The next morning Chander Sen continued his talk. "I
have been shown beyond a question of doubt that the human intelligence can be
transmuted into Divine Intelligence. As this was made plain to me, I found that
I could enter the Kingdom of God and that Kingdom was right within. Now I know
that God is the only power, Omnipresent and Omniscient; and that sin, discord,
sickness, old age, and death belong only to a past experience. I now perceive
the reality and know that I had been lost in the mist of illusion. Time and
space have completely disappeared and I know that I now dwell in the subjective
and that it belongs to the objective world. Had it been possible for me to have
held to the promptings and the glimpses the finer senses have revealed from
time to time, how many weary and anxious hours would I have been saved. While
in youth I, like the greater portion of humanity, decided that there was but
one life to live and that was the gratification of self in every way, so I
determined to get the most out of that life. I made self seeking the principle
aim in life and I gave the animal passions full sway, with the result that I
dissipated the life fluids of my body until it was but the empty shell that you
first saw. Let me bring forth a picture that will more graphically illustrate
my thoughts."
He sat silent for a moment and a picture like those already
described appeared upon one wall of the room. This was the picture of himself
as we had seen him a short time ago. It was that of an old man, tottering
along, leaning on his wooden staff. Following this was the likeness of the man
as he appeared this morning.
He continued, "The first represents the one
who has dissipated the energies and life fluids of his body until nothing but
the empty shell remains. The other represents the one who has conserved his
energies and the vital life fluids within his body. You look upon this in my
case as a complete and entire rejuvenation, which is true. But I look at it
from another angle. How many could be as fortunate as I was, to have the help,
sympathy, and assistance of those dear ones as I have had?
"In order that you may get my thought, let us follow
the life of a person from birth to the end, as so many look upon death. The
child is born. It is unconscious of the life-carrying fluids which course
through its body, as they are inactive because the organs that generate life
fluids are inactive and not yet developed. During this stage of development, if
the child is normal, it is beautiful, active, and bubbling over with life. The
life fluids are built up stronger and stronger, until the child reaches the
stage of development where the life fluids are active, and they may be
dissipated. If this dissipation takes place, in a few years the child begins to
show age. The eyes lose their luster, the body its activity and grace. The
features become set. In a few more years the brain loses its power of
coordination with the muscles and the body is that of a decrepit old man or
woman, but the empty shell of the former self.
"Then take the person who has conserved all the life
fluids and allowed them to circulate in their natural course through the body,
and see how strong and vigorous that one is. Should that one go on always
conserving the life fluids, even though he did not perceive any higher idea of
life than to be born, live a short time upon this earth, then pass on, the span
of that life would be extended from three to four times that of a person who
has dissipated the life fluids. If he does perceive that there is a greater
scheme in God's plan for him, he will at all times conserve the life fluids in
the body, as he soon finds that they are a necessary adjunct for perfect
development.
"It was only a short time ago that your learned men
began to know of the delicate system of arteries and veins composing the
circulatory system of your bodies. It is still left for them to determine that
there is a far more delicate and subtle circulatory system throughout the body,
which carries the life force to every atom. Through your nervous system this
life force is sent to a set of cells in the brain. These cells, in turn, act as
a distributor for the force and it is sent out to every atom of the body along
the nerves, for which it has an affinity. It also acts as a protection for the nerves.
If the life force is dissipated, the cells become set and cannot change for the
new cells (that are formed to take their place) and the new cells are thrown
off instead of the old ones, which gradually decompose and die. If the life force
is conserved, the cells change as readily at five hundred years as at ten.
"It will be found that when all the life force is
conserved, the body can be so charged with life that you can speak life into
all forms. You can paint a picture, model a statue, or take any of your
handiwork that expresses your ideal and breathe the breath of life into it and
it will become alive. It will speak to you and to others who can see the life inspiration
that you have spoken into it; and it will be active because you, the Lord God
of you, has spoken and it is as He wills. But those forms will not assume the
human, unless you carry them to the God Life. If you do give them life you must
carry them through to the pure God Life; then they are perfect forms, as you
are perfect, and you have fulfilled your responsibility. This you will find is
true genius.
"There is one vital error that I wish to point out. The
genius, as you consider him, as he begins to develop, has consciously or
unconsciously acquired the ability to conserve and send the life forces in
their purity through their natural channels; this condition has animated his
body and the creative faculty and he sees that there is something higher for
him to express than the ordinary. While he conserves the life forces and gives
them free rein, he will go on to more and more glorious achievements; but if he
allows sex lust to creep in, he quickly loses his creative power. The body has
been first built up by conserving the life forces until the cells are of a finer
texture than the lower order of person who has dissipated the life force. By
this time the genius has risen to fame and, not having developed his deeper perceptive
or God power, is carried away by self-glory. He forsakes his guiding light
because he has not been fully awakened; in the urge for greater excitement, he
begins to dissipate the life forces and quickly loses all power. For if man
does raise his thought above the animal passions and conserves the life forces
until the body has begun to take on the finer texture, then allows himself to
fall back, he will go back much more rapidly than one that has not been thus awakened.
"When one has been awakened so that he will conserve
all the life forces and let them be distributed to the nerves in the natural
way, then let them go coursing along the nerves to every atom of the body,
without deforming it with thoughts of sex-lust or passion, the exhilaration
will be permanent and the sensation will far transcend that of sex. The serpent
will be lifted up and will need to crawl on its belly through the murk and mire
of lust and passion.
"If man could understand that this life fluid is many
times more vital than a corresponding amount of pure blood, he would conserve
instead of dissipate it. But he shuts his eyes to this fact (he may be entirely
ignorant of it) and goes on, either in blindness or ignorance, until the Reaper
arrives. Then a wail goes up, for he does not admire the harvest. "You
look upon old age with veneration and snow-white locks as a crown of honor,
which I would not detract from in any way. But as you look upon the picture, I
leave it for you to decide which is the more to be honored, he with the snow-white
locks, who has by ignorance or direct perversity brought decrepitude upon
himself or the one who, in maturity, becomes more vital, strong, and better
equipped to meet the advancing years and because of them is more kind and
generous. I recognize that the one who reaches the end through ignorance is to
be pitied, while the one who knows and reaches the same end, is
unspeakable."
Excerpt made possible by The Life and Teachings of the
Masters of the Far East, by Baird T. Spalding
Adonai
Michael of Nebadon
Michael of Nebadon
