Circle of Good Will - The World Teacher Trust

An Unveiled Spiritual PerceptionRig Veda says, “You listen to me, but you do not listen.You see me, but you do not see, while the Divine isomnipresent.” When He is not seen and not heard,what does it mean? One must be deaf and blind.Eager intellect enables coming out of this deficiency.It is only the eager intellect that enables unveiling ofspiritual perceptions.That is what we call an ‘unveiled spiritual perception’.Until then, the curtains are not lifted for us to see. Wemay go to a sacred mountain range and may find a cave;we may try to go into the cave and see what is there,and we find that there is no further entrance into thecave. But if we have spiritual perception, we will realisethat the wall we encounter as we go into the cave, isnot a wall but a door. But for a mundane intellect, itis a wall, so we cannot go inside. But for the intellectthat went through the initiation of the heart finds theway to open the wall. That is how Madam Blavatskyentered into great caves. That is how Nicholas Roerichentered into very sublime caves. Even if the location isgiven, people cannot go there. What is the difference?The difference is seeing through the heart, not seeingthrough the mind.So pure love leads to eager intellect, eager intellectenables spiritual perceptions, which are not otherwisepossible. That is how it is. When such conferencesare happening, such teachings are happening, therecan be some Masters in the invisible plane. They areonly visible to those who have the unveiled spiritualperception. That is why the immediate need for all ofus is to enter into the cave of the heart and to modifyall our thinking processes. The Golden Stairs are not assimple as they appear to be. They are very profound.The whole creation is a formation in layers of veils.There are veils after veils. Beyond every successiveveil there are greater dimensions, there is greater lightand greater joy. The veils exist until one touches thespirit. The first veil around the spirit is called Mayaor illusion. That we exist is itself an illusion. Whenthis veil is lifted, what remains is the spirit. That is thefinal veil between the Lord and the being, between theFather and the son. Most of these veils are self-imposed.They are now needed to be lifted up to experience one’slimitlessness and one’s eternity of existence.The creation is said to be of nine veils. The first veilis Mula Prakriti or root matter, which is called ‘light’.The light itself is a veil that veils the spirit. From thefirst veil of light emerges the trinity, which representswill, love and activity. They too, are veils coming fromthe first veil of nature. Then there are the five veils ofelements: Akasha, the fifth ether; Vayu, the air; Agni,the fire; Apas, the water; and Prithvi, the gross matter.82 83