Questions Answered in Writing

Nowadays there is a large quantity of information on spiritual growth available. What should be our responsibility towards the knowledge and the energies made available to us?

Often it is misinformation; misinterpreted and misconstrued, not to mention misunderstood. Where there is true knowledge there is also knowing of responsibilities. Again it depends what one understands by the word knowledge – knowledge in its true sense does not mean mere information – it means understanding. Understanding includes knowing of responsibility. Where there is true knowledge there is responsibility. Not knowing of what responsibility means implies there is no knowledge – maybe only information which is externally acquired and not internally consciously understood. With knowledge there is right use of energies because there is responsibility.

Today there is a lot of talking about the transition that we are living. It is said that the Earth will pass through a deep transformation and that the passage to a new dimension will be marked by the harmonious synchronisation with the energies emitted from the centre of the Galaxy. Is it true? Can you clarify this idea?

We have been living a transition from the moment the Earth and all that which is within it came into being – nay, from the first intent in Consciousness, even before the Earth became visible in matter. That transition is a transmutation in evolutionary manifestation. Yes, at this point of time in the Earth’s transition and whatever is associated with it is marked for a radical jump, so to speak, for it is an important transition in and of the consciousness.

All that which happens in ‘cosmic space’ can affect the Earth on a certain plane – for Earth forms part of a Cosmic Whole; but what we are talking about is internal to Earth in terms of its consciousness and the changes that will come from within. It is turning in and of the Consciousness that is taking place. Before ‘settling’ there will be much that will not be in order. It is a period of marked change and much turmoil. So also in the cosmic environment, for everything in creation is in constant flux, being in the nature of Dynamic Consciousness. Modification in and transmutation of Galactic energies is happening all the time, and at times radically more so. These times are going to be marked by special displays of activities and new discoveries in astronomical research and therefore for all humanity. But these once again are external to Human Consciousness unless imbibed and understood in terms of the Reality as a whole and made subjective.

Is it true that we are witnessing the embodiment of a new model of Consciousness and the birth of a new race?

Not a new ‘model of Consciousness’, surely …. What does that mean anyway!!!? – but there is a pressure for a revision, a review and renewing of the understanding as a whole, and opening to a new level of Consciousness and therefore a new modus of existence leading to the unfolding of the next manifestation – even a new race – which means an evolutionary jump at the level of existence just as it was from the animal to the Human for example, although even more radical. This process has begun, but it must be remembered it is a process and to be worked out through time, just as the previous ones were.

Is it possible to be late in the evolutionary journey?

Yes. Otherwise you miss the boat – for this jump will be conscious and with an active participation of the Being, unlike the previous ones which were involuntary, with nature carrying them through.

What will happen to those who will not reach the evolutionary goal?

They will remain where they continue to be, just like the apes that remained apes while some of their companions became humanised. Even so much of the Human is still animal – just a thinking one; therefore more destructive – pathologically more destructive.

Does spiritual suicide exist? How does it happen?

When you do not sincerely seek what is today staring you in the face.

When you deny yourself knowing the Reality by not starting yourself on the Way.

One million years of culture and technological development reaching to space conquest and genetic engineering – but man is still questioning himself.  Why? How? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? What is the meaning of life?

What culture? All this is external to his Being and Consciousness. All past ‘cultures’, therefore, passed away leaving very little trace of ‘themselves’. Only those that had also worked upon themselves have left a culture for the human consciousness to continue on in its march to the next manifestation.

For answers – real answers and not just information – one has to start on the way; and to start on the way you must find one who knows the way.

Why so much restlessness in the human mind?

Because they have not fully turned to finding themselves by starting on the way to knowing themselves. Until such time, the restlessness will remain for as long as there is no sense of true fulfilment.

Why does man suffer?

Because of the above; because of not knowing himself, herself; because of his, her incompleteness.

Does free human choice really exist? What is it?

Yes. You will know when you are Free.

Arya Vihar

30 January 1999