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  • Wisdom for practice
  • Wisdom is applied knowledge
  • Wisdom spreads itself

Wisdom for practice

Wisdom is for practice, not for continuous speaking. If we keep on speaking about the Masters, the Rays, and the Hierarchies, we are only missing our duties for the present.

Wisdom is applied knowledge

Knowledge, when applied becomes wisdom. We gain a lot of knowledge, but it has to be applied in daily life, then it transforms itself into wisdom. Through wisdom we will experience the existence.

Wisdom spreads itself

We need not be anxious to spread the wisdom without working it with ourselves. It is a wrong understanding if one thinks that he can spread wisdom. Wisdom knows how to spread itself. It only needs channels.

Hanuman

The Vanaras

Hanuman

There is a link between every Master of Wisdom. They all belong to the one Kingdom of God; no-one has a kingdom of his own. However, they render different duties. They are examples to us because they were also humans at one time and they had similar limitations as we have. They have also committed mistakes but they have overcome them and have ascended.

In addition, there are also Masters who have descended to the planet ages ago. They stayed with us to help us until the entire mankind has developed.

They are a kind of avatars because they have come down from higher circles. One of such beings is Hanuman; his work is described in the great Indian epic Ramayana. This story of Valmiki happened in the early stages of our present epoch of the world, the fifth or Aryan race. The main characters of the story, however, belong to different ages. Hanuman originates from the Lemurian epoch, the third age. Ravana, the demon with great magical powers who kidnapped Rama’s wife Sita, is a character from the Atlantean time. Rama, an embodiment of the Divine Law, is an Aryan with a pure mind.

In the Lemurian race there were a kind of super-natural monkeys called Vanaras. Nara means ‘human’, Vanara means superhuman being. They are not monkeys actually but they are high beings of golden light that can change their form at will. To hide from the common people, they took to the form of monkeys. Hanuman appears as a monkey but also as an initiate in a beautiful shape or even as a giant. When he entered the island of Lanka, he first took to the form of a cat. He has no fixed form.

There are sages who are beyond all shape and they have the ability to transform into any dimension. For them, the bodies are just vehicles to work with; they don’t reside in them continuously. Usually, these beings are very humble and they take to such simple forms that it is generally not noticed by the worldly people. Thus, they might show themselves in the form of a serpent or of an eagle, in the shape of swans, doves or of white elephants. These beings are called Kama Rupas, those who can change their form according to time, place and need.

Many Hollywood movies show characters that can change their form. Even though it is an imagination, they are related to these abilities. In advanced stages of Yoga there are exercises where the disciple visualises himself in a bright miniature form of the size of a thumb. He consolidates in the etheric light shape. This leads into the direction of an Akashic movement and dissolution of the form to join the Absolute and to realise ourselves as Atman.

Parentage and Youth

Hanuman is a manifestation of the First Logos, of the Cosmic Fire, which is called Agni, Shiva or Rudras. Rudras can move things from one place to the other, they can create and also destroy. At every level the Rudras emerge as the first ones, at the supra-cosmic plane as Agni, at the cosmic plane as Rudra, at the solar plane as Maruts, the vibrations of the wind, and on the planetary plane as the light of the sunrays. Hanuman is one of the Maruts. Therefore, he is worshipped as Son of Rudra, of Vayu etc. He is a being of synthesis, through whom all 7 rays get expressed. Hanuman is considered as one of the oldest teachers on the planet and is also called a World Teacher. In the Puranas it says that he will take the position of the creator in the future creation.

The mother of Hanuman was Anjana meaning the incomprehensible one; no one could understand her beauty and power. She married a Deva intelligence called Keshari, which creates the etheric plane of golden glow. Lord Shiva gave his sperm which was transferred into the womb of Anjana and thus, Hanuman was born in “immaculate conception”. His original name was Anjanea, the son of Anjana. Hanuman’s birthday is celebrated at the 10th descending moon phase of Taurus. He was born in the area of today’s Andaman Islands which belong to India.

Another great Vanara, the monkey king Vali, lived at the place which today we call Bali. Vali had great power but became diabolic. He did not want anybody to become more powerful than himself. Thus, Vali tried to kill Hanuman when he was in his mother’s womb. He entered into the womb of Anjana and became molten gold to bring about the death of the child. Even in the womb Hanuman was already very radiant and immortal. Therefore, the gold could not do him any harm, he just became more radiant. Thus, Vali decided to make friends with him later.

