FRAGMENTS OF AN OPALESCENT CONSCIOUSNESS. PART I

 

FRAGMENTS OF AN OPALESCENT CONSCIOUSNESS

 

I look and I saw: great structures where being built by a huge number of people, kind of pharaonic canalizations in polished stone of a very large extension to have water flowing over earth, with some smaller derivation on the sides of the main canalization as to built a kind of network to have the water flowing in different direction: I was really astounded for the greatness of the work and the general atmosphere of it, plus the immense number of people involved in that operation, then my intuition told me it was not real water but rather water/consciousness, those were canalizations for the consciousness to be spread over earth at a certain point of its history, in future times, when people would have understood the power of gathering together to consciously collaborate with the master plan of  the Divine, represented by a symbolic Pharaoh who seemed directing that large enterprise. I had the clear conviction that all that was in conformity  with what Sri Aurobindo said about the unfolding of the consciousness over earth, a consciousness which needed a new and greater network so to be effectively established on earth.

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While the physical body slept I see a large tent mounted below some trees, I open the curtain at the entrance and I see Sri Aurobindo and Mother sitting, she is at his left side, both dressed in white as I know they would when giving a darshan at the ashram. They are staring silently at me while I am overpowered by the tremendous vision, because they really seem alive in their full Presence.

At the entrance there is a piece of paper on the soil with what looks like a message written with a pencil and I read: “ When you finish with your little initiations then you will receive Initiation”.

It of course is a personal matter, my little initiations in human relations, my studies on plants and a collaborative way to relate with them, even with drugs proceeding from plants, and a large etcetera, but it has a wider meaning which can be applied to people in general, meaning people practicing yoga, which at some extent are involved in “little initiations”, as for them too, when the time has come and the little initiations reach an end, would receive Initiation. Which is why I make this vision known,  to reflect about it, about our little initiations and how far or how close they take us to the real Initiation, which as it seems, will came from both Masters when we are following at some extent their yoga as a purpose in life, and certainly I make this known not to claim any special power or whatever, nor for the need to satisfy an ego claiming for attention on itself, as for sure, I´m rather interested of what Mother and Sri Aurobindo think about my progress in their yoga than any comment coming from whomever read these my notes. If something, I openly recognize certain natural disposition to have visions, in meeting people known or unknown to me in subtler levels of consciousness, guides or instructors, and I can say as Mother did: “ In life, the most precious things are among those you do not see with your physical eyes”. (Mother's Agenda, November 8, 1969)

When the series of encounters with Sri Aurobindo and the visions he  allowed me to witness for sharing where about to end I did not see him physically anymore but felt him as an invisible Presence at my side, it lasted a few days more and it was quite regular.

Just before opening my eyes at morning, I would see a large flat stone which was in front of my water mill and at morning that stone were bathed by the morning sun, then I would feel his Presence and see myself sitting on that large flat stone and he would always and only talk about “this consciousness” and its characteristics, He never used such terms as Supermind or Overmind, but simply said “this consciousness”. I frankly don’t remember now any of these conversations but the final phrase which would put an end to our meetings, and the final phrase it was: “Remember, nobody will be excluded by this consciousness”. These conversations lasted some three or four days, always at the same time before opening my eyes at morning, then a definitive silence signed the end of that experiences with him, at least for a season, because in the following years I had several occasions to enjoy again of his Presence, both in visions or a particular message which like everything else before, was meant to be shared and not for my own benefit. This message I put in my blog which describe my experiences with him, I mean, that series of meetings and visions that after his own will were required to be made public to reach the general audience but especially those practicing his yoga, but I will give it here again in this new series for the ones which have not read it yet.

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THE REVELATORY WORK OF ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH

 For some unexplainable  reason those who follow one or another discipline, religion or spiritual leader are often unwilling to recognize the merits, nay, even the evident proof of a real awakening of the soul when this happens in people which do not belong to their own beliefs, and yet, great saints and Masters have been talking of the fundamental unity of all religion, creeds and yogas as leading to one and the same God. This also means that in spite of all appearances and differences the awakening of the soul is a universal possibility for every human being independently of the path they follow.

Surely in future years when people will feel free to investigate into different  spirituality without any fear and moved by the impulse towards a synthetic truth, the outstanding figure of Anne Catherine Emmerich will give more than one reason for wonder, and pretext for connection with other oriental streams of spirituality: her visions (actually authentic akashic registers) relating the life and deeds of the Master Jesus are not only to be considered authentic but of a character willingly revelatory, and at such an extent that could be considered a new Gospel in itself.

At the moment the only reference I may send the reader for more information is a complete enough english/spanish web page on her life and visions:  http://annecatherineemmerich.com 

Revelation is a condition of Grace, it has always a purpose even if at first it is not understood by the men and women of their time, and it has always the purpose of enlarging the human understanding about life on earth and the unfolding of a spiritual consciousness over the planet.

Anne Catherine was born in 1774 in Germany in a very pious and poor  christian family, since her childhood she had visions of who in future years will become her Master, her beloved Jesus Christ. We may suspect that in a previous life she was probably familiar to Jesus as a disciple or she witnessed herself some of the events  she later describes in her visions. 

 Before her twenties she tried several times to enter a monastery but she couldn't because of her poverty. Of late she was admitted but it could be possible only for a few years: when the French Revolution had a side effect of closing several monasteries and churches in Europe, she was again obliged to leave her secluded life and was received in the home of a pious widow where Anne Catherine remained till her death.

Losing the peace, silence and loneliness between the wall of the monastery was not an obstacle to her for developing such an intense love for Christ as  to receive the stigmata,  due to her frail health and the pain she patiently bore for the stigmata in her later years was obliged in bed and her last twelve years she only survived on plain water and a daily sacred Host.

