Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1897.] CONTRIBUTIONS AND ANSWERS TO QUE8TION8. 519
Hindu formula by which the mind is turned away from the God of the
universe. and narrowed down to the divine spark within the self. This
shuts the door to all inspiration, and all expansion of the consciousneBB
into the Deity which rules all things. The Infinite Fountains of
knowledge, power, and love are sealed. We are taken back to the
Hindu idea. found in all their lectures and books, that we must turn
fwm everything eh.e and concentrate upon one idea,-that of self.
This of course reduces all hope of the future to that of simply becoming
the fullness of what we are already within ounelvea.
Hereiu is found the keynote of the ROlution of the problem, If
J ndia. ever since long before the times of Bible history, has had these
wondron,. ta·uth11, which. as these teachers would have us believe,
are 110 elevating and so exalting. why i11 it that, as a nation, she has
dt-~« ea.dt-d to such depths of degradation, and that to-day her people
a•·e }'llupen upon the mercie11 of the Christian world? As a primer
hy "I. ich mm ality may be taught. we would have nothing to ~~ay
agninst the "Bhagavad-Gita." or the Hindu ~~«'riptures to which the
wa·itt>r of this letter rt-fero~. were it not for the limiting doctrines which
in '"' many plac·t>R thPy cont11in. Frcm bt>ginning to end there are
maa k11 in these woi·k11 that the authon had no conception of the great
plHn aa·tl ultimatP fell' whic·h the world wu created. Their idea of the
ultintate, I\irvaa a. Ft't n•a to be devoid of progreBB, Nirvana being a
return to what they were bt>fore they ill8ued from the Creative Being.
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