and even what the Buddha said and today you can find some Scholars that agree with that and some other Scholars still interpret Nirvana as a in the sense of annihilation Ed has a question or raise your hand go ahead um yeah recently I read that in the time of Buddha uh they they represented sort of the three Passions of greed and lust and as the fires and that Nirvana was essentially blowing out those three detrimental Passions you know that's a that's a different interpretation it's a it's uh uh we don't think of those uh as flames and so we don't get the metaphor of the Run of basically um losing you know your fear and your greed and you're lost and that's that's all Nirvana is yeah that's interesting um in in the theosophical view too when talking about manners uh it it's uh there is a description like the the 49 fires and uh how Manas you know can illumine or or or share a sense of individuality with body and by by that it makes buddhi also like uh brilliant or or fiery so we could we could interpret that blowing out in in that sense too to the from the theosophical perspective now yeah the the concept of what Nirvana is in Buddhism is very complex and and very interesting in the as I said in the theosophical view is never related to annihilation in an absolute sense from a certain point of view it is the annihilation of everything that you that you know right now because what we know are the Shadows so when you see the sun all Shadows are dissipated that doesn't mean that everything is dissipated that there is nothing left and that's how Nirvana sometimes has been interpreted that everything is annihilated so there is an Annihilation there is a dissipation of everything that is not true and whatever is left it's beyond its unknown unknown in the in the more radical sense because it's a state that we simply don't know so go ahead and yeah what do you want to add yeah the other thing I read is that Buddhism sort of took the Hindu idea of frames uh in the Hindu uh idea the Flames are essentially uh the Flames of creation and you know it's a good thing I mean it's like the flame of Agni or things like that any sort of uh put it on its head as a uh as a way to get people's attention and says well I'm talking about the claims that are negative and that the goal is to get rid of these negative flames Yes actually that reminds me of the mystics for example in the the mystics would say we have to leave the world of creation and go to the Creator himself you know in the Christian mysticism for example and that always got them into problems because in Christianity essentially is dualistic you know God is something that is completely Beyond you and there is no we don't really share nature with God that's the regular Christianity the mystics would say differently but in the same way we could say uh the the fires that generate creation we have to go beyond them and admin is actually a homogeneous plane that is beyond the differentiation so in that sense also it could be interpreted you blow out the the fire of the manifestation because you you go to the root of manifestation so let's see what hawani besan describes this the Nirvana Consciousness is the antithesis of annihilation it is existence raised to a vividness and intensity inconceivable to those who know only the life of the senses and the mind so that's how she describes it and she says it is real existence but those words mean nothing to us because we only know us existence whatever we know about it but she says only when you when you experience it then you can understand how pale our experience is you know outside of the Nirvana consciousness in Nirvana dwell the mighty beings who accomplished their own human evolution in past universes and who came forth with the logos when he manifested himself to bring this universe into existence they are his ministers in the administration of the worlds the perfect agents of his will yeah so again there are beings that they are constantly in this state of consciousness the state of consciousness of Atma is beyond any form anybody so you could say that it's a formless non-material state of unity and at that level we have the the root of the forces that from which manifestation comes the Lords of all the hierarchies of the Gods and lower ministrants that we have seen working on the lower Plains have here their Abiding Place for Nirvana is the heart of the universe once all its life currents proceed hence the great breath comes forth the life of all and thither it is in drawn when the universe has reached its term there is the beatific vision for which Mystics long there is the unveiled Glory the supreme goal so admin is the admin plane is the source of everything and uh the the root any being or entity you see in the universe is there on the atomic plane at least that when we talk about the manifested aspect of it and um and that that is the the supreme goal as she says the the the vision of the Mystic when they say uh God and I were one they are talking about the the admik experience Universal Brotherhood the Brotherhood of humanity nay the Brotherhood of all things has its sure foundation on the spiritual Plains the atmik and buddhic for here alone is unity and here alone perfect sympathy is found we have not to make Brotherhood it exists we have to attune our lives into harmony with it so as we have seen the unit is the source of everything so when the theosophical society uh the first object is to form a nucleus of universal Brotherhood that doesn't mean that we need to force or create a Brotherhood not only of humanity as she says but of all things because that that Brotherhood already exists that is the nature of everything the problem is that the perception of that Brotherhood is only on the spiritual planes again don't think that we are talking about going somewhere else to perceive this we are talking about States Of Consciousness so he at this moment if I'm just perceiving myself separate from you