Beside her own life which was the reason for declaring her a Beate, her most outstanding feature were her visions about the deeds and Passion of Jesus the Nazarene, often related with an astounding precision of details  and filling the narrative of  other Gospels with unknown pages on the life, deeds an whereabouts of the Master.

Beside the life of Christ there were other visions concerning the present (her present) and future of the Church  which offended her sensibility and her religious feelings for they exposed the dryness or even the corruption and meant an implicit warning to the ecclesiastical hierarchies.

 She was foretold that a man would appear to help her in registering the complete  narrative of her visions and when that was done she would finally die, as well as the writer.

 Clemente Brentano, a romantic poet friend of Goethe became her faithful friend and associated himself for life with her, writing her spoken narrative coloured of many dialectical words Anne Catherine made use of in her speech  into an understandable and readable german language.  

 Things happened exactly as she was foretold, after her passing away, Brentano had the time to put in a definitive copy all his work before dying himself too. When she was declared a Beate by the Christian Church only her life, but not her visions, was taken into account because they were not written first hand but by someone who could have modified them or altered their meaning.

 We may assume with a reasonable degree of certainty that were the  visions widely known as they deserved to be, the Church would have been in need to defend itself from an uncomfortable position.

 But revelation is of a divine origin and escapes any attempt of controlling it, its purpose is exactly this: the sharing of the truth with the whole body of believers and it will not fail its purpose. Eventually, in coming years the ostracism imposed on the visions will be removed and the revelation they contain fully shine for all to be seen while spiritually fed by the truth they contain, which is the purpose and usefulness of every revelation.   

 In the images, Anne Catherine Emmerich and Clemente Brentano.

ATEM-PAGES OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

It was a beautiful early-Spring sunny-morning in Naples.

 It was Spring ´75,  I went for a walk, my skin was gladly warmed by the early sun-rays and the eyes glad to enjoy the brightness of everything under the sunshine.

 A black spot born in the bowels of time lurked behind the corner of the road: my wife  came to tell me the Carabinieri were searching for me, I quickly took in consideration  all the possibilities, even to run away, but somehow the sunny side of life made me confiant if not in everything else, yes in myself: I decided to face the events and went just to their encounter.

I was in my twenties, was married, two kids, and a dog, I was a rebel, some kind of rare anarchist-spiritualist-revolutionary psychedelic-painter & poet searcher after the Truth.

 I´d read pages of the poem Savitri by Sri Aurobindo and Yogananda's autobiography, weaves of renovation swept the world and that morning I was walking about with my peace pipe and my last poem in my pockets.

The two Carabinieri  stop a passing  car and intimated the driver to take us to the next police station.  I was among them in the rear seat.

Holding me as a criminal they took me inside the police station close to my house, the same police station which saw me every sunday morning in the garden in front of it with my wife, two babies and Luigi, our dog. (If the dog belonged to us or we belonged to him is a theme to develop separately).

They put on me some old fashioned handcuffs with screws and chains around  my wrists and ask me why I refused to serve the Army.

I said I had two childs and no spare time for the Army, and anyway as a pacifist I did not agree with their opinion on several matters.

 (As a matter of fact Luigi has never loved a uniform either and whenever he saw one by the stroller while with the kids he would eloquently growl as against a potential enemy).

We take you to jail because since two years now you never presented yourself to serve in the Army.
Actually I had already thrown twice the military postcard in the toilet and pulled the chain, I couldn't believe it would get so serious.
I had a very large smile in my face, I was in a kind of ecstatic trance for the sudden realization that they could imprison my body but not my spirit,   and one of them said:- You smile, this is a serious matter, nothing to laugh about!
When I answered that they could chain my body but not my ideals, that in my mind  I was forever free they look at me as to an alien and closed the door of the jail.

A few hours later I was escorted to a military prison in an official car.

The formal interrogation started asking me if I was a Jehovah's Witness or a draft dodger.

-I´m sorry but I am neither, I represent myself.

- Nay, nay, you -must- be one of those two, please choose: are you a J.´s W. or a draft dodger?

-Sir again, I do not belong to any of those groups, I just represent myself.

The policemen look at me with impatience eager to validate with a cross one of the two choices, there was not an entrance as "representing himself". 

- Are you a Jehovah's Witness?

- No I'm not.

-Then you are a draft dodger said the official glad to find a solution.

-Why didn't you show up at the Army? We´ve been searching for you two years now.

I was tempted to answer that I was not interested at all in the Army and had better things to do, but I attempted an explication so I said: You see sir, borders between nations are an artificial thing to me, in my vision of things there are no borders and no difference between humans, we all belong to the human species. If you want to serve in the Army you can do it, but as for myself I decline the requirement.

The official had an upset look at me, the interrogatory exceeded his understanding and was interrupted having me back to jail.

Two days later a literate and cult colonel was sent from the Capitol just for me in order to understand who the hell I was and what I was saying.

I answered to the same question with a larger explication seeing that my listener was able to understand my point of view when I talked about the absence of borders.

-Yes, he answered, but what would you do if the enemy would suddenly put at risk your existence and that of your family?

- There would be no enemy if there were no borders to defend. 

The colonel was a bit disappointed by my answer, evidently he had never taken in consideration the absence of borders equal to absence of enemies, he was educated firmly  believing in a motherland, in borders to defend and enemies to defeat, and now he had someone in front of him that questioned his very belief.

