THE BOOK
THE MISSION OF “GAUTAMA” BUDDHA
The story of Gautama Buddha from the line of Tshakya in many ways mirrored that of Siddhartha Buddha. Both underwent the commensurate experiences necessary for their spirits to be open sufficiently to receive the highest knowledge so that India could become the great “spiritual” nation it was ordained it should be.
Under Gautama’s leadership, more schools were opened across India, Nepal and Tibet. In the aftermath of his life, a new “world-religion” came into being, but not in accordance with Divine Will, as the two Buddhas taught it was to be!
After Anaga’s “message” to the Buddhas, Gautama, the Greater, worked on in the “white city”. Sariputta the snake-charmer, who had once accompanied Siddhartha on the highway, was now living out his life in the new capital. His gift of “seeing” had become stronger and he sought out Gautama to deliver a “message”.
“You will have to guide and lead our whole great people, Gautama. This I know. See that you learn to understand them. Do not stay here all the time. Go out to the other regions.”
“Believe me! I have travelled with my snakes from the lofty mountains to the blue oceans, from the cool to the scorching regions. Everywhere the people are different, according to descent, physical body, customs and inner quality. No two principalities are alike. And our country comprises many of them. Learn to know them, for otherwise you cannot rule them.”
“But I do not wish to rule, I want to serve, Sariputta,” said Gautama decidedly. ...
“Whom would you serve, son of a Prince?” asked Sariputta in return.
“Do you know what it means to serve?”
“To serve means to devote oneself wholeheartedly to the task which has been recognised as one’s own.”
“And whom do you wish to serve thus?”
Sariputta asked the question urgently. Without thinking, Gautama answered:
“I wish to serve the Eternal One!”
“Not your people?” Long-drawn out and painfully came the words from Sariputta’s lips. ...
“Of course I want to serve my people, that is to say I want to serve the Eternal One in my people. That is probably the right way to express it,” replied Gautama.
He did not understand the old man’s sorrow. But the latter began to speak, slowly and deliberately at first, in the manner of very old people, then ever faster and more unrestrainedly:
“Gautama, hear me. Our people must be closer to our hearts than all else on earth. The Eternal One has countless servants down here and up there in the beyond. You know that as well as I do. You can even see them. Do you not think that he has enough? But our people will only have you to help them.
“Gautama, scion of the Tshakyas, do not throw away your princely heritage. If the Eternal One had wished to make you a servant, he would have let you enter your body in a hut.
Gautama, I see the time coming, it is not far off, when our people will stray onto wrong paths. What the Master has brought them they will mingle with other teachings. The precious wisdom will be lost in sophistries and false thinking. I see a time far off, perhaps near --- for the Light there is no long and no short time--- when our whole people will have to be subject to foreign rulers. We shall be pariahs, all, all of us!”
“Gautama, darling of the gods, only you can prevent it. Devote yourself to your people with your whole soul! Grasp the sceptre of your realm with a firm hand. There are adherents of Siddhartha in all principalities. Gather them, take possession of the realms through them, unite with their rulers or resist them. It does not matter how you do it, so long as you forge a strong whole out of the many individual parts. Then for a long time to come the people will be strong enough to resist foreign invaders. Then they will blossom, to the joy of men and of the Eternal One.”
“Gautama, consider: What I reveal to you here is worthy of one blessed by the Eternal One, as you are! You will be greater than Siddhartha. The people will love you, the people whom you have saved from misery and bondage!” ------------------
Gautama stood before him, looking at him kindly. But his eyes were as though turned inwards; for his whole thinking was an ardent prayer:
“Eternal One, let me know whether this is a temptation, or Thy Call to me!”
“Neither the one nor the other, Gautama,” sounded within him. “You had to hear this, so that you could choose your way from a free decision. The Eternal One will have no servants under compulsion.”
And again the soul of the youth rose up in prayer:
“I wish to be Thy servant, O Lord of all the Worlds! Wherever Thou dost place me I will work. But I wish to be a servant, not a ruler!”
After this, great peace entered Gautama’s soul, and he turned ... to the old yogi, in whose words he now recognised and honoured the great, selfless love for his people.
“Sariputta, I promise you that as servant of the Lord of all the Worlds I shall never forget my people. Whether He makes of me a ruler, a sage or a helper, I will embrace my people in love.”
As Gautama developed into his task, Siddhartha was still teaching and reforming old ideas about burial customs and outlawing the hideous practice of the burning of widows at the deaths of their husbands. Despite his remarkable mission, Siddhartha recognised that he had not fulfilled all things in the right way. Before his death, he addressed Gautama.
“That is not necessary, Gautama. My time has passed, and with it my thoughts. Everything must now be done not as I have planned it, but as you see it with the help of your guide. A new time dawns. The old is passing away with me, the new approaches. The Kingdom of the Lord of all the Worlds will develop gloriously among our people.”
“You, Gautama, are called to build up anew what I have only begun. All strength from above will be with you. I see so much that should be improved. I can no longer change anything, but I know that you will do so.”
Whilst “the Kingdom of the Lord of all the Worlds” did for a time “develop gloriously among the Indian people”; historically, it did not last long, for what was so painstakingly built up was soon forgotten and/or terribly distorted. Modern-day India is glaring testament to that incontrovertible fact.
One of Gautama’s principal spiritual tasks was to take the Brahman faith to the next higher level. At the consecration of the Temple he had built in the “white city”, he addressed his growing number of disciples.
Gautama’s legacy certainly did mean that millions advanced to the next level, but many millions did not. In offering the essential knowledge of the life of Gautama Buddha for 21st century Buddhists, there is an episode in his life that is probably not known. If it is, then the facts surrounding it will certainly not be known in the detail. It concerns the question of a successor to carry on his work; a son that should have been. That meant a marriage for Gautama in accordance with Divine Will.