I'm on the monastic plane I'm perceiving from from the monastic point of view the mental point of view um it is only when we raise our Consciousness to the buddhic or admin planes or or states that there is no doubt that we are one and that is the the central aim of the theosophical society is to form a nucleus of people that are working in that direction that are working in the direction of actually perceiving this Unity that is behind everything of course this is a huge task and it's not something that is easily accomplished but that is our Direction Where We are going or or in what direction we are working the intellect is the separative principle in man that marks off the eye from the not eye that is conscious of itself and sees all else as outside itself an alien it is spontaneously combative its very nature being to assert itself as different from others and here we find the root of separateness the ever-springing source of Divisions among men from the plane of the intellect downwards the world presents a scene of conflict bitter in proportion as the intellect mingles in when you read dialogues with some enlightened beings and you see people asking how to solve the the problems of the world most of the times you will see that they say the problems of the world are in your mind and that has a deep meaning that is stiff is hardly ever you know perceived when when we read these things because it does not mean that there aren't people you know suffering hunger or or or different kinds of of pain and suffering and difficulties but the problem of the world is that our perception is stuck at the mental level and the mental level is this level that separates everything that puts everything in contrast it is you and me it is good at and bad it is this Duality which is the source of all the problems in the world so if we want to solve the problems of the world we have to work in that direction in the direction of transcending the intellect both on an individual basis and on a collective plane not that you can push anybody to transcend the intellect but we can try to help each other to to work on on in in that direction as I said so the intellect is or the mind is the source of all the problems in humanity from this point of view the passion nature is only spontaneously combative when it is stirred by the feeling of desire and finds anything standing between itself and the object of its desires but it becomes more and more aggressive as the Mind inspires its activity for then it seeks to provide for the gratification of future desires and tries to appropriate more and more from the stores of nature so this is how the how the different expressions of uh the emotions in in animals and human beings can produce very different results because in animals where the mind is highly Awakening there may be aggression but there is an aggression as a result of an actual situation there or there may be you know hunger only when there is really hunger now when this personal aspect is tied to the mind then that personal aspect becomes far more dangerous and and becomes a problem it is not a problem in the animal world when it becomes entangled with the mind it is a problem because now we generate a lot of feelings that are intellectualized feelings like greed trying to gather for the future or or you know Vengeance or cruelty these are all things that appear when the the Mind extends a particular emotion you know emotions by themselves just react to the immediate situation the mind has the ability of extending this and therefore producing a lot of problems but Unity is at once felt when the buddhic plane is reached as though we stepped from a separate Ray diverging from all other Rays into the sun itself from which radiate all the Rays alike a man who has once consciously attained the buddhic plane feels the Brotherhood that others speak of as an ideal and pours himself out into anyone who wants assistance giving mental moral astral physical help exactly as it is needed so the buddhic plane is described not only as a plane of unity as an investor says here but also a plane of love and a plane of wisdom when we perceive from a buddhic point of view there is a spontaneous knowledge of how to respond to people's needs the mind doesn't have a direct contact with the world everything that comes through the Mind comes through a kind of mechanism that is generated by experience and memory is conditioned by all this so when somebody is is talking to us and asking us to help for example at the mental level we have to think about it try to figure out what's the best thing to do we we may not know we may you know perhaps take the wrong direction but on the boutique level there is a direct perception of what has to be done or said or not said or not done and and that is spontaneous he sees all beings as himself and feels that all he has is theirs as much as his nay in many cases as more theirs than his because their need is greater their strength being less so do the Elder Brothers in a family bear the family burdens and shield the little ones from suffering and privation to the spirit of Brotherhood weakness is a claim for help and loving protection not an opportunity for oppression so this is typically Humanity if somebody is stronger than the other the the stronger one will tend to dominate it dominate him or her or manipulate him or use him in some way or from the bodic point of view the perception of weakness arises or generates a sense of protection not of exploitation and that's what happens in families in Healthy Families you protect your little brother you don't try to exploit him so when a person begins to perceive from the body level weaknesses and and you know all these things are May generate feelings so the feelings that I was describing or you know anger or or different feelings like this they don't appear the only thing that appears is this sense of the need for to protect to help to guide this recognition