He seemed to get interested in my frame of mind and ask for my vision of thing, I answered I was a peaceful person interested in yoga and a spiritual transformation, moreover right in that moment my place was with my family and kids, not in the Army neither in a prison.

There was no space in the interrogation for my kind of answers, it was the first time that  someone questioned their very belief rather than defending a cult or being a fugitive.

A date for the trial was assigned and a duty solicitor came to see me.

He was an aged man, father of family, and as a father he ask me if I wanted to remain in jail till my 47th because that was  the military law in my case. I thought of my wife and childrens, I did not consider that awful perspective. He suggested me to claim my absence due to a very serious illness, in that case they had to send me back to Naples at  the military hospital  for tests, meanwhile I could reunite with my family. 

So I did and the next day I was at the hospital claiming a terrible stomach ache every time they touch my belly. They prognosticate gastritis or ulcer and send me at home for three months to see any betterment.

Next visit I played a superlative role of a person affected by a persistent stomach ache that could hardly stand on his legs and I bent in two for the pain right there and then.

They gave me three more months to enjoy with my family in an enviable health.

Back again three months later the surprised colonel at the hospital in seeing me still around  said: What the fuck, are you still here?

-Mister colonel I'm very sick, I can't eat without throwing up most of the times (that was a last-minute addition to my list of sufferings).

-Now, you get out of my sight he said, right? I don't want to see you here anymore, he stamped his signature on a piece of paper which said I was permanently unable to serve in the Army.

 My health seemed suddenly to improve while taking firmly hold of the sheet of paper and tried not to run out of sight with my health completely restored.  

So I got rid of the Army and when back home we made a small family party celebrating the issue with Luigi happily barking around all of us.

 

    

B. DE CLAIRVAUX, AN EARLY ADEPT OF THE MOTHER

 BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX, AN EARLY ADEPT OF THE MOTHER

When we look at the traditional painting of the catholic imagery portraying Bernard de Clairvaux  while breastfed by Mother Mary we may think of it as a legend rather then a real miracle, certainly Bernard was a great devotee of the divine Mother, but the painting has rather an occult meaning: at the fashion of the time and in the veiled language of the Alchemist and the occultist it depicts the Adept.

The painter knew the occultist language and represented there the Adept while is fed by the Lac Virginis of the universal Mother, the Mother of Wisdom dear to the Alchemist and to the occult philosopher. More than a saint to the devotee, Bernard was considered a real Adept by the Alchemist.

In fact the existence of a branch of esoteric Christianism and the Holy Inquisition made it necessary a veiled message for this otherwise universal figure of a real adept of the Universal Mother as he was esteemed at his time.

Bernard had a strong urge for a monastic life at his early twenties, but he was not alone at the door of the Monastery of Citeaux, his religious drive was so strong that his brothers and several knights followed him when he went to take leave of them.

 The aged monk at the door could not believe at his eyes in seeing  that powerful group of knights and a lad on their horses pleading to be admitted to the Order. He runned as fast as he could on uncertain steps to inform the Abbot.

The venerand Stephen Harding, the Abbot of Citeaux had been seeing his aged monks dye one by one; of late,  but a handful of old monks and he himself were surviving between the silent walls.

 Stephen Harding, a great devotee of the divine Mother had been asking her a new lymph to vivify its monastery and his vision of a great spiritual regeneration of Europe, he could not understand why the Holy Mother gave him that vision without the means to realize it, and when the doorkeeper rushed into his room, Stephen knew that his prayers had been fulfilled.

In a few decades hundreds of Cistercian monasteries appeared all over Europe and thousands of monks embraced the austerity of the most rigorous branch of the Benedictine Order, at the same time, the ambitious plan to create an esoteric Order, the Templars, which would help to unify Europe under the rule of the Church, or rather of the Divinity were materialized by Stephen through his most outstanding disciple: Bernard de Clairvaux. 

Both Stephen and Bernard had celtic blood in their veins and had been fed in the belief of a prodigal universal Mother which ruled the creation, something in opposition with the judaic belief common at that time of a vengeance full male God frightening his devotees.

Both Master and disciple were successful in infusing the Catolicism with the celtic cult to a Mother in love with Her creation rather than at war with it, but their was more than a simple belief, they both were Adepts at the feet of the universal Mother and their was not a pretentious plan but followed Her own design for Europe and the world at large.

Physically Bernard was not as the painters drew him, he had a very pale skin, pale blue eyes and pale blond large hairs, a very thin figure made even more so for the rigorous austerities, with a powerful gaze that could frighten his observer. The paintings representing him have nothing in common with his real, emaciated figure, he had not the ecclesiastic tonsure and his hair long to the neck.

In earlier years Stephen had to run away from England, he was brotherly received in a french monastery when  hostility grew among monks with a relaxed way of living, Stephen and a small group where rather prone to reestablish the ancien austerity of the monastic life, but they met with a fierce resistance.

When Sri Aurobindo  slightly mentioned a previous life in which he was warmly received in France, some was led to believe in Leonardo da Vinci, but the words he used were those one would choose talking of simple, religious people rather describing the pump of a french monarchy as would be the case.

  I was unable in meeting with the original sentences to report here, but researches could be made that corroborate my conviction that Stephen Harding has been a previous incarnation (a Vibhuti) of Sri Aurobindo, and the work Stephen did, the spreading of the cult to the Mother and a Citadel of God which was supposed to become Europe are clear signs of the far viewing sight of a great spirit and the action of an Adept.

 In comparison, the brilliant mind and skill of Leonardo would not stand the humble but powerful action of spiritual regeneration which was set in motion in Europe by the austere Abbot, yet an almost unknown figure to his contemporaries and to the following generations.