The circumstances by which it should have occurred took place at a visit by him to the seat of the Gautama lineage, Kapilavastu. He was accompanied by Suddhodana. They could not hide their connection to the region, for their features revealed their royal lineage. Embracing the new faith that Siddhartha had spread, the country and people prospered under the rule of his father and brother. So much so that their beneficial influence extended to neighbouring realms. Gautama soon realised that it was because of those “other kingdoms” that he had to come.
In one of the neighbouring regions, the sole wish of the ageing King was for a son to inherit the realm after him. He hoped that a marriage for his daughter would produce an heir. His daughter, Princess Yananda, was born with the gift of “seeing”, and sometimes saw in her dreams things which later came true.
Thus she had already seen her husband when she was quite a young girl and had refused to marry any other prince. Her father, King Khat had approached Prince Suddhodana seeking to marry his daughter to Gautama.
“Can you not be a servant of the Lord of all the Worlds even though you marry?” his father asked.
But Gautama said no, although the Prince pointed out to him how important it would be if good sons came from the marriage, who in turn would become servants of the Eternal One.
“The realm is vast and powerful, Gautama. You must remember that also. If you become King of Khatmandu, you will have immense power. You will then be able to work in a very different way to spread the teaching. You will have riches and armies behind you.”
“Stop, father,” cried Gautama...
“If the Lord of all the Worlds needs riches and power on earth, He can so arrange it. He can create a kingdom for me so immeasurably vast that we cannot envisage it...if He so wills. But that I should break the vow I have given Him, that I should bind myself with earthly ties, is not his Will.”
“Why then should He have sent you here now? Tell me that. You yourself say that you have come at the behest of the Lord!” ----------------
A few days later the Prince began afresh:
“Hear me Gautama. I have received news that King Khat wishes to see you. He will agree to anything you may demand. You can be absent from the country for months at a time, during which Yananda will rule; but do not refuse him. He would never get over it.”
“He would think of us with ill-will, even become our enemy. Thus you would endanger the continuance of our realm, for he has more warriors than we. It is surely not the Will of the Lord of all the Worlds that you should stubbornly bring down such a fate upon your homeland.”
Gautama agreed to meet the King and set out on the journey to his realm. Upon his first seeing her, he underwent an inner struggle between the wish to be at her side as Regent of the Realm, and to devote his life solely to service to God. When she saw him, Yananda cried out: “My husband.” Alone together, Yananda and Gautama discussed what he saw as his great predicament. the Pages of Time record --- as with all words and deeds ever spoken and enacted --- their conversation. The key points follow:
“With my whole soul,” was the reply.
“Do you wish to serve Him in loyalty?”
“I can think of nothing more beautiful!” -------------------
“Yananda, the Eternal One calls you to service now! You can serve Him and our whole great people by forgetting me. Forget your dream, renounce your wishes! Earthly happiness is not for me; my life is dedicated to the highest service. Help me to leave you without thoughts of regret.” -
They stood in silence, face to face, each seeking to read in the soul of the other. Then Gautama began to implore the Eternal One to give Yananda power and strength. ... She was no longer faint-hearted.
“I will, Gautama. Tell me what I am to do.”
Together they discussed the plan for the sake of which Gautama had come here. Yananda was prepared to sacrifice her whole life if it was the Will of the Eternal One. Gautama had already sacrificed his, but he did not tell her that.
They parted as friends. Never had two such pure human beings found one another in loyalty, only to give up all claim to each other in service to the Eternal One.
King Khat’s desire for an heir by his daughter and a son of the house of Tshakya meant that any of them would be acceptable to him. Gautama and Yananda had agreed that she would accept the young Suddhodana in place of him. After the celebrations were over, and as Gautama prepared to leave, Suddhodana approached him and asked:
“You will do that brother, only in a different way from how you understand it now.”
For the first time, Gautama had called him brother. And Suddhodana had found it harder than he thought to tear himself away from the young Master.
But Gautama rode south, solitary and alone.
YEARS HAD passed in which the stream of happenings flowed evenly on. It had carried away the old and cast ashore the new. And then years had rushed past in which events swept by as in a rushing whirlwind.
It was as though the Eternal One had wished to show men what affliction is, so that in their misery they might learn to stretch up their hands in longing.
The sacred river had to forget that it symbolised a source of fertility for those who lived near it. Irresistibly it overflowed its banks, flooding fields and villages, so that death and destruction followed the retreating waves in place of flowering life. ------
A great plague stalked the land; severe epidemics followed, again bringing with them death in the most terrible form.
Reader: Let’s pause awhile here and seriously think about the yearly natural disasters that have probably plagued India for a long as can be remembered. Yes there are the vital rains from the monsoons which, of course, bring great floods --- but also silt-covered land in the aftermath. On the one hand the waters bring death; on the other, new growth. That is regarded as the natural cycle for India.
More than that, however, let us now consider the effect that global warming is already bringing the Indian sub-continent. The great glaciers that feed rivers on both sides of the Himalayas are retreating and thinning. That means less water to feed the rivers in normal flow and, paradoxically, far more devastating monsoons, with commensurately-greater destruction. That is not the normal cycle, but is nonetheless wrought by the immutable effect of the great Law of Reciprocal Action!
So whether global warming has been caused primarily by the industrialised West matters not one whit in this case. For the effect of it for India means that its people are impacted to the greatest possible degree. And since The Divine Laws of Creation are not arbitrary in any shape or form, the greater underlying reasons for such disasters need to be understood very, very differently. Not just for India, but for every nation and people.
With India, however, a population exceeding one billion, thus absolutely ensuring that much greater tragedies will unfold, as in the case of a collapsing glacier in February 2021; the ensuing floodwaters of which destroyed dams and hydro plants, washing away whole villages in the process with the inevitable loss of many lives.
Gautama discovered that many of his disciples did not fully understand what he taught. Through their lesser degree of spiritual insight, they continually sought to reinterpret the new teachings and mix them with the old. Arriving at one of the many monasteries that had now been built across the land, Gautama sought out an old friend.
There by the window, in the last rays of the setting sun, sat a very old man, who joyfully turned his face with the weather-beaten features to the visitor.
