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Thus, he attained Enlightenment, or the Awakening, during the night of the full-moon day of the month of May, about the year 528 <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. His being was transformed, and he became the Buddha. | Thus, he attained Enlightenment, or the Awakening, during the night of the full-moon day of the month of May, about the year 528 <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. His being was transformed, and he became the Buddha. | ||
<blockquote>The event was of cosmic import. All created things filled the morning air with their rejoicings and the earth quaked six ways with wonder. Ten thousand galaxies shuddered in awe as lotuses bloomed on every tree, turning the entire universe into “a bouquet of flowers sent whirling through the air.”<ref>Huston Smith, The Religions of Man (New York: Harper & Row, Harper Colophon Books, 1958), p. 84.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>The event was of cosmic import. All created things filled the morning air with their rejoicings and the earth quaked six ways with wonder. Ten thousand galaxies shuddered in awe as lotuses bloomed on every tree, turning the entire universe into “a bouquet of flowers sent whirling through the air.”<ref>Huston Smith, ''The Religions of Man'' (New York: Harper & Row, Harper Colophon Books, 1958), p. 84.</ref></blockquote> | ||
For a total of forty-nine days he was deep in rapture, after which he again turned his attention to the world. He found Mara waiting for him with one last temptation: “How can your experience be translated into words? Return to Nirvana. Do not try to deliver your message to the world, for no one will comprehend it. Remain in bliss!” But Buddha replied: “There will be some who will understand,” and Mara vanished from his life forever. | For a total of forty-nine days he was deep in rapture, after which he again turned his attention to the world. He found Mara waiting for him with one last temptation: “How can your experience be translated into words? Return to Nirvana. Do not try to deliver your message to the world, for no one will comprehend it. Remain in bliss!” But Buddha replied: “There will be some who will understand,” and Mara vanished from his life forever. | ||
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Speaking of the great service Lord Gautama renders to all life in his office as Lord of the World, [[Maitreya]] said on January 1, 1986: | Speaking of the great service Lord Gautama renders to all life in his office as Lord of the World, [[Maitreya]] said on January 1, 1986: | ||
<blockquote>The Lord of the World does sustain the threefold flame in the evolutions of earth by a filigree light extending from his heart. This, then, is the bypassing of the individual’s karma whereby there is so much blackness around the heart that the spiritual arteries or the crystal cord have been cut off. | <blockquote> | ||
The Lord of the World does sustain the threefold flame in the evolutions of earth by a filigree light extending from his heart. This, then, is the bypassing of the individual’s karma whereby there is so much blackness around the heart that the spiritual arteries or the crystal cord have been cut off. | |||
The comparison of this is seen when the arteries in the physical body become so clogged with debris that the area of the flow of blood becomes greatly diminished until it becomes a point of insufficiency and the heart can no longer sustain life. This is comparable to what has happened on the astral plane. | |||
So Sanat Kumara came to earth to keep the flame of life. And so does Gautama Buddha keep this threefold flame at Shamballa, and he is a part of every living heart. Therefore, as the disciple approaches the Path, he understands that its goal is to come to the place where the threefold flame is developed enough here below within his own heart that indeed, with or without the filigree thread from the heart of Gautama Buddha, he is able to sustain life and soul and consciousness and the initiatic path. | |||
Beloved ones, this step in itself is an accomplishment that few upon this planet have attained to. You have no idea how you would feel or be or behave if Gautama Buddha withdrew from you that support of the filigree thread and the momentum of his own heartbeat and threefold flame. Most people, especially the youth, do not take into consideration what is the source of the life that they experience in exuberance and joy. | |||
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Of this gift, Gautama himself said on December 31, 1983: | Of this gift, Gautama himself said on December 31, 1983: | ||
<blockquote>I am very observant. I observe you by the contact of my flame through the thread-contact I maintain to the threefold flame of your heart—sustaining it as I do until you pass from the [[seat-of-the-soul chakra]] to the very heart of hearts [the [[secret chamber of the heart]]], and you yourself are able by attainment to sustain that flame and its burning in this octave. | <blockquote> | ||
I am very observant. I observe you by the contact of my flame through the thread-contact I maintain to the threefold flame of your heart—sustaining it as I do until you pass from the [[seat-of-the-soul chakra]] to the very heart of hearts [the [[secret chamber of the heart]]], and you yourself are able by attainment to sustain that flame and its burning in this octave. | |||
Did anyone here ever recall himself igniting his own threefold flame at birth? Has anyone here ever remembered tending its fire or keeping it burning? Beloved hearts, recognize that acts of love and valor and honor and selflessness surely contribute to this flame. But a higher power and a higher Source does keep that flame until you, yourself, are one with that higher power—your own [[Christ Self]]. | |||
Therefore, all receive the boost of my heart flame and impetus. And as that light passes through me from the Godhead, I therefore perceive many things about you and your everyday life that you might think beyond mention or notice of a Lord of the World, who must be, indeed, very busy. | |||
Well, indeed, I am! But I am never too busy to notice the elements of the Path presented by parents and in families and communities and in the schoolrooms of life everywhere. For I make it my business to see to it that some element of the path of initiation, moving toward the heart of Jesus and Maitreya, is a part of the life of every growing child. | |||
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== Retreats == | == Retreats == | ||