Sometimes the work of an Adept of the divine Mother has not need to be known and recognised by the society, he works for the Mother and She only knows that he is fulfilling Her very purpose, a few may know, but, as in the paintings of the Adept fed by the Lac Virginis, the message goes in silent and cryptic symbols only accessible to the holder of the key.

Stephen could well be a powerful Vibhuti of the late Sri Aurobindo, and as the Master said, a Vibhuti do not has any need to know itself as a Vibhuti in order to accomplish his work, or it may come to know about it in later years when most of his work is accomplished.

The whole yoga of Sri Aurobindo is centered on the Mother doing her work within the disciple, both the humble Stephen and Sri Aurobindo infused the devotee and the spiritual researcher with  the necessity to reconnect with the original Mother, their action has deeply influenced both West and East, and surpassing the purpose of Stephen and Aravinda we may read a great divine purpose preparing the Age of the Mother.

As a matter of fact, to vivify the cult to Herself in the heart of the devotee, under Her form of Mother Mary, the universal Mother appeared several times in Europe noticeably to young people as in the case at Fatima and Lourdes, but these were not the only one and even recently in places around the world there have been apparition of Mother Mary.

One outstanding and revealing apparition happened in Africa to a poor she devotee. The divine Mother appeared into the hut of the devotee in an almost desertic environment.

Pleading the devotee to worship Her for the following days the Mother assured her that a spring of water would appear soon in her very humble hut as  it later happened, that a temple had to be erected there to shelter the spring, and this connection of the healing water with the divine Mother is revealing in such, that some  places of cult are and will be healing temples in the Age of the Mother, in the future of a regenerated and spiritualized human species.   

This connection of the healing water with the universal Mother is an outstanding fact, in many cultures water appears to have healing and sanctifying power, the aspersion with holy water and the baptism in the west or the ritual ablution into the water before worshipping and the offering of water to the divinity in the east both reveal the conviction of a healing power related with the water. 

Water is considered to have "memory" and the characteristic to get impregnated by the aura of the mystics becoming the vehicle of a healing process, possibly the human species needs to recuperate a genuine approach to the water, with the need to protect its effluents and recuperate its use as a healing vehicle rather than persisting with an utilitaristic use of it.

The very survival of the species is founded over the access to pure clean water to billions of individuals, and this fact has to be taken in consideration by the yoga practitioner, every effort and action should be made to promote it as a priority on scientific or political agendas.

A worldwide movement for the protection of water would agglutinate around it any kind of people independently of his culture, religion, political party, age or social status, it could become a very powerful instrument of pressure on the policies of governing powers. Artists and intellectuals should be summoned to convey the message into society. 

The protection of the water makes people communed with a different attitude not only with water but with its surroundings too and lately with everything that exists.

 The connection of the human being with the Holy Mother through the healing water is the mark of Her purpose for the Age of the Mother, when a wide spread attitude of respect will generate the affluence of people to the Temples of Healing Water for healing, worshipping and connection with the Mother.

The cult to the one original Mother is expected to substitute any other form of cult on the planet, human beings will be communed into a general worship and recognition of Her purpose both with the individuals and the planet they dwell. 

This will be a great epoch for humanity impulsed by a common spiritual rush and urge, the time of the plenitude of the Era of the Mother, when Initiates will dwell among people, yoga and spiritual disciplines will be common in large sectors of society, and the appearance of Savitri on earth, the first human being integrally divine from birth will take place to show the next tread to immortality for the humanity as a whole.

Sri Aurobindo promised to come back on earth in a body fully overmentalized, immune to death and expressing the full power of his divine condition.

 The conquest of death by humanity as a whole represents the divine plan for this planet, once that achieved, will not be the end but the beginning of associated planetary consciousness, the beginning of a new unthinkable adventure into higher levels of awareness and connection with other galactic human beings and forces which operates at higher levels of existence.  

  

Pearls of a synthetic truth/Perlas de una verdad sintética

 (english/español)

Followers of one or another Guru very often proof their inability for a synthetic Truth, to them, only their own Guru may talk about the “real” Truth while all the other Gurus lie and if they don´t lie anyway their teaching fall short when compared with that of their own Guru. We see this behaviour in religions too where "my God" is the real God and all the other God are a fake God.

Here I wish to propose some relevant  and incontestable facts, really happened, which demonstrates that among real Gurus there is not such a contradiction and that such things only belongs to the surface mind, and actually a mind unable to assimilate the Synthetic Truth.

While in America and some time before Paramahansa Yogananda left his physical body an American disciple told Him: Master, we all know that you will soon leave your body, pray take me with you, you are my God!

“Nonsense –Replied Yogananda- God is God, I´m just your Guru.  

“But Master! If you don't take me with you I will kill myself! She insisted.

“Oh, please stop with all this nonsense! God Himself is now incarnated in a human body in the South of India, his name is Sai Baba. After my departure you will go and stay with Him.

These prophecy proved to be correct because time later the woman went to live in Sai Baba ashram and never left till her death.

Swami Yogananda, which wisdom we can't doubt, spoke exactly in these terms referring to Sri Satya Sai Baba.

It so happens that Sai Baba (God Himself in Yogananda words) was born the 23^rd of November 1926 and the next day (24rd November) Sri Aurobindo informed his disciples that Sri Krishna had come down into the material (plane).

In a conversation held the 25^th August 1935 a Sri Aurobindo´ disciple asks the Master about the meaning of the 24^th November with the following words: “Which is the meaning of the 24^th November? There is disparity of opinions among your disciples. Some people say that the Avatar of the Supermind descended in you that day.

“Rubbish. Whose imagination is that?