When he recognised Gautama, childlike happiness beamed from his eyes. These eyes had remained young, young too was the soul of which they spoke.
“Maggalana, Father, I come to you because I am weary,” Gautama greeted the old man. -----------
“I see that you are tired, and the day has not satisfied you. Have you not been able to convince the foolish ones?”
“I have, Father. In the end they understood what was at issue. But that they could come with such suggestions at all proves to me that they no longer know what the treasure they possess is. That saddens me. Instead of letting the knowledge of the Eternal One grow ever deeper --- how little do we ever know of Him --- they want to adulterate and corrupt it with human thoughts.
“And now that they have understood at last how wrong what they had in mind is, their thoughts will not rest until they have discovered something else, perhaps even more foolish.
“Then I shall have to confront them. But how long shall I still be here to do so? Is the teaching to fall apart after my death, as though it originated from human beings?”
“Gautama, I do not know you in this despondency”, Maggalana reproved him gently. “From whom does the teaching come? Who revealed Himself to Siddhartha? Why did the Eternal One do so? Surely not to let His Truth dwell among men but a short time. When you are called away, my son, other hands will be there to take up the threads which you must leave behind. It is the concern of the Lord of all the Worlds, do not forget that.”
“You are right, my father. I am ashamed of my weakness. Nor is it right to allow myself to be so wearied by people.”
ONCE MORE Gautama rode forth. -------------------
He did not wish to go to Kapilavastu or Khatmandu. But involuntarily his thoughts often turned there, and faint tidings came to him. Suddhodana the elder had been allowed to depart his life, as also had king Khat, who had already handed over the government to the younger Suddhodana some time ago.
Rahula reigned in Kapilavastu, and was the happy father of a healthy son, whereas the marriage of Yananda and Suddhodana had so far been denied the heir. Several lovely girls played around their parents, but their wish for a son had remained unfulfilled.
Could Yananda have made the sacrifice in vain? Suddenly, as it had arisen, with equal haste did Gautama push this thought from him. Best not to think! What had happened could no longer be changed. And it had been done in purest volition. -----
He had ridden higher up than he intended. It was not possible to return to an inhabited region that same day. But not far away he found a spacious cave in which horse and rider could spend the night, as it was not cold. So they both settled down there. --------------------------
In the night he awoke. The cave was lit up, but he could not recognise the source of the light. He sat up upon his bed of moss and looked about him. Then a delicate female figure, clad in white, approached.
“Yananda,” he cried, leaping up. How is it that you come to me?”
“I have asked to be allowed to come and speak with you, Gautama,” sounded Yananda’s voice faintly, as though far away.
He wanted to question her, but the graceful white hand motioned him to be silent.
“Ask me nothing now, Gautama. Hear what I have to tell you. I cannot begin my ascent until your eyes have been opened to what we have done wrong. We acted with the best of intentions, but we sinned against God’s Eternal Laws.”
“You say you cannot begin your ascent --- Yananda, are you no longer among us, the living?”
“No, Gautama. The Eternal One has called me away because I was not needed here. But let me speak. Brief is the time that has been given to me.
“We both had a wrong concept of that which men call ‘duty’. Duty is unconditional fulfilment of the Will of God within the task assigned to us. It was my duty to present the realm with an heir and to educate him in the worship of the All-Highest. I have not been able to fulfil this task, because the one to whom I was to bear the son withdrew from me.
“He gave me up to another. The other is a good man. He loved me. But I could not forget the one who was shown to me in my dream. I considered that to be a sin. I was a good wife to the other, and yet often I wept all night through, because it was becoming ever clearer to me that the Eternal One is not served by a lie.
“If you thought that your duty required you to live alone, we both ought to have accepted this. We should not have resorted to falsehood to uphold the peace of the realm.
“That we have done this is our sin. But Gautama, that which down here I only faintly divined has now become certainty to me.
“Our sacrifice was unnecessary. Do you think your picture would have been shown to me in a dream if we had not been destined for each other? You and I together would have been able to present the country with the heir who would guide the realm and the faith with a sure hand after your death. Who will take your place when you are called away?”
“That is my concern also,” cried Gautama vehemently. But I believe that I do not have to ask about that. The Eternal One will ordain it.”
“The Eternal One has ordained it, Gautama! But we wanted to be wiser than Him. We did not ask whether what we did was His Will. Some well-meaning but short-sighted helper suggested the plan to you, because you could not rid yourself of the concept of duty as you understood it.
“Had we listened to the Eternal One, we should have not needed to make the sacrifice of renunciation. You could have been His servant, and we should have proved through our life that you served Him in the right way.
“Thus we could have set the people a living example of how, resting in the Eternal One, true marriage must be. It was easier to renounce each other from the outset than to make the daily sacrifice of not binding oneself.
“Do you understand me, Gautama?” asked Yananda urgently.
A groan was the answer. A veil was torn from Gautama’s spiritual eye. Glaringly before him lay his mistake, into which he had also dragged Yananda. Could he ever be forgiven?
Yananda resumed:
“When I began to sense faintly where I had gone wrong, I begged the Eternal One for forgiveness from the depths of my heart. I prayed...that at least Suddhodana should not have to suffer. And I was heard. The Lord of the Worlds has taken me away, and has led a woman to my husband who is worthy of love, a woman who will give him the heir.
“For this I give thanks to the Eternal One! Ever more deeply I see my guilt, which was forgiven me before I atoned for it. I shall be able to atone in another life for what I did wrong. I shall be allowed to ascend a little way so that my recognition may deepen. But I cannot begin the ascent until I have awakened you. “Recognise your sin, Gautama, and make atonement for it even now, so that it will no longer hinder you in your ascent in the beyond!
“Thanks be to the Eternal One that I have been allowed to speak with you. Farewell.”
Quietly as it had come, the figure of Yananda disappeared. But Gautama lay weeping on his bed. What had he done! Out of a pure volition, he thought that he must deny himself.
