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CHAPTER 49

39. A1

SEE THE TEACHER ONLY AS HIS TEACHING, OR THE TRUTH,

SO THAT ONE CAN THEN NEVER DISTORT THE TEACHING (TO SOME THING SURREAL) AND THUS DISRESPECT THE TEACHER (OF THE TRUTH).

THE GRAVEST CRIME BY ANY TEACHER IS TO CONFUSE (AND COVER UP) ANY DETAILS WHICH

HE IS UNABLE TO CLARIFY. EVEN AN UNATTENDED LOOSE END THAT MAY CONFUSE IS INTELLECTUAL INFIDELITY.

(49.A)    A JUST GOVERNMENT OF SOCIAL BODY

IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH JUST SOCIETY EXCEPT BY A BROAD BASED

GOVERNMENT WHICH IS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. WHERE THE LEADERS, AND THE MAJORITY, SHOULD INSPIRE, NOT DOMINATE, THE REST. THE REGIMENTATION OF COMMUNISM IS AN

IDEAL ANTIDOTE FOR A PURPOSELESS POPULACE. BUT IT DESTROYS THE HUMAN SPIRIT; AND CAN CONVERT A NATION INTO A BEE COLONY – AT MOST. EVEN AUTHORITARIAN

DEMOCRACIES, AS FOUND IN FLOURISHING SINGAPORE, MAY SUCCEED IN PREVENTING STRIFE;

BUT THEY ALSO CAUSE A HESITANCY AMONGST NORMAL PEOPLE, AND STIFLE THE

BRILLIANCE OF INDIVIDUALS. FOR THE PEOPLE ARE FREE TO SOAR, BUT HAVE HAD THEIR

WINGS CLIPPED! (A DEMOCRACY, ON THE OTHER HAND, CAN ALLOW PROTEST AND STRIKES,

ONLY IF MEANS DO NOT CAUSE MORE HAEM THAN WHAT THE END IS TRYING TO AVOID. IF NOT, IT WILL AMOUNT TO A HOSTAGE AND RANSOM.)

  1. B

THE WAYS AND VALUES EXPRESSED IN “THE OPEN BOOK” ARE NOT MERE SUGGESTIONS. THEY

ARE RATIONAL EXTENSIONS OF THE BASIC NATURAL LAWS.*(01) AND HENCE, SHOULD BE

RIGIDLY ADGERED TO ALWAYS (AFTER ONE SATISFIES ONESELF BY SCRUTINY) FOR BENEFIT

NOW AND, VERY PROBABLY, IN THE HERE AFTER MEANS – ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE! IS WHAT

EVERY HUMAN EXPECTS. THIS IS EASY IF IT IS SEPARATED FROM RELIGION *(01) THE CRUX IS

THAT THE ULTIMATE GOOD IS NOT COMPASSION, BUT ACQUIRING AN UNDERSTANDING OF

THE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS. IT IS TOWARDS THIS END THAT THE HIGHER BEINGS ARE

COMMITTED; AND THEIR HELP TOO IS SIMILARLY DIRECTED. THEIR MAIN EFFORT IS TO

MOULD HUMAN CHARACTER. SO THAT, WHAT CANNOT BE ACHIEVED HERE AND NOW, COULD BE DONE IN A FUTURE CONTINUUM!*(02)

*(01) WHEN CONFRONTED WITH A PROBLEM, ONE SHOULD PAUSE TO IDENTIFY ITS CAUSE ()

APPARENT AND REAL THEN MODIFY THE REACTION TO A HONEST, MEANINGFUL RESPONSE IS ONLY THEN THAT THE HIGHER BEINGS MAY ASSIST IN THE RATIONAL ASSESSMENT, AND MAY EVEN REINFORCE THE REQUIRED RESPONSE TOO.

*(02) LIFE CAN CONTINUE IN ANY ENVIRONMENT YOU SEEK, IF IT BECOMES YOUR WAYS AND

VALUES, AND YOU ACQUIRE AN INGRAINED TENDENCY OR INDIVIDUALITY TO FIT EXACTLY

INTO SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT. THIS INDIVIDUALITY FIXING DOES NOT REQUIRE AN

ADVANCED INTELLECT, ONLY AN ASSESSMENT AND A DIUSTMENT OF ONE’S ‘SENSE OF VALUES’.

SO THAT ONE’S EVERY NEED WOULD BE ALINGED TO THE CAUSE. IT IS A CONVICTION; WHICH

BECOMES ABSOLUTE, WHEN IT IS A REALIZATION. (WATER IS A GREATER NEED, AND EASIER TO

INGRAIN AS A CONVICTION)

SO THAT ONE’S EVERY NEED WOULD BE ALINGED TO THE CAUSE. IT IS A CONVICTION; WHICH

BECOMES ABSOLUTE, WHEN IT IS A REALIZATION. (WATER IS A GREATER NEED, AND EASIER TO INGRAIN AS A CONVICTION, THAN GOLD!)

A CONVICTION HAS TO BE CONSISTANT; A REALIZATION, ABSOLUTE AND IRREFUTABLE.

SUPERNATURAL INTERVENTION IS DESIGNED PRIMARILY TOWARDS ACHIEVING SUCH

(ABSOLUTE) REALIZATIONS – EQUALLY APPLICABLE TO ALL LIVING BEINGS. EVEN A

CONVICTION, IF TOUCHED BY DOUBT, CANNOT INGRAIN SUFFICIENTLY TO ADJUST. AND

ADJUSTMENT IS THE KEY TO MENTAL PROGRESS. THE SIMPLEST MENTAL ADJUSTMENT IS AN

INGRAINED HABIT OR TENDENCY THAT OVERLAYS (SPECIES) CHARACTER – BY CONVICTION;

THE ULTIMATE IS THE REJECTION OF CONDITIONED EXISTENCE WITH THE ACCEPTANCE OF A PERMANENT STATE OF (RHYTHM CITY INDUCED) HAPPINESS – BY REALIZATION

(49C)

THOSE NEARING DEATH OFTEN SPEND THEIR LAST DAYS TRYING TO RECTIFY THE MISTAKES

THEY HAVE MADE. BUT RARELY DOES ONE ATTEMPT TO ALTER ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY, ‘SENSE

OF VALUES’ OR CAUSES WHICH LEAD TO THE ERRORS; AND THEREBY CHANGE INTO A NEW

PERSON, FOR ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE*(01) HOWEVER, TO BECOME A NEW PERSONS WHO FEEL

THAT THEY ALREADY ARE THE PERSONS THEY WANT TO BE*(02) EXCEPT FOR SOME LOFTY IDEALS, WHICH AMOUNT TO CHANGES OF EFFECTS (NOT THE CAUSES) THEY WILL CHANCE THE FUTURE AS THEY ARE*(03).

*(01) THE BUDDHA CONSIDERED ONE’S INGRAINED INDIVIDUALITY AS REBIRTH KARMA OR SUBSEQUENTLY EFFECTIVE KARMA (AS OPPOSED TO IMMENSELY EFFECTIVE KARMA OR

MORAL DICTATES, AND INDEFINITELY EFFECTIVE KARMA OR ATTRIBUTES OF THE SPECIES).

*(02) IF BOTH THE EVOLVING INTO A HUMAN AS WELL AS ACQUIRING OF AN ACCESS TO THE

TRUTH, WERE NOT EXTREMELY RARE OCCURRENCES EVEN IN AN INFINITY OF TIME; ONE MAY

BE EXCUSED FOR RELAXING JUST ABIT. HOWEVER, THE RARITY OF THESE TWO OPPORTUNITIES

CANNOT BE EXAGGERATED! AND SINCE THE PROBING CONTACT MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO FIND

YOUR IDEAL LOCATION FOR MIND CONTINUUM; YOU SHOULD AT LEAST BE CARRYING AN

INNATE TENDENCY – FORT (PERHAPS, A TENDENCY FOR THE TRUTH WAS THE ONLY ‘TALENT’

THAT I CARRIED OVER. BORN A BUDDHIST I WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW, AT THE AGE OF 08, WHY IT WAS SO WRONG TO KILL ANIMALS FOR FOOD, AS A LION COULD THEN DO NO GOOD! BUT IT

WAS ONLY AT 17 I WAS BOLD TO CONFRONT AN EMINENT CLERGY WITH THE QUESTION: ‘WHAT

IS IT I YOU THAT IS REBORN?’ I NEVER RECEIVED ANY ANSWER THAT WERE CONVINCING. I HAD

TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP. IN 1967, AT THE AGE OF 36, I STARTED TO PUT UP! BUT I KEPT RUNNING

INTO A BRICK WALL. AND IT WAS MUCH LATER THAT I REALIZED THAT THE HIGHER BEINGS WANTED ME TO SHUT UP UNTIL THE TRUTH WAS SCIENTIFICALLY COMPLETE.)

*(03) TO REALIZE THAT ONE IS NOT BEING ABSOLUTELY TRUE TO ONE’S OWN SELF (DUE TO

FEAR, SHAME, OR TO GAIN FAVOUR) IS A VERY GREAT ACHIEVEMENT. FOR, FROM THIS POINT

ONWARDS PROGRESS COULD BE UNLIMITED. BY THINKING HONESTLY AND DILIGENTLY, ONE CAN NOW ESTABLISH ONE’S TENDENCIES OR RESOLUTELY MOULD ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY, AS NOW TO LIVE AND HAVE LIVED BEFORE. BUT FOR ANY CHANCE TO OCCUR, THE NEW (WAYS AND VALUES) MUST BE FOUND MORE NECESSARY OR TRULY NEEDED, THAN THE OLD.

OTHERWISE THE CONVICTION IS NOT A TRUE ONE AND CANNOT BE SUFFICIENTLY

INGRAINED, TO ADJUST AS AN INDIVIDUALITY. THE REQUIREMENT FOR INGRAINING (ANY

INDIVIDUALITY) IS NOT WHAT ONE WANTS OR WANTS TO BE, BUT WHY! WHY OR THE NEED IS

THE INGRAINING INGREDIENT. ONE MAY ACTUALLY DISLIKE WHAT ONE HAS TO DO. BUT IF

TRULY EMERSED IN IT, ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY TOO WILL ADJUST ACCORDINGLY. AS SUCH

ADJUSTMENT WOULD BE FOUND NECESSARY – FOR FUNCTION (LIVING). THIS IS THE DANGER

OF BEING TOO COMMITTED TO THINGS OF LITTLE VALUE, WHICH ADD TOONE’S SPECIES

CHARACTER WORTHLESSLY, AND IS CARRIED AFTER DEATH

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