“Well, I myself understood you achieved the Supermind that day.

“What was said was that the Divine, Krishna, had came down into the material (plane), it was proclaimed too that I would retire to work things out, if I had already achieved the Supermind that day why the hell I needed to retire? Sri Krishna had descended into my matter with an inevitable descent into connected general Matter, what is there of unclear about that?

With the affirmation from Yogananda that God Himself was incarnated and that His name was Sai Baba (born the 23^rd November) and Sri Aurobindo affirmation about the Krishna descent on the 24^th  November, we just have to assume they both were talking about one same Krishna, because we can hardly imagine some other Krishna descending into Sri Aurobindo´s and the general Matter.

Even so, disciples, students and Sri Aurobindo´s devotees pretend to ignore this True, while pretending to ignore that God Himself or Krishna had descended into a human form that very day, pretending that Krishna descent was something only concerned with Sri Aurobindo, losing in this way their opportunity to understand a Synthetic Truth affirmed by Yogananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Sai Baba´s existence itself at that moment.

This kind of attitude is not to underestimate insofar as it shows an inability to recognize the truth when we have it in front of our eyes or when we are informed of it through the Guru. It clearly indicates a mediocre level of understanding of the mind and this kind of fundamentalist game whereby only what our guru says is correct, or better yet, only what we think we have understood.

It goes without saying that this attitude is a serious hindrance to yoga in general and to integral yoga in particular, when we are supposed to move towards an integral truth and a synthetic true.

 

Los devotos de uno u otro Guru a menudo demuestran su incapacidad de una visión sintética de la Verdad, para ellos, solo su Guru ha dicho la verdad y los otros mienten, y si no mienten, en todo caso los otros Gurus no están a la altura de "mi" Guru. Podemos ver esta actitud también en las religiones, en donde "mi Dios" es el Dios auténtico y todos los demás Dio son falsos. 

Aquí propongo unos hechos incontestables, realmente acontecidos, que demuestran que entre los auténticos Gurus no existe contradicción, y que tales cosas solo pertenecen a la mente humana de superficie, y por cierto, una mente incapaz de asimilar la Verdad sintética.

Poco tiempo antes que Yogananda Paramahansa dejara su cuerpo se le acercó una discípula americana diciéndole: “Maestro, nosotros sabemos que te preparas para abandonar tu cuerpo físico, por favor llevame contigo, tu eres mi Dios!

“Tonterías – contestó Yogananda- Dios es Dios, yo soy tu Guru.

“Pero Maestro! Si no me llevas contigo cometeré suicidio!

“Está bien de tantas tonterías, el mismo Dios es ahora encarnado en el Sur de la India. Su nombre es Sai Baba. Cuando yo me vaya irás a vivir con Él.

Su profecía probó ser correcta en cuanto, tiempo después de la partida de Yogananda la discípula se fue a vivir al ashram de Sai Baba por el resto de su vida.

Este reputado Guru, habló exactamente con estas palabras con respecto a Sri Satya Sai Baba, y aquí no caben dudas o tergiversaciones ni nada de nada.

Se da la circunstancia que Sai Baba naciera el 23 de Noviembre 1926, y al día siguiente (24 Noviembre)  Sri Aurobindo informó a sus discípulos que Krishna había bajado a la Tierra.

En una conversación del 25 de Agosto 1935 un discípulo de Sri Aurobindo le pregunta sobre el significado del 24 de Noviembre con estas palabras: ¿”Cuál es exactamente el significado del 24 de Noviembre? Hay disparidad de opiniones entre tus discípulos, algunos dicen que el Avatar supermental descendió en ti.

“Tonterías – contestó Sri Aurobindo- ¿Quien dice esto?

“Bueno, yo mismo entendí que aquel día tú conseguiste la Supermente.

“Yo nunca he afirmado esto. Lo que dije fue que aquel día el Señor Krishna había bajado en el plano material. Y también dije que me retiraba a cumplir mi trabajo. Si el 24 de Noviembre hubiese alcanzado la Supermente ¿ por qué demonios habría tenido la necesidad de retirarme? Si Krishna, o la Supermente o su equivalente descendió en mi materia y en el plano material en general, ¿qué es tan poco claro con respecto a Su descenso en el plano material?

Con la afirmación de Yogananda que Dios se había encarnado en la tierra y que su nombre era Sai Baba (nacido el 23 de Noviembre), nos queda por concluir que el 24 de Noviembre el Krishna al que se refiere Sri Aurobindo es Sai Baba mismo y no otro Krishna que bajara –solo- en la materia de Sri Aurobindo.

Así y todo, los discípulos, estudiantes y devotos de Sri Aurobindo pretenden ignorar esta verdad, ignorando el descenso del mismo Dios (según afirmación de Yogananda), pretendiendo que el descenso de Krishna era algo  concerniente exclusivamente a Sri Aurobindo, y de esta manera pierden una visión sintética de la verdad y unos hechos históricos confirmados tanto por Yogananda como por Sri Aurobindo, como por Sai Baba mismo, protagonista de este hecho.

Esta clase de actitud, no es de infravalorar en cuanto demuestra una incapacidad real de absorber la verdad cuando se presenta delante de nuestros ojos, indica claramente un mediocre nivel de entendimiento de la mente y este juego fundamentalista por el cual –solo- la verdad expresada por el propio Guru tiene validez, al mismo tiempo que se demuestran incapaces de ir más allá de su misma comprensión de las palabras dichas por su Guru.

No hace falta decir que esta actitud es un serio obstáculo para el yoga en general y para el yoga integral en particular, cuando se supone que nos movemos hacia una Verdad Integral y una Verdad Sintética.   