It had been wrong! Then can even pure volition be wrong? If so, man could no longer trust himself. Then all that he thought and did could indeed be wrong. By what standard was he to judge?
How had Yananda expressed it?
“We did not ask whether what we did was the Will of the Eternal One!” ----------
And the Lord of the Worlds did not want this sacrifice!
In this “so-sophisticated” modern world driven by electronic wizardry, notions of “duty” to The Almighty in the sense that we have learned from Gautama’s life, probably seems old-fashioned and to many, irrelevant. However, the opposite stands as The Truth, which this Work testifies to!
In addition: Yananda’s appearance to Gautama in the cave after her death --- but more notably her recognition, post-earth-life, of the critical error they had made --- is written of in Imanuel’s Grail Message where He explains in essence, that “only after the human spirit has passed from the earth is it then able to see all that it did wrong, and all that it had left undone”!
Of course we are also shown our good works. However, since good is always good, it is the other “stuff” that is crucial to recognise as not having been fulfilled. With great remorse, Gautama agonised over his terrible mistake!
The Eternal One chose and trained a Truth-bringer, had him prepared and guided, and then --- the servant failed!
Gautama’s despair became ever greater.
“You could have known, must have known!” something whispered in him. ---------
The night passed in agonising self-reproaches, accusations and remorse. In the morning, a broken man lay on the bed of moss. He would most gladly have prayed:
“Take me hence, Eternal One! I am not worthy to be Thy servant.”
When he vaguely perceived this, and struggled for words to form it into a prayer, a luminous figure again stood before him. This time it was his guide, who so seldom appeared to him.
“Do not intentionally add sacrilege to sin, Gautama.” He warned earnestly. “It is for the Lord alone to decide whether you still seem worthy to Him as a servant. Pull yourself together! Bethink you; has He ever forsaken you when you prayed to him? Which of your enterprises has He not allowed you to succeed?
“If He were angry with you, He would long ago have withdrawn His Holy Hand from you. You asked whether a pure volition can also go wrong. You see that for yourself. You have erred out of the purest volition. Why? Because through intellectual thinking you have created a concept of duty for yourself.
“This rigid concept does not hold good before the Eternal One. Learn in all things to ask what is His Will, and fulfil it; thereby you will fulfil your duty to the best of your ability.
“Do not sin through false grief, Gautama! Recognise the immeasurable Goodness and Mercy of the Eternal One which lies in His letting you be warned. You can still make amends by teaching others to put God’s Will before all else. Only in this way will you be able to atone.
“What you have drawn to yourself in the happening you can no longer change. You will die without an heir, a successor. Try to train one of the younger Brothers to be able to take your place when you are called away.”
Ordinarily, we would think that the apparently simple answer to there being no heir from Gautama would be for him to train someone else to continue his work, exactly as his guide instructed him. For that is how “it is done today”! Yet just that notion is exactly the result of a lack of knowledge of the outworking of The Laws of Creation, strongly coupled to aspiritual, “intellectual” thinking.
Under the inviolable aegis of the inviolable Law of Attraction..., the union of Yananda and Gautama would have brought forth the ordained successor for the continuation of Gautama’s mission. So rather than needing to be “trained”, his origin would permit him to simply grow into his task. Had Gautama not failed there, perhaps India might not have returned so quickly to the old, dead and useless “stone gods”!
Never again should any creature suffer through him. He rode to the valley, a stricken, well-nigh broken man. -------------
His soul was filled with the great indictment against himself.
And again his guide came to him. This time he was even more demanding than before:
“You must pull yourself together, Gautama! Because you made a mistake, of which you did not even become conscious for many years, you have no right to paralyse and incapacitate the servant of the Eternal One that you still are! Let what you have done be a lesson to you. Save yourself and others from similar happenings. But let that be enough!
“When the Lord of all the Worlds sees true recognition of faults, and at the same time a sincere volition to lay aside these faults forever, He is no longer angry. That does not mean that He will intervene in the wheel of the happening to avert the consequences of what you have brought upon yourself and your people. That He will never do! But He forgives you, and grants that you continue to serve Him. Thank Him for His Grace.”
Gautama rode for a long time, turning these words over in his soul.
With greater resolve now, Gautama continued his mission of teaching the Knowledge of The One God, and of His Laws of Creation, including the widespread practice where the “holy men” of India expected “praise” for their “holiness”. Gautama strictly instructed the Brothers to reject all such sycophantic advances made to them.
There is only one more episode in his life that we will make known here, for it has long-resonated in the thinking of many Western “researchers of religion”, from whom have come many books --- and their conclusions --- on the subject.
It is the in the end quite strange question of whether or not there is a God; a question that is ultimately and solely, intellectually-driven. For if the same were to use the spiritual-intuition that all inherently possess but unfortunately have buried far too deeply; they would not need to ask what is, in the final analysis, a truly pointless question!
In the morning they told him of a great sage who was preaching in the surrounding district, and proclaiming there was no God at all. They begged Gautama to go and see the man.
Although he would have preferred the sage to come to him, Gautama yielded to his pupils’ plea. They knew exactly how to reach him. He lived in a remote region among the mountains. -----------
“Are you Vindhya-Muno?” asked one of the young men. The man laughed.
“Can’t you see that, questioner?”
Gautama had walked to the edge of the precipice and was gazing out over the country. His pupils had wanted to see the man; let them try to deal with him. For himself the first glance had been enough.
But the six young men stood embarrassed before the seated man, and did not know how they should begin to speak. ------------------
Nargardshuna was annoyed.
“I can understand that you do not believe in a God,” he called.
“Why do you think so?”
“One who like you idles away his time in doing nothing, and although he is healthy lives on people’s alms, giving nothing in return, cannot believe in God, otherwise he will fear the punishment which God will impose on him.”
“Do you believe in a god then?” the Muno asked. It was meant to sound derisive. Nargardshuna answered briefly: “Yes.”
“Listen friend,” said the man to that, “it is inconvenient to believe in a god. One has to pray to him, one has to make sacrifices to him. One is not allowed to do this or that. It is much easier to go through life without this belief, free and unburdened.”
