Circle of Good Will - The World Teacher Trust

AlignmentThe second aspect of a clean life is alignment – alignmentof thoughts, speech and action. What we think, what wespeak and what we act upon, shall have to be in alignment.This is a problem in the modern society. There is a lotof tendency within the humans to manipulate what theythink, what they speak and what they do; they are atvariance with each other. They disagree with each other.They are not in accordance. Man thinks somethinginside that is his hidden agenda. He wants to achievesomething, but he speaks something else – and thenhe acts in a different way. This is the triple distortion:What he thinks and what he speaks is generally not thesame, because inside he has a selfish motive. Therefore,he cannot speak. He has to speak in a manner by whichhis selfish desire is not exhibited. But his actions are stilldifferent from what he speaks. So, he keeps on hidingcertain things, speaking certain other things and doingstill other things. This has been the game the humanitystarted playing right from the Atlantean time. And thetendencies continue even during the Aryan times.People speak many things for etiquette andmanners; they are very formal and pleasant. They donot mean much of what they speak through etiquetteand formality. It is called lip service. It is not very deepin the being, it is only at the lips. This way one is notstraightening oneself. When one is not straight oneself,what one sees also appears not straight. When there isinner distortion then what one sees and what one hearsis also received with distortion. It is like a distortedmirror. Therefore, there is more confusion. That is thereason why everyone firmly believes what he thinks,what he speaks, what he does is the only right thing.He genuinely believes it to be so. Unless he makes anexamination of himself, he cannot find it. It is like youcatch a rabbit by one foot, say by rear foot, you will beable to see only the other three feet. Then you will say,the rabbit has two legs in the front and one leg in theback. Another catches the rabbit by the front leg andsays that the rabbit has only three legs, one leg in thefront and two in the back. So, each one catches therabbit by a different leg and declares that it has onlythree legs. That is because what he holds, blinds him,and he sees only the other things. Unless he leaves therabbit and sees from a distance, he cannot see that ithas four legs.As long as we have a viewpoint, we cannot have avision. That is what wisdom says. If we are climbingup a mountain we don’t see the total mountain. Weonly see to the left, to the right, above and below.We don’t see how the mountain is on the other side.The vision comes when all the viewpoints culminate.As long as there are viewpoints, there is no vision.34 35