 

 

The purpose of Avatarhood

My heart feels an undivided reverence for all the Masters of all times and whether feminine or masculine in their physical appearance, whom I had the privilege of knowing or reading  their teaching. 
All of them have a place in my heart, and I treasure the pearls of wisdom of their teaching as coming from God Itself.
This undivided reverence, which is spontaneous, builts a synthetic approach to the universal Teaching.
Of none of them I could say "I'm his disciple", and yet my heart is filled with reverence  for each of them as they each were my Masters.
My mind, my soul and the whole of my being refuse to say that "this Master is greater than the other", my personal appreciation is out of place here, they each are a perfil of the One Divine in a human shape and came to realize their part each adding of their own to the immortal Teaching.
 They together bring and present the manyfold teaching appeared in the epochs, each at his moment is the right Master,  even the beggar, the unholy or a shining star. 
They all create a synthetic Truth which is the synthetic Truth of the Kalki Avatar, the Avatar of Synthesis.

 A message of synthesis needs to be exactly that, a unifying principle where nothing and no one is excluded.  
The last and greatest teaching of the Kalki Avatar after reuniting all the different paths, would not only be that of the confirmed doctrines, religions and yogas but the path of the carpenter or the shoemaker or the housewife as all paths conducting to the only God, because nothing else than this  movement can be possible and is realized- either knowingly or unknowingly- as each soul is called to fulfil the purpose of its existence of knowing the God who created it and  knowing the very purpose of the existence of the human being on earth that every life is but a step in that direction, making the approach ever greater and wider, all-embracing and all inclusive. 

That would be the proclamation of the Avatar within everybody.

The ultimate creation of the Kalki Avatar would be the proclamation of the Avatar in every individual and each individual a path and an ascent towards the Divine. 
It is not only the synthesis of the religions or the yogas and all the spiritual paths, but the realization that even ordinary life and mundane occupations are the path the Avatar chose to create a greater and all-embracing synthesis, leading the march that the humanity has to follow to become each individual the Avatar. 

The everlasting promise of the Avatar is not just liberation, but the inner realization that only being an Avatar the humanity as a whole will be an immortal race fulfilling the very purpose of our existence here and the reason why this planet and this life was created. 

 

In writings and conversations Sri Aurobindo has convincingly affirmed that an avatar would be of no use as an example for the human march if it were since the beginning conscious of his own power.

In fact -he continues-  an avatar conscious of his divine purpose would undergo the hard human trail with a considerable advantage on his human fellows, an avatar has to toil, suffer and hope like a human being.

Sri Aurobindo in answering disciples´s questions about Avatarhood:

 My own idea of the matter is that the Avatar's life and actions are not miracles, and if they were, his existence would be perfectly useless, a mere superfluous freak of Nature. He accepts the terrestrial conditions, he uses means, he shows the way to humanity as well as helps it. Otherwise what is the use of him and why is he here?

 There are two sides of the phenomenon of Avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness behind and the instrumental personality. The Divine Consciousness is omnipotent but it has put forward the instrumental personality in Nature, under the conditions of Nature, and it uses it according to the rules of the game – though also sometimes to change the rules of the game. If Avatarhood is only a flashing miracle, then I have no use for it. If it is a coherent part of the arrangement of the omnipresent³ Divine in Nature, then I can understand and accept it.

I have said that the Avatar is one who comes to open the Way for humanity to a higher consciousness – if nobody can follow the Way, then either our conception of the thing, which is also that of Christ and Krishna and Buddha also, is all wrong or the whole life and action of the Avatar is quite futile. X seems to say that there is no way and no possibility of following, that the struggles and sufferings of the Avatar are unreal and all humbug, – there is no possibility of struggle for one who represents the Divine. Such a conception makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood; there is then no reason in it, no necessity in it, no meaning in it. The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if it is a part of the world-arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way that Avatarhood has any meaning.

The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way – he takes up human action and uses human methods with the human consciousness in front and the Divine behind. If he did not his taking a human body would have no meaning and would be of no use to anybody. He could just as well have stayed above and done things from there.

 An Avatar even does not manifest all the Divine omniscience and omnipotence; he has not come for any such unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness.
 As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine.

 When they think of a manifestation of Divinity, they think it must be an extraordinary perfection in doing ordinary human things – an extraordinary business faculty, political, poetic or artistic faculty, an accurate memory, not making mistakes, not undergoing any defeat or failure. Or else they think of things which they call superhuman like not eating food or telling cotton-futures or sleeping on nails or eating them. All that has nothing to do with manifesting the Divine... These human ideas are false.The Divinity acts according to another consciousness, the consciousness of the Truth above and the Lila below and It acts according to the need of the Lila, not according to man's ideas of what It should or should not do. This is the first thing one must grasp, otherwise one can understand nothing about the manifestation of the Divine.

The Divine does not need to suffer or struggle for himself; if he takes on these things it is in order to bear the world-burden and help the world and men; and if the sufferings and struggles are to be of any help, they must be real. A sham or falsehood cannot help. They must be as real as the struggles and sufferings of men themselves – the Divine bears them and at the same time shows the way out of them. Otherwise his assumption of human nature has no meaning and no utility and no value. It is strange that you cannot understand or refuse to admit so simple and crucial a point. What is the use of admitting Avatarhood if you take all the meaning out of it?

 The Divine when he takes on the burden of terrestrial nature, takes it fully, sincerely and without any conjuring tricks or pretence.

The Avatar is not bound to do extraordinary actions, but he is bound to give his acts or his work or what he is – any of these or all – a significance and an effective power that are part of something essential to be done in the history of the earth and its races.