Hanuman tried to veil his radiance by growing a fur around himself. As a five-year old child he was fascinated by the sun ball and he felt that the sun was a fruit. He jumped up and devoured it. The solar system got into a big crisis. A cosmic king named Sakra wanted to protect the creation and hit Hanuman with Indra’s thunderbolt. Unconsciously Hanuman fell to the ground. He was again brought back to life but kept a lower jaw damaged by the thunderbolt. In Sanskrit, ‘Hanuman’ means someone with a damaged lower jaw.

It is said that on his journey to the Sun Hanuman saw the shadow of the Earth, the North Node and the South Node, and he neutralised them. Thus, people who suffer from negative effects of the nodes worship Hanuman so that he neutralises these impacts.

The Sun took pleasure in Hanuman; Hanuman became his disciple and got a radiant diamond body through the Sun’s magnetisation. All initiates beyond the fifth initiation have a diamond body. Hanuman had a golden body by birth and a diamantine body by the Sun. In India he is worshipped in orange colour. His worship is the key to the sixth ray to overcome the dominance of the emotional body.

Hanuman was so modest and humble that no one knew how powerful he was. Because of his self-forgetfulness he had to be reminded of his power, otherwise he knows nothing of it. He is not in the state ‘I AM’ or ‘THAT I AM’ but in the state of THAT. He does not recollect himself.

Hanuman’s teacher, the Sun, said to him, “Don’t support Vali, the monkey king. He has gone astray and does not support the Divine Law. With the help of my energy, Sugriva was born, his younger brother. Support Sugriva as a counsellor, for he pursues noble objectives.” Thus, Hanuman became Sugriva’s minister and counsellor.

Hanuman and Rama

These are no fairy tales but stories belonging to the Buddhic plane. The Buddhic plane, also called the fourth plane, is ruled by the element of air. There matter is light and it has a greater flexibility. Hanuman, the son of the air or of the fourth plane appears in the fourth song of the Ramayana. The fifth song describes Hanuman’s work for the liberation of Sita.

The Ramayana is full of esoteric secrets about the universe and man. Rama represents the Lord, Hanuman the teacher and Sita the soul which is separated from the wholeness of Life. When she wants to have the golden deer, which is an illusion, she is kidnapped by a demon of over-activity who wants to possess all that he likes. Ravana keeps Sita imprisoned on the island of Lanka which stands for the separated consciousness. After Sita got locked up, she feels remorse and starts praying to the Lord. She only thinks of Him and shows a fiery aspiration to be re-united with him.

Rama, the Lord, searches for Sita, the abducted soul. He sends Hanuman, the teacher, because Sita is searching for the Lord. The teacher is the intermediary between the Lord and the disciple, between the soul and the universal soul. The element of air, manifested in Hanuman, creates this link.

Rama gives Hanuman his ring so that the latter can identify himself to Sita. Thus, when a disciple meets a teacher, he also feels deep in his inner that this is his teacher. Hanuman is the only one who can enter into Lanka. He speaks with Sita and assures her that he will stay in Lanka for a while. During this time he destroys many demons; sitting on a big arch he fights with them. The Son of the Air symbolically sits on the diaphragm and purifies the system from a part of the demons who dwell in the field of the solar plexus, the sacral centre and the Muladhara. It is the abyss filled with emotions, mental concepts and mundane material. Before Hanuman returns to Rama he warns the ego Ravana and burns down Lanka. Together with Rama Hanuman then leads the monkey army into battle and helps to win the war. In this he never feels great and neither has any personal motives for his action but submits himself totally to the Lord.

Since Treta Yuga Hanuman has remained on the planet and eternally sings the sound RAM, the seed sound of Cosmic Fire, which purifies things spontaneously and directly. He is the most ancient one in the Himalayas and belongs to the four great teachers who are beyond the three qualities but are present in the petals of the Muladhara, the base centre, of every human and who help us with the ascent from matter. He rules over the northern petal associated with silence and over the energy line of Sushumna which rises from the heart and links us with the Divine. Therefore this line which moves the Prana upward is also called Hanuman, and “chief life”, the guiding life, by Master CVV.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: Lectures on Secret Doctrine / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Psychology. The World Teacher Trust - Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India.