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Lecture delivered at Geneva on 4-9-1983

This evening it is remarked that Dr. Krishnamacharya explains things in such a way that all people can understand. Today's lecture may be an exception to it. Strangely, there is a law in spiritualism that whenever we feel over-confident or a little bit over-enthusiastic of something, immediately the situation warns us not to be so, as long as Nature wants us to become better. If we do not like to face such warnings, Nature gradually begins to keep quiet for the time being, because the fellow is not ready to receive the warnings. That is what happens when we develop faith in Nature, God and spiritualism. As long as we prefer to live without any faith, we are seemingly safe, since we are not asked to face such situations. But of course, such a safety lands us into crisis always, whereas the series of warnings lead us away from crisis day by day. This is one among the strange laws of occultism. It unfailingly affects us and there is no exception to it.

And today's topic, 'The Planetary Chains' is a challenge not to Dr. Krishnamacharya, but to the Masters of Eternal Wisdom. It is a challenging subject to the Masters themselves because after explaining to a certain degree, they felt many times that they could not explain it beyond the degree of mystification, because the heights of the subject are infinite and the depths are self-suffocating. That is the nature of the subject that is given today, but since we are all students and since we are travelling in the same direction, let us try to open the little doors of the eastern window and try to receive the ray of light which contains the seven rays in it. And about light, we have nothing to speak much; there is everything to enjoy and receive, and to prove the truth of it by getting ourselves exposed to it.

Many of you might have gone through the wonderful book called the Secret Doctrine by Madame Blavatsky. The question is exactly like the question “Have you learned to swim across the ocean?” That is what we mean by reading the Secret Doctrine of Madame Blavatsky from cover to cover. I can question you because I don't know swimming, because I stand on the shore and question all the others who are swimming. The book Secret Doctrine is a commentary to certain group of stanzas called the archaic stanzas. The word archaic means the most ancient. There are three sources to these stanzas, and there is one common source to all the three sources.

The traditional scriptural stanzas received by the ancient Tibetans are one. The traditional Indian scriptures, wrongly called the Hindu scriptures, is another. That is what we call the Vedic texts and their commentaries. But remember that the Vedic texts, or the Puranas or the Upanishads, do not belong to Hinduism or Hindus, just as the Christ and his teachings do not belong to the Christians. Christians are only one sect of people who wanted to follow the light of Christ, through the narrow window called religion. Similarly Hindus are one sect of people who wanted to understand and follow what is there in the Vedic texts. The word Hindu didn't exist before the sixteenth century at all. It was the Muslims who invaded India and invented the name Hindu, just as it was Max Muller and his followers who invented the wonderful words Aryan and non-Aryan. There are many falsifications and concoctions which do not belong to these ancient scriptures. So, let us try to meditate upon the commonness of the scriptures, beyond the narrow idea of any religion. Then, we can understand what the Secret Doctrine is.

There are among you some people who are following my classes in the Indian scriptures. They have, to some extent, seen what the Cosmology of the ancient scriptures is. You have seen one sentence which runs like this: ‘Seven are the layers; three times seven are the sticks of fuel to the fire offering called the creation’, which includes the cosmogenesis and the anthropogenesis of every unit creation. The first principle is what is called the septenary principle that exists in everything and that operates in every unit of nature. The tiniest unit that the little human brain can understand is the atom, and the biggest unit that the little human mind can understand is the unit space globe that contains the millions and millions of galaxies. Each galaxy includes in it, millions and millions of Solar Systems, and each Solar System is an atom of its own magnitude. The average span of one Solar System which the human mind understands as the millions and millions of years is a split second in the flickering dance of the atom which we call the Solar System. Let us remember this background as the grand stage of the theatre upon the platform of which the whole drama is taking place.