An Avatar is not at all bound to be a spiritual prophet – he is never in fact merely a prophet, he is a realiser, an establisher – not of outward things only, though he does realise something in the outward also, but, as I have said, of something essential and radical needed for the terrestrial evolution which is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine.

 Ramakrishna's earlier period was that of one seeking God, not aware from the first of his identity.

Why should the Avatar proclaim himself except on rare occasions to an Arjuna or to a few bhaktas or disciples? It is for others to find out what he is; though he does not deny when others speak of him as That, he is not always saying and perhaps never may say or only in moments like that of the Gita, “I am He”.

THE VISION. RELATED FACTS II

During my experiment I was able to remain conscious in "conscious sleep" and as a result of it I was conscious too about my consciousness being an independent and autonomous center of perception that I called at that moment a "mental body", in other words, I made contact with the subtle physical, and as for my own experience at least, that mental body was at the same time or could wear a subtler body when in need of it.

It was in this subtler body that I often met Sri Aurobindo, but I'm convinced that the Master did a lot to help me, and after all "He came to me" unexpectedly, I was not thoroughly able to control my subtler experiences, it was a new set of experiences and I had not even idea that I could or would meet Sri Aurobindo.

In the course of my experiment I realized that sometimes there would be some kind of superimposed perception of the subtler body during the wake condition, it was not necessary anymore to have the physical body sleeping in order to feel the subtle body, but subtler perceptions would happen rather suddenly and unexpected with a previous quite condition of mind, a meditative attitude.

In the course of time this subtler perception grew steadily, it was possible living in the material realm having a subtler perception of it. I used to think of Sri Aurobindo as an "anchorage", whenever I focused my consciousness on the Master I was able to enter into a subtler perception of reality. I often used this means to understand the how and why my personal relation with the Master, and this subtler perception led me to remember how and when I met and served as a disciple at His feet.

In "Atem´s Notebooks" I present several akashic registers, in Number 2 and 3 I describe a Pharaoh. That Pharaoh was Sri Aurobindo in a previous life, and you may notice how concerned He was in trying to awake the real cult into the common people. My subtler perception explained me that I was (the soul in me was) the therapist which shows in both akashic registers: at that time a fervent disciple of the great Pharaoh.

While recalling to my memory my previous lives at His service, I realized I was again one of his disciples during Middle Age in Europe.

At that moment the Master was known as Stephen Harding, a saint hermit which is considered the founder of the Cisterciensis Order. But his greater work remains unknown and undervalued.

The facts are worth a closer look.

Stephan was a celtic soul, much like Bernard de Clairvaux, one of his disciple. Though Stephan was a monk of the official christian church, as a Celt he was grown up with the idea of a merciful Mother of the Universe, generous and caring with Her creatures. This belief was deeply rooted in Stephan´s soul, and was antithetical to a God depicted by the church at that time as a vengeful and angry masculine god. A divinity which everybody had to fear rather than love. 

Through Bernard de Clairvaux (his main disciple) Stephen was able to insert the cult to the Merciful Mother into Christianity contra posed to the cult to the vengeful god. 

Suddenly the cult to the Merciful Mother spread all over Europe, but the person at the root of this cult was the humble saint Stephen Harding.

When the Pharaoh asked what to do in order to awaken the real cult into the plain mind of his people, his next purpose as Stephen Harding was to awaken the real cult (the cult to the Supreme Mother) in Occident.

 He was back in Orient, and as Sri Aurobindo he awakened there the real cult to the Mother, so that both Occident and Orient received the message to awaken to the reality of the universal  Mother. In fact, the whole of Sri Aurobindo teaching is centered on the existence of a divine universal Mother, which is the Mother of Yoga.

The very center of Auroville is the Matrimandir, the Temple of the Mother. So is the divine Mother the center of Sri Aurobindo's teachings.

In this way, the ancient Pharaoh united both Occident and Orient under a same cult, it was the natural unfolding of the purpose of the Pharaoh wishing to establish the real cult on earth. And the real cult could only be one: the cult to the divine Mother.

The ancient therapist was born again as Bernard de Clairvaux, again at the service of his Master.

Bernard was not only a server of his Master, but a server of the divine Mother too.

He came back on earth at Her service in an indian body known as Ramakrishna, a very known disciple of the divine Mother. Ramakrishna´s work about the unification of religions is well known to get into it here.

The divine Mother said to Ramakrishna that he would reborn again in Europe towards the middle of the XX century. Ramakrishna himself revealed it to his closer disciples, and his words were registered.

But how strange! Could the divine Mother and Sri Ramakrishna be both wrong on that point?

Nobody has ever heard Ramakrishna be here again, in Europe, in the XX century.

If that happened, this time he probably came unnoticed, doing his work at Her service but completely unknown. At the same time he would hold memories of being one of the long term Sri Aurobindo´s disciples and surely get in touch again with his Master.

This same person will reborn in Italy again, and will erect the first Ziggurat of the Modern Era.

These are not mental speculations, are soul truths which I pass onto you. It is my work to lift a bit the veil, and it is my work because in several lives I've been working and dealing with the faculty of Vision, a Vision which is amplified by the contact with Sri Aurobindo´s Consciousness. It is this training which allowed me to receive, hold and transmit the Vision which is at the base of this blog. When you open your door to subtle perception there is not any need anymore to trust me, you will know it all by yourself. You may surely meet Sri Aurobindo in the subtle physical, but to do that you need your own perception of your subtle body. Later on you will not need any longer to actually "see" Him, whenever you get in touch with "that consciousness" you will be with Him.