moreover is accompanied by the knowledge that the stage in evolution reached by different human and non-human beings depends chiefly on what we may call their age some began their journey in time very much later than others though the powers in each be the same some have unfolded far more of those Powers than others simply because they have had a longer time for the process than their younger brethren as well blame and despise the seed because it is not yet a flower the bud because it is not yet the fruit so this is also very important to understand because evolution is not like a race that you say said go and we all start running and then if I'm more evolved it's because I'm faster better than the rest uh evolution is a natural process the Divine Sparks begin to grow all at different points and different times and that a person is more evolved than the other means nothing in truth it is just a particular stage of growth as any business is there it's not that a rose that is you know has not flowered is less evolved or less valuable than a rose that is already in bloom so this is how the mind normally see things if you are this complete competitive way and you are better than the rest but in the theosophical view there is no foundation for for any judgment uh in that level you know each person is at a stage particular stage of growth and there is no moral judgment about it the very word Brotherhood identity of blood and inequality of development and it therefore represents exactly the link between all creatures in the universe all that a man would do for his brother of the flesh dear to him than himself is the measure of what he owes to E2 shares with him the one life so that's the idea that brothers or siblings are all of different ages and that's what happens in the universe every Divine spark is is on a different age of of evolution so to say and this is a good way to try to to visualize our ideal if you have a a dear brother or sister that you know you can normally think uh younger than you many times we gloss over the the weaknesses of people we love and we we are understanding with them and you know we justify their weaknesses but we don't do that at all with the neighbor so that these two begin to develop that kind of perception in which we can deal with everybody as if they were our siblings in that in that sense and that will lead you to the buddhic perception where you begin to realize that they not only are your siblings but they are just another expression of you of yourself the recognition of this Brotherhood intellectually and the Endeavor to live it practically are so stimulative of the higher nature of man that it was made the one obligatory object of the theosophical society the single article of belief that all who would enter its Fellowship must accept to live it even to a small extent cleanses the heart and purifies the vision to live it perfectly would be to eradicate all stain of separateness and to let the pure shining of the self irate irradiate us as a light through Flawless glass so I think these are the the final uh words let me that that we we are going to present here and um as any besan used to say the only thing that a person must agree upon to come to the TS is the idea of Brotherhood that person may not be too willing to to do a comparative study or to study the hidden loss of Nature and latent powers in human being but if the person is not does not agree with the ideal of Brotherhood then that person cannot be a member of the society and many times we interpret this idea of Brotherhood in a superficial way the recognition of Brotherhood is the Awakening of the buddhic and the admic Consciousness in ourselves so it's it's the essence of the theosophical path as well as the many spiritual paths so this is why we do all this and if we keep that as as they become that guides are our journey then we'll we begin to learn how to use anything we do study meditation service our relationship with other people we we try to deal with all that so that it can help us in that what single in the single direction of realizing the unity of our life you know in this chapter there are a few practical hints that can help us or that we can take in our spiritual life which are very important in most spiritual Traditions are these are mentioned but if your mind needs some more explanation or Foundation why these are important I think this kind of study helps so you know we know the that when we must love our neighbors as ourselves and that you know we we hear from all traditions this idea of love and and compassion but many times it is interpreted as a moral injections something that we need to do to please God or to please the divine from this point of view you can see how this is not a mere moral commandment it is how we can realize our true nature which is the true nature of everybody so these are very practical hints that are not new on the Practical level but that may have a new light thrown on them have you um talked about more reading on this subject what books they can look at to read more um well there is an interesting book on the SP you know on the lower planes the uh LED Builder Road on these different planes like the astral plane uh that explains that length of the the qualities of of the astral plane then he wrote the devachanic plane which talks about the mental plane then for the higher planes there is a bug that is called the monad and he describes the higher Consciousness they are admi cambodic so these three books could be a good something that can complement our our study blavaski didn't describe the the planes too much into much detail uh she did talk about that I'm actually writing a book about it but you you see all these teachings spread around uh her writings part of what I'm trying to do is to collect it together um but I would say that those who are interested in the in the this subject could read the astral plane the devotionic plane and the manad Violet beater