Then Gautama turned round.
“And where does your life lead you, Muno?” he asked earnestly. The latter was startled.
“Who are you? Do not look at me! Your eyes go right through me.”
“Where does your life lead you?” repeated Gautama relentlessly, fixing his radiant eyes on the Muno.
“I do not know, nor do I want to know! I am content to arrange my life as comfortably as possible. If there is really anything after it, I must try to be ready for that also.”
“Man, I tell you there is something after this, which will be too hard for you!” exclaimed Gautama.
Two men arrived with provisions for the Muno. Now, he accepted the alms with embarrassment. They pressed him for words of wisdom, but he was reluctant to do so in the presence of Gautama.
“Are they also adherents of the teaching? Then you could answer for us immediately. We could learn from it.”
The hermit was silent and stared at the ground. But Gautama drew nearer.
“Why do you want to reject the teaching about God?” he asked kindly.
“Look, this man cannot tell you anything; for there is no proof that there is no God. But all Nature speaks clearly of Him. Everything that you see around you bears witness to the fact that He is!”
“This man has told us that belief in a god will turn life into bondage and a prison. But we want to enjoy our life.”
“That is sensible,” Gautama commended him. “Are you succeeding then?”
The men looked at one another. Then the older one answered:
“No matter what I do, I cannot get away from care and need. It is the same for my neighbour here.”
“But if you can make all Creation subject to you, then command care and need to depart from you.”
“Sire, no man can do that,” said the younger man. “We must endure what is laid upon us.”
“Who has laid it upon you? How did it come to you?”
“We do not know. Perhaps after all there is a god who plagues and torments us.”
“There is no god who torments men,” repeated Gautama. “But there is a Benevolent, Merciful God Who helps men. He gives no one more to bear than he has incurred for himself.
“What do you think: If a man recklessly throws a fire-brand into his homestead so that flames shoot up, who has set the dwelling ablaze?”
“None other than himself,” answered the younger man. ----------
“So you do not say a god who torments has set the house on fire?”
They both said no to that. Then he explained to them how everything that comes to them is the harvest that springs from their deeds. They understood that.
Then the Muno opened his mouth again for the first time and said with a mocking laugh:
“You have succeeded well, wise one, in showing that man does everything himself, that there is no god.”
“And who created man? Did he do that himself?” -----------------
Cursing, the Muno flew into a rage.
“Have you come here, stranger, to deprive me of my harvest? What have we to do with you?”
“It would be better if you were to listen to what we have to tell,” was Gautama’s calm retort.
Gautama divided his pupils and sent them over the country as far as the Muno’s influence reached, which took some weeks. He came face to face with the Muno once more when he was teaching in a village square.
“Do not believe him; he is a fraud, who seeks only his own advantage.”
A man called back:
“He is not. You demanded payment from us for your blasphemy. We had to clothe and feed you. This man takes nothing from us, but teaches us what makes us happy.”
“Let me ask just one question,” said the Muno insistently. “If he can answer me that, I will go away and disturb you no more.” ----------
“Tell me, wise man, what is the soul?”
“The soul, Muno, is that which weeps within you day and night, because you allow it to starve, because you mishandle it. The soul is the best in us, which stems from above, and rests not until we bear it up again. But if we do not this the souls weeps, as yours does.”
And at that the man covered his face and wept bitterly. ---------------------
When the worst pain was over, Gautama put his arm around the man’s shoulders:
“You poor man, what you must have suffered! How your soul must have starved, that you could find no other way than to try to destroy it. But friend, the soul cannot be destroyed. It is stronger than anything else; for it comes from above. It knows about God, but it can only speak to you of Him if you listen to it.”
And Gautama went on talking to the man, who went with him like a child. He was at every meeting. He had many questions to ask. At last he pleaded:
“Wise one, take me with you.”
But Gautama showed him that his task was here.
Take note of the relevant Biblical admonition:
“And do not shrink in fear from those who kill the body, for they are not
able to kill the soul.” (Matthew 10:28).
And Man seeks his Long Home,
And the Mourners will walk round the streets ---
Ere the Silver Cord’s loosed ...
And Man goes to the earth that he was,
And his Soul will return to the GOD Who gave it!
(Chapter 12, verses 6-7, Ecclesiastes).
As he approached the end of his life, Gautama continued to teach those closest to him. On the morning of his final day on earth, two of the women closest to him, Lidandha and Vada, spread a cloth beside the altar-stone, which cast shade on Gautama. Of late, this had been his favourite resting-place.
Then Gautama sat leaning back against the stone with his hands clasped, and looked up through the gap, yearning, longing.
In his last moments, Gautama saw again the High visions he had been granted to experience at his spiritual awakening for his great mission. He saw again the high guides, and experienced the colours and sounds that are only of the Higher Spheres.
But his body could not bear this excess of power. Luminous hands gently released it from the upward-floating soul, which hastened to where its King called it. ...
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Reader: With the conclusion of the story of Gautama Buddha, the lives of the Truth-Bringers for India from the Akashic Chronicle have been set into a further “written record” in this Work.
For India’s people, the fact of an actual Akashic Record existing as the “preserver to eternity” of all that humans have said and done, is well established in their long history, for the word Akasha is derived from Sanskrit. More especially for you, therefore, the true lives of Krishna and the two Buddhas should induce you to really think hard about your millions of gods that, about which the Prophet Jeremiah sagely noted of all stone idols, can do nothing for you, because --- they possess no life!
Proclaiming that fact as Spiritual Truth: To all who read this Section of the Work, we sincerely hope that your “spirit” was sufficiently open to “recognise” that the “flow” of the narratives was not something “invented” as some kind of nice “bedtime story for children”. That would be a tragic mistake --- for you!
HINDUISM AND THE “WORSHIP” OF ANIMALS
THE RAT AND MONKEY TEMPLES
Reader: We have followed the great spiritual missions of Krishna, Siddhartha Buddha, and Gautama Buddha --- a span of time from Krishna to the two Buddhas that stretched over thousands of years.