 

  

       

GLI INCONTRI CON SRI AUROBINDO 9

Nel 2013 ero occupato a trasferire in questo blog le esperienze tenute con Sri Aurobindo qualche anno prima. Lo facevo mentre ero assorto in una profonda meditazione interiore, richiamando alla mente ed al cuore la presenza del Maestro e tutte le esperienze que mi permise tenere.
Mi sentivo come avvolto per la sua presenza e molto intimamente legato a Lui.
Il Giorno 22 di Gennaio di quell´anno, mentre ero intensamente concentrato su Sri  Aurobindo e mi accingevo a scrivere  si fece un improvviso silenzio nella mente e mi sentii invadere per un torrente di parole. Era il Maestro, senza nessun dubbio, ne riconobbi il linguaggio, giá precedentemente conosciuto.
Nonostante non avessi preso nota, quando terminó di parlare scoprii che le sue parole erano rimaste integramente registrate nella mia memoria, e prima che potessero scomparire le annotai perché volevo meditare a fondo sul senso di quelle parole e perché capii chiaramente che non erano dirette solo a me, ma a tutti. 
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"Questo Yoga comincia dove tutti  gli altri Yoga finiscono. Fino ad ora, gli Yoga vi hanno proporzionato le differenti possibilitá di sintonizzarvi con la Divinitá.
Questo Yoga é l´Azione che scaturisce da quella sintonia. É l´Azione Intenzionale dotata della volontá di trasformare la Vita stessa nelle illimitate possibilitá della Mente di Luce di Dio.
Questo Yoga é individualizzato sulle risorse che ognuno abbia. Perché lo Yoga della Azione Futura non si basa su stereotipi ma sulle risorse individuali e personali.
Nellla molteplice diversitá dell´Essere trova espressione l´individualitá della possibilitá, come il nostro proprio marchio unico e personale.
La fondazione che é generale per ogni individuo é che voi avete ereditato la Terra per il potere della Volontá Divina per prendervi cura di essa, per esserne coinvolti, per preservare questo dono.
Voi non potete fare qualsiasi cosa con questa Terra, l´avete ereditata dai vostri Ancestri per prendervi cura di essa, per associarvi con essa, per essere compromessi con il suo sviluppo e la sua integritá.
Perché facendo questo, vi riconettate con il Proposito Divino della vostra Presenza Quí.
Lo Yoga dell´Integritá é l´intima connessione della sfera della Mente con quella del Cuore.
Da quella unione scaturisce l´Azione Futura. L´azione dell´Essere che Voi Siete. 
É futura perché é volitivamente diretta a trasformare le future condizioni della Terra, siete chiamati a essere co-creatori scoprendo le potenzialitá interiori del vostro Essere.
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GLI INCONTRI CON SRI AUROBINDO 8

Realmente questo incontro con Sri Aurobindo che descrivo dovrebbe essere stato il primo della serie perché ebbe luego verso i miei tredici anni, ma la sua memoria rimase latente fino a una decina d´anni fa quando improvvisamente riaaparve alla memoria nel suo pieno significato.

A quell´etá non conoscevo Sri Aurobindo, peró allo largo di un breve periodo per la notte ero visitato da una guida che mi portava a visitare diversi livelli di coscienza.

L´uomo aveva capelli neri e un buon paio di baffi, mi ispirava confidenza e mi piaceva stare con lui, sentivo che con lui non avevo niente da temere in quegli strani viaggi.

Ricordo con piú dettagli il livello piú inferiore perché mi impressionó molto, gli altri superiori non erano affatto cosí angosciosi e si aprivano su spazi aperti, ma questo sembrava essere un luogo chiuso e grigio pieno di gente, peró non era gente normale, si sarebbe detto che al morire qualcosa del suo mentale aveva sopravissuto dovuto a una forte ossessione, qualcosa che aveva fortemente influenzato la vita di quelle persone,vagavano come degli spettri tra gli altri, ignari l´uno dell´altro  e ognuno inseguendo l´ossessione della loro vita. Li vedevo come gusci vuoti di umani, ma non per questo meno paurosi, sostammo con la guida in mezzo a loro e nonostante certa naturale ripulsa mi accorsi che non avevamo niente da temere perché girovagavano senza nemmeno notare la nostra presenza.

Questo livello lo ricordo meglio perché dovemmo tornare. la seconda volta dovetti essere ssottomesso a una prova: restare in mezzo a quegli spettri da solo, vedevo la rassicurante presenza dellla guida a certa distanza, peró dovevo stare da solo tra gli spettri senza che fossi soprafatto dalla paura. Superai la prova. Gli altri livelli o piuttosto il seguente era come uno spazio verde e aperto, natura, peró come in penombra.

Mentirei se dicessi che ricordo perfettamente tutti gli altri livelli che visitammo, conservo solo il ricordo di livelli ogni volta piú luminosi e la gioia che provavo tutte le volte che la guida veniva a trovarmi.

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In effetti, solo Sri Aurobindo aveva descritto con precisione i diversi livelli di coscienza ma di questo, avrei preso coscienza molti anni dopo e per tutto quel tempo la memoria di quest´esperienza era rimasta con me latente, finché per qualche ragione era affiorata spontaneamente alla superficie. 

Non ho dubbi che si trattasse effettivamente di Sri Aurobindo, anche se questo mi fa volgere la mente verso certe legittime considerazioni perché a quell´etá non sapevo nemmeno che esistesse lo yoga, né sapevo di livelli di coscienza e meno imaginarmeli, eppure, giá da allora Sri Aurobindo stava vegliando su di me.