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The Second Lesson: The Inner Teachings.1153
out that Emancipation, Freedom, Release from Samsara, or the Chain of
Existences—or “Salvation” to use the Western term—may be obtained by
an Understanding of the Truth; a Realization of the Real Self; a Perception
of the identity of the Individual Spirit with the Universal Spirit (“Tat tvam asi,”
“That art thou!”); and the killing out of Desire for Material Life and Objects,
and a concentration of the whole mind upon The One.
And this oneness of Reality—this doctrine of the manifestation of The
Many, and of the Universe, as an emanation, reflection or phenomenal
appearance of the One, is the Inner Teaching underlying all of the many
forms of the Hindu Philosophy and Religions. And you will find this Inner
Teaching running like a silken thread through all the beads of the systems of
philosophies and religions of India, from high to low, as we proceed. Plainly
asserted and insisted upon in the Monistic forms of the Vedanta; apparently
contradicted in the outer form of the Sankhya; apparently ignored and
supplanted by Nihilism in Buddhism; disguised by personifications in the
Orthodox Religions of India—still ever we shall see this Inner Teaching of
the one running through each and all, in spite of appearances. The one is
the background; the Foundation and Support; and the Roof, of all Hindu
Philosophical and Religious Thought, and will be seen always by those
whose vision is sufficiently clear, and who know where to look.
And so, now passing on to the consideration of these various systems,
we must ask you to be ever keen to perceive the Inner Teaching under
its manifold disguises, names and veils. Be not deceived by the outward
appearance, but look ever behind the veil—for there ever abideth The
truth.
Special Message II.
There is but one Truth. All so-called “truths” are but some of the many
aspects of the one Truth. Truth is “that which is.” That which “is” must exist in
reality, verity, and certainty—must exist as a fixed established principle, law
and state of being. Truth is present everywhere; is infinite power; is infinite