Yet, like the efforts of all other Truth-Bringers for all other peoples, India, too, ultimately rejected that Highest of Knowledge. So much so, that India fell as far away from those teachings as it is possible to fall. That “descent from true spiritual knowledge” produced one faction of Hinduism which, as well as the worship of “stone gods”, also includes the “worship” of specific animals. We do not mean the well-known, so-called “sacred cows” of India, which are “untouchable”. No: We mean the “worship” of monkeys and rats, to which even temples have been built.
What is the clear connotation here? Well: Human beings ------- who are of “the spirit” ------- have actually regressed to such a point that the worship of monkeys and rats in the respective temples dedicated to them, is perversely believed to be correct and somehow spiritual. The worship of “living animals” as “gods” that in the great Creation occupy a far lower level than do human beings, are nonetheless accorded a place that they cannot ever occupy ---- for animals are not of “the Spirit”.
Their inner animating life force is “soul”, which, in the Great Creation of God, is subordinate to “Spirit”. We have already learned that in the Discourse on Genesis.
In addition, from the Akashic Record we have heard the words of Gautama Buddha as he “put right” the very wrong beliefs of the Brahman interpretation of reincarnation prevalent across India at the time. His words: “Once a human being --- only a human being” stand true for all time!
This, therefore, is the great and ultimately unfathomable question! Yet under the auspices of the most dangerous application of political correctness ever in the history of the human race, just to even broach such a question renders the questioner liable to charges of perhaps “impugning the sanctity” of one of the so-called great and supposedly-sacred “religions of humanity”.
Thus, nothing must be said against it. So strange that the ultimate choice for either Life Eternal, or Death Eternal seems rarely to feature to any degree of “deep thinking” in the thought-processes of most peoples on earth.
Notwithstanding the clear reality that what we write here will be condemned widely and no doubt very vociferously, we nonetheless “Fulfil our Mission” of Correcting what continues to be the Spiritually-wrong of human beliefs!
Note, however, that such Correction is once more not directed to the mass of Indian “animal worshippers” who will not change anyway, but to the “few” who might, and who can thereby begin to set out on the path to Life Eternal!
So: Let us ask the question that surely puzzles many more people than just this writer! How can a human being, any human being, who has been gifted with conscious life, who is thus consciously aware, able to speak a complex language, mathematically calculate and problem-solve, use computer technology, then look down on a rat, a creature that has not one elevating attribute of any kind --- and worship it and, in addition, want to return as one?
It is beyond any kind of rational belief! The associated question is: How can a religion/culture sink to such a level?
The “return” to the old, very foolish and spiritually-wrong beliefs of the “transmigration of souls” between species has resulted in that particular Hindu faction expressing the desire and hope that they will be reincarnated as monkeys or rats; evidently so that they, too, can be fed, watered and cared for, and worshipped. Do they not know that, even if it were possible --- which it is not --- rats in all parts of the world are rightly reviled and considered “vermin”! So where do they think they might “reappear” again, to be fed and worshipped?
The documentaries made about this totally-incomprehensible “reality”, show groups of worshippers whose faces reveal a total unawareness of how terribly wrong their belief is. Even young women in the bloom and beauty of womanhood, and dressed in the beautiful dress of India, yet walk among rat droppings, reverentially feeding these carriers of pestilential disease.
Animal worship desecrates the Perfect and Immutable Laws of The Almighty God’s Sublime Creation. Believers and practitioners, in this case too, you are impotent against the great Law of Reciprocity. For the transgression of according worship to animals instead of to The Most High --- He Who granted us conscious Life --- will bring a terrible but exactly commensurate “return”!
Poor India at this End-Time for the human race! Krishna, Siddhartha, and Gautama told you to stop such wrong practices and leave your millions of “stone gods” behind.
During the Coronavirus Pestilence, a crazily-unbelievable scene from the Indian Sub-continent was televised across the world. At a time of desperate struggle against a virulent and invisible killer where a key defence against it was the new norm called “social distancing”, a crowd of many hundreds of “worshippers” made up a long procession of “mourners”.
Not so strange, one might think. Not so, for the ‘thing” for which they paraded and mourned was a resplendently-dressed “bull”!
SUMMARY
With incontrovertible and clarifying logic through the lives of Spiritually-Enlightened men appointed by God; from the “Pages of Time” we have woven a connecting thread of serious portent for present-day India and the adjoining countries that came under the Ordained and combined Missions of Krishna, and Siddhartha and Gautama Buddha.
The Discourses of this PART IV A reveal an illuminating “spiritual thread” that connects the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah and his clarifying, no-nonsense logic about the stupidity of worshipping “stone gods and idols”; firstly to the High Being Krishna; next and much later to Siddhartha Buddha and Gautama Buddha; and then to “Thomas the Doubter”, the disciple of Jesus!
The incredible journey of Thomas from the land of Judea to Southern India to teach the then Highest Knowledge surely ranks as one of the greatest missions of dedication ever to Truth!
A land of more than one billion human souls divided into numerous factions of the primary religion of Hinduism and also other faiths, and still holding to a caste system that was never intended to develop to its present “form”; India stands on the very brink of a terrible abyss. Of course, all other peoples also stand before their own chasms.
The great difference with India, however, is that despite the spiritually-elevated teachings of three key Indian men whose High Mission it was to take the people away from the senseless idolatry of very dead “stone gods”; across the land nothing really changed.
Yes, small pockets did emerge to practise a different and higher religion than simple idol worship. However, the greater, wide-spread refusal to leave the old “stone gods” behind, coupled with a too-strongly entrenched degree of fatalism which ostensibly teaches that “one cannot change one’s fate”, has effectively now set-in-place a terrifying outcome for India.
Despite so much Grace and help from the only Source of All Life, the people of India stubbornly cling to and worship such a proliferation of “very dead gods” that they now number around the ludicrous and quite insane figure of 300 million. There could never be any sane reason why any people would “create” so many completely dead and useless “objects of worship”.
