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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.

The Mahachohan

Planetary Evolution

Vidura

According to the Wisdom Teachings, the evolution of the planet unfolds in three fields: the evolution of the beings, the evolution of their forms, and the evolution of the social formations into tribes, communities, groups, nations as well as their inter-relationships on the social, cultural, economic and spiritual levels.

  • Sanat Kumara presides over the planetary evolution. He is the planetary logos or the soul of the Earth, and he represents the spiritual will of the planet.
  • Lord Maitreya presides over the field of wisdom and all activities that enlighten beings. He is the World Teacher and guides the Hierarchy of teachers at the global level. He supervises all world scriptures and writings as well as the related activities.
  • The field of the formation of matter belongs to the Manu Vaivasvata. His work is to evolve the moulds of forms of the beings, so that they have more possibilities and can absorb more Light.
  • The development of social coexistence is presided by the Mahachohan. He guides the evolution of civilisations and economics. His role is to build a healthy social order that tunes up to the spiritual will. He and his collaborators inspire the people who work in the governments and ensure proper development of the big cities. He tries to impart the knowledge on how to plan the organisational systems for large groups of people, like for example megacities. He was very active with the ancient Romans, to build cities, roads and bridges, the drainage systems and the urban culture. He also works for the human rights and living together in harmony on the different levels of society and to establish the needed equality.

Vidura

The name Mahachohan is a title; it means a great gnostic or sage. In the theosophical teachings he is called the Lord of Civilisations. In the Indian scriptures he is known as Vidura, a man of great knowledge. Over 5000 years ago, at the beginning of Kali Yuga, the Dark Age, he was already a great initiate, before he received the wisdom of Synthesis from Lord Maitreya and became the Mahachohan for this age. His life and his teachings are contained in the great epic Mahabharata, of which the Bhagavad Gita forms a part. At the time of Lord Krishna he was the Chief Counsel at the court of the blind king. He was an initiate who had advised the king untiringly and patiently – for 90 years. In that age, people could live for 200 years. Every day, the king asked for his advice but never followed it. When Krishna once came to the Royal Court, he asked Vidura, “How much of your advice is followed by the king?” Vidura had no answer, and he then asked himself, “Why am I giving advice here, when it is not followed? ‘Royal Advisor’ is only a title without a function.” He immediately took off his crown of advisor, put it at the feet of the king and left. That is how Krishna saved him from an impossible situation.

Knowledge of the Heart

At that time Vidura was very learned but his understanding was still limited; he lacked the experience of Synthesis.

Vidura once invited Krishna for dinner. The great savant was enthusiastic about it and he undertook extensive preparations. Since Krishna only ate fruits, butter and drank cow milk, Vidura went to buy the fresh products. In the meanwhile Krishna arrived. The wife of Vidura, a great devotee of Krishna, was excited. She offered him a seat and asked some questions. Since she felt that he was hungry, she fetched a bunch of bananas and started peeling them. Full of love, she was so absorbed that in her trance she was throwing the bananas away and feeding the peels to Krishna. Krishna looked into the eyes of the lady and smilingly ate the peels. In this state of pure love the intellect had ceased functioning.

When Vidura returned, he was shocked by his wife’s doing. Krishna, however, replied, “Keep quiet, let her do so. The peels given with love taste much better than the fruit. Your wife is absorbed in me, she is no more there. You have so much knowledge but though you would like to have that state of bliss you cannot get it. It only comes when you bring the knowledge to the heart and merge with it in love.”

Disappointment and Initiation

Vidura was the elder half-brother of the blind king Dhritarashtra and of Pandu, and between their sons the Mahabharata war developed. The Pandavas were the rightful heirs but Dhritarashtra had a strong emotional bond to his sons who refused to assign the country or even a part. The blind king did not listen to Vidura’s advice and even grossly insulted him. Vidura hoped that Krishna would avert the war through his mediation efforts. He was very disappointed when Krishna did not behave as he thought: Krishna did not prevent the war but even participated in it.

Vidura did not want to watch the battle and went into the forests. He felt deeply hurt and moved around unrecognized for 30 years with a grudge in his heart. Thus, he did not come to know that in the meantime the war was over, that the Pandavas had obtained the kingdom and that they passed it on to their grandson Parikshit. He also did not know that Krishna had shed his body near the ocean at Dwaraka, at the west coast of India.

From a mundane point of view, Lord Maitreya was the maternal uncle of Vidura. He was born two generations before Lord Krishna but had arrested the impact of aging on his body by virtue of his yoga practices. For 50 years he had learned from his teacher Parasara the wisdom of cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis in the caves of Sravasti, together with the son of Parasara, Vedavyasa. But somehow it was not the time for both of them, and neither of them could be initiated into the path of Bhagavata, the path of Presence, of Synthesis. It was only by Lord Krishna that Maitreya received this inspiration.

Shortly before Krishna left the earth, two disciples had followed him, Maitreya and Uddhava, and he gave them the key of synthesis. Uddhava did not want to let Krishna go, for his devotion was more to the form than to the principle of the Lord. Maitreya could transcend the attachment to the form more easily and realise that there is no death. Krishna explained to Maitreya, “If I want to give grace to people, I don’t need a channel, because I already exist in them as I AM. I will give them my grace from inside. But I will also give them my grace through you and through Uddhava, for all the last initiations. There is yet another disciple who is still in a state of dreaming, Vidura. In my mind I see him as a great light in the Kali Yuga. I will establish through him the administrative aspect of the eternal law. When I am no longer there, he will long for my presence and come to you, and you will give him the teachings. This way he will also be fulfilled.” Krishna also imparted to Maitreya the Plan for the future, installed him as the World Teacher and went away.

Maitreya created a hermitage near Prayaga, at the banks of the River Ganges. There he worked on the Plan in profound contemplation and waited for the return of Vidura.

Vidura did many pilgrimages and walked around without a goal. Whenever he recollected Krishna he also saw the face of the blind king and his insults. Suddenly it came as a flash to his mind that his disappointment had blocked him all the time, and full of remorse he asked Krishna inwardly to awaken him from his nightmare. He wanted to see Krishna again and on his pilgrimage he came near Dwaraka. Suddenly he met Uddhava. He was overwhelmed by emotion. Uddhava’s smile transformed Vidura’s mind into a still lake. He requested to take him to Dwaraka to Lord Krishna. Uddhava then explained to Vidura that in the meantime it had sunk into the ocean and that Krishna had granted him and Maitreya divine experience before Krishna’s passing. Uddhava informed him that Krishna had spoken about him and that he should meet Lord Maitreya.

Thus, they moved to Prayaga. There they saw Lord Maitreya in deep contemplation, sitting in the lotus posture on the sand, and his body radiated golden light. While Vidura prostrated before him and got absorbed into the energies of Maitreya, Uddhava quietly departed.

The Lord of Civilisation

Vidura asked many questions to Maitreya and Maitreya cleared all the confusions. Maitreya taught him the cosmogenesis and the anthropogenesis and also imparted to him the doctrine of Yoga as it is given by Sanat Kumara himself. By the grace of Maitreya Vidura could assimilate the whole properly. With Maitreya’s blessing, he became a great initiate and was able to join the Plan to guide the development of civilisation as the Mahachohan.

Today, the Mahachohan cooperates with the Manu and Master Morya in a triangle for the creation of the new civilisation. Master CVV had told them that