When you
study religious or spiritual teachings, there are different levels of truth. If
you take the teachings literally... That is Tama. When you try to understand
the inner teachings that is wasto, when you go to the deepest level that is
tumpak.I( In philipines truth is divided into 3 stages lower tama, than wasto milldle and than higher Tumpak)
Many
teachings are symbolic; if you are talking to a 3 year old , you will him
stories , the people living thousands of years ago are like children today,
Even though there were adults, their minds were like that of little children,
the teachers could only teach their through stories.
There is an
inner teaching and an outer teaching, the inner teaching is given to disciples
who are mere intelligent and spiritually more mature. According to st Paul, to
those who are more mature more will be revealed, it is the same in the Hindu
tradition, to those who are spiritually more mature, more will be revealed.
In Christianity
it is said “ Do not throw sacred teachings and practices to young souls who do
not have the intellectual capacity to understand the spiritual teachings.
Dogs are
nice animals, you can play with them and they will lick your face; they love,
all you have to do is give them food and water, take them for a walk and they
will be even more loving. They are not very expensive to look after and they do
not talk!
Dogs are
nice!, but they are not very smart, you cannot teach them mathematics or how to
use the internet.
What Lord Jesus
meant was do not throw the sacred teachings to people who are not very smart,
even though they are very loving, the though they are devotional and good, they
cannot understand the higher teachings.
That is the
qualities of a lot of people, they are nice, they have good hearts, but you
cannot teach them much, People who are not sufficiently intelligent cannot be
taught the inner teachings, you can teach them japa and bhajans you can teach
them bhakti yoga. Through bhakti yoga they can evolve, but the inner teachings
cannot be given them because they get confused.
There is
also a saying “Do Not throw pearls to swine” it means do not throw pearls of wisdom,
the pearls of priceless teachings to pigs.
What do
pigs symbolize? Pigs bite, they can be violent, especially during mating
season, swine or pings symbolize people with unregulated emotions or
unregulated desires; they represent people who are enslaved by their lower
nature. The lower nature consists of the instincts, the lower emotions and
thoughts.
You cannot
teach such people, the higher teachings, that are why you need purification and
character building that is why the Rishis or avatars did not reveal the higher
teachings to the public because they cannot understand them. The teachings
cannot be given to them, so they are told stories instead.
When you
look at the lord Vishnu or Lord Shiva, you must understand that you are only
looking at a painting that symbolizes them. It is not really them; you have to
go beyond the form. If a person cannot go beyond the form, the heart chakra
will be activated but the crown chakra will not be activated. They have love
for the figure or the form but not towards God. If you study the Indian deities,
the teachings are contained in paintings.
Even when
you chant bhajans for your Guru you have to chant in the proper way. Remember
that you are chanting to the spiritual Guru, not the physical body of the Guru,
you are chanting to the great spiritual soul that occupies the physical body of
that Guru. The physical body is not the Guru. It is the great soul that
occupies the physical body that is real Guru. When you understand this concept,
Your bhajans will becomes powerful.
………………
Master choa kok sui.