Despite great and beautiful architecture, beneficial ancient medicines and now high-tech engineering and technology producing greater and greater wealth for India; all of these things in the end will mean absolutely nothing if the knowledge of Divine Truth that was once gifted to the people continues to be rejected. For in every nation, only “the few” of perhaps just a few peoples will surmount the great, impending “human cull”.
Reader: In the light of the Title of this Work and its primary focus on the “big three” of monotheism --- ultimately directed to: The Unpaid Debt for Golgotha --- you may wonder why we have included a searching analysis of India and her traditional religions. Well, it really should be very clear! --- For 21st century India, the “message” is this:
Do not make the fatal mistake of assuming that one of the primary aspects of this very large Volume ---- The Murder of The Son of God ---- has nothing to do with you because you have your own “gods”. You obviously believe that they will give you succour and protection otherwise you would not have clung to them for so long. For the present “forms” of Buddhism, the uncountable numbers of statues and statuettes that are supposed to portray and radiate the virtues wisdom of “the Buddha”, in the end won’t work for you either! You now know the Truth about the lives and missions of your great Spiritual Teachers, and thus what that really means for all of you.
Your especial line of Truth-Bringers, given to you out of the Love and Grace of The One True God, instructed you in no uncertain terms to let your “stone gods” and idols go. Under the aegis of The Almighty’s Immutable Decrees; while they lived among you they destroyed them in your religions, your cultures, in your very thinking. Why then did you allow them to return after each Teacher, in turn, had gone? Why did you not “kill off” your “stone idols”, forever?
In the time in which those great men were gifted to you, the Indian people; there were probably fewer gods to contend with and worship. Yet, today, the staggeringly-unbelievable and totally ludicrous number of 300 million odd is India’s “religious legacy” in the 21st century.
No race of people, no nation on earth, or the people who comprise those nations, are exempt from their transgressions against Divine Eternal Law. As we have already made clear: We have all lived before, and we have therefore all been exposed to the teachings of at least one of the great Prophets and/or Truth-Bringers.
Therefore, we sit, all now together, in the same vast boat, floating on a sea that is incrementally becoming more dangerous to that boat with each passing moment. That is our human-collective “now Prophecy”!
Therefore India: For you, too; we give you Isaiah’s Great Prophecy:
The “Earth” mourns and fades away, the “World” languishes and fades
away, the haughty people of the “Earth” do languish.
The “Earth” also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
have transgressed the “Laws”,
changed the decrees,
broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore has the curse devoured the “Earth”, and those that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the “Earth” are burned,
and few men left.’
At the very start of this Work, I indicated then that the breadth of the subject matter of the Work would generate for every culture and every religion across the world, a whole gamut of responses ranging from agreement about some facets of it, all the way to the sure and greater number of reactions encompassing surprise, mild opposition, anger, extreme opposition, and anger, all the way to blind rage!
Reader: The “precious truths” of global humanity must not be challenged in any shape or form! Let us all, instead, live in foolish ignorance. In itself, that is a truly foolish notion!
Here, in this Work, the Great Questions to Life that human ignorance have so long distorted, are exposed and “CORRECTED”!
DISCOURSE 35
INDIA’S TWO FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES
“THOMAS” AND GANDHI
THOMAS THE “DOUBTER”:
THE DISCIPLE OF JESUS IN INDIA
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONE TRUE GOD “RETURNS” TO THE LAND OF 300 MILLION FALSE GODS
Reader: The next kind of “Truth-bringer” for India was Thomas, the disciple of Jesus, The Son of God!
Krishna, Siddhartha, and Gautama had all brought the knowledge of The One True God a long time before him. Now Thomas brought an addition of greater dimension to the revelations they were graced to teach!
By any standards, Thomas’ amazing journey from the Holy Land of the Bible to India must surely be considered a monumental achievement. Tasked by Jesus to “go out among the Gentiles and preach The Word”, the disciples ranged far and wide to fulfil that commission. Thomas probably travelled the furthest.
The general history of his ministry in India is believed to have covered two phases. The first took him to the Parthian Empire of present-day Afghanistan. Christians believe that King Gundapar, who ruled in India, allowed Thomas to preach the Gospel in his kingdom.
On his second visit to India in 52 A.D., Thomas landed at Usiris in Kerala state. He made his first converts in Cranganore, Palayur and Quilon. From out of the new converts at Palayur he appointed priests from among the leading families. In addition, he organised the building of the first church in India there. It is believed that he also established six other churches throughout India.
Thomas moved on to the east coast of the country, made conversions there, and travelled on to China. He returned to India and set up his base at Madras, now Chennai. The new religion of Christianity was viewed with suspicion. Thomas was persecuted and suffered the fate of most of history’s Prophets.
In 72 A.D., he was killed in a cave in what is now called Thomas’ Mount. It is believed by some that the followers of the “stone goddess”, Kali, were responsible. It is thought that Thomas might have condemned the religion.
Armenian Christians discovered his grave in the sixth century in Chennai and built a church on the site in a village originally called Mylapore. The village is now known as “Betumah” or “Town of Thomas”.
In 1523, Portuguese settlers built a larger church over his grave and called it San Thomas after the apostle.
In 1898, Dom Henriques Reed de Silva, the first Bishop of Mylapore, built a new neo-Gothic cathedral over the old site. It is supposed to contain a small bone of Thomas’ hand, together with a portion of blood-stained earth, and the head of the lance which killed him.
In 1906, the Diocese of San Thome was established at the personal request of King Philip II of Portugal to Pope Paul V. Today, this is the centre of the San Thome Basilica.
The remains of the sanctified Thomas were later transferred to Edessa in Iraq, and then later to the Greek island of Chios. Thomas’ final journey was to Ortona in Italy, where his remains lodge to this day.
Even though Kings and rulers of past times might have readily permitted a very different kind of religion to be spread about in their kingdoms, the past two centuries in India have been witness to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of killings for the most terrible of reasons: religion against religion. Remember this, people!
