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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga898
there? Have you ever attempted to impart the highest teachings known to
you, to persons who had not attained sufficient spiritual development to
even understand the meaning of your words? Have you ever committed
the folly of throwing spiritual pearls to material swine? If you have had
these experiences, you may begin to faintly imagine the reasons of these
illumined souls for keeping away from the crowd—for dwelling away from
the multitude. No one who has not suffered the pain of having the vulgar
crowd revile the highest spiritual truths to him, can begin to understand the
feelings of the spiritually illumined individuals. It is not that they feel that
they are better or more exalted than the humblest man—for these feelings
of the personality have long since left them. It is because they see the folly
of attempting to present the highest truths to a public which is not prepared
to understand even the elementary teachings. It is a feeling akin to that of
the master of the highest musical conceptions attempting to produce his
wonderful compositions before a crowd fit only for the “rag-time” and
slangy songs of the day.
Then again, these Masters have no desire to “work miracles” which would
only cause the public to become still more superstitious than they now
are. When one glances back over the field of religions, and sees how the
miraculous acts of some of the great leaders have been prostituted and
used as a foundation for the grossest credulity and basest superstition, he
may understand the wisdom of the masters in this respect. There is another
reason for the non-appearance of the Masters, and that is that there is no
occasion for it. The laws of Spiritual Evolution are as regular, constant and
fixed as are the laws of Physical Evolution, and any attempt to unduly force
matters only results in confusion, and the abortive results soon fade away.
The world is not ready for the appearance of the Masters. Their appearance
at this time would not be in accordance with The Plan.
The Masters or Adepts are human beings who have passed from lower to
higher planes of consciousness, thus gaining wisdom, power and qualities
that seem almost miraculous to the man of the ordinary consciousness. A