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“Wherever you find intolerance and malice, or even enmity and stirring up strife against others who are not of the same faith, wherever men seek to harm those of a different belief, either the teaching is not from God or it has been falsified. And such people serve only the Darkness, never the Light!
The teaching that permits this must be distorted, whatever it is called; for a teaching that has not yet been distorted will also swing in purity in the Laws of God. It does not produce human beings who wish to harm their fellow-men!”
IMANUEL:THE “SON OF MAN”
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Whilst religious killings continue to the present-day, all across the globe a powerful, inexorable, and unstoppable change now drives such “raging”. We have stated it before, and we will state it again.
In the context of India’s impending great travail, it is critical to recognise that The Eternal Laws of Creation are exerting their inexorable Power more and more decisively in their ordained fulfilment, in order for all of mankind to “receive” their commensurate “reciprocal returns” for all deeds perpetrated against that Immutable Divine Law!
GANDHI
THE MAHATMA’S TRAGIC ERROR FOR INDIA AND THE WORLD
Reader: The life and times of Gandhi are well recorded in many volumes, documentaries and films, so we will not dwell too much on what is already known. There is however, one key facet of his life, which we have designated as his “tragic error”, that only “the few” among mankind know.
By Divine ordination, his life on earth occupied roughly the same time period as the Bringer of The All-Truth --- Imanuel: The Spirit of Truth!
Thus, Gandhi was born into the Indian race at precisely the time also ordained for that nation and its people to receive the final and highest of knowledge: The Eternal Laws of Creation ----- exactly that which this very large tome Proclaims.
Whilst Gandhi obviously sensed that his destiny was to one day lead India to independence; that alone was not the sole reason for his birth. It was ultimately for that other far more profound purpose. His years of strongest activity were the same years where other leading figures in many countries also occupied key positions in the fabric of their respective nations. It was also the time when the world was inexorably marching towards the greatest global conflict in our history.
Because those times were the critical years in which the human race was to receive the knowledge of The Grail Message, those key figures were the very people and leaders in their respective and diverse positions and occupations who were incarnated to also find and recognise The Truth of God for their peoples! And concomitantly, therefore, to also recognise Imanuel and stand with Him as His Disciples!
In Gandhi’s case, his work earned him the great respect of many peoples, not least throughout the then British Empire. So much so, that had he fulfilled the true purpose of his life and found that Highest of Knowledge when the time came for him to cross the path of Imanuel during his travels, many other peoples in other countries might also have at least been open sufficiently to potentially accept the same. But Gandhi did not recognise, and thus perhaps the greatest potential for The Truth to spread much further and much faster than it ever did, died with his great mistake.
Whilst we may think it commendable to see the little man in a loincloth humbly spinning yarn in the ancient traditional way of India, the fact forever remains that in placing those things first as the greatest example he could give, he condemned India and its peoples to a continuation of what was always just the old and dead. And thus is it so to this day!
Of course, the further fact remains that it is very probable that even if Gandhi had found The Grail Message, and through his influence spread the knowledge of it at least partially throughout India, he would likely have still been assassinated. However, perhaps not by one driven by political considerations, but more likely by a religious fanatic, a worshipper of “stone idols” threatened by The Truth!
The greater personal tragedy for Gandhi is that towards the end of his life, he intuitively-recognised that he had “missed something” very profound. He was reported to have said:
“I missed my guru!”
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Reader: You already know that this Work is not ordained to be so much a “helping chance” at this critical time for us all ---- though it still can be for many who cross its path. Primarily, its purpose is to show where, over thousands of years, we have constantly refused the many, many “helping chances” Graciously Gifted to us from out of The Love of God!
India, of course, is not alone when it comes to distorting the great Truths we have all been given. As we have well-identified, all the great religions have suffered terribly under the intellectual meddling that only we human beings are wont to do. Perversely, we have never been able to simply “leave them alone”. We always thought we knew better. How foolish!
Consequently, our final contribution for the Indian peoples is from the very Truth that Gandhi was born to find and bring to the attention of that nation. But he failed his mission. In the end, of course, virtually all peoples of earth have become exactly the Title of the following Lecture from Imanuel’s Grail Message --- precisely that for which Gandhi, incarnated into the Indian nation, was tasked to find.
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BELIEVERS MERELY OUT OF HABIT
This failure, forcibly brought about in the free volition by greed and conceit, is so unprecedented that such guilt on the part of the indolent human spirits on earth now appears far too great to enable those who are awakening to obtain forgiveness once again in the Love of the Almighty!
Only damnation by withdrawal of all the blessings from the Light, and disintegration, should be the well-deserved lot of the human spirits on earth, who with their conceited stubbornness have steadily driven an entire part of Creation towards inevitable destruction, were it not that this Love of the Almighty is also simultaneously connected with Perfect Justice --- because it is God’s Love which will forever remain incomprehensible to the human spirits!
And the Justice of God cannot entirely abandon something to destruction as long as tiny sparks are glowing therein which do not deserve this!
For the sake of this minute number of little spirit sparks longing for the Light, the Word of the Lord was once more brought to this so-near-to-disintegrating part of Creation, that all those who carry the right inner volition for it, and who really bestir themselves with all the strength still left to them, may save themselves.
However, this volition must be differently constituted from how so many of the numerous believers in God on earth imagine it! ----
IMANUEL: THE SON OF MAN
And “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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...the Word of the Lord was once more brought to this so-near-to- disintegrating part of Creation, that all those who carry the right inner volition for it, and who really bestir themselves with all the strength still left to them, may save themselves”.
As we have stated so often; “...the Word of the Lord” that “was once more brought to this so-near-to-disintegrating part of Creation” --- was brought to us in the 20th century!
Reader: Take with fervent Gratitude the “revealing” knowledge that you have been permitted to now know. Do not become “a believer merely out of habit” as millions upon millions on earth have long done. And never forget this First of Commandments:
“I am the Lord Thy God, thou shalt have none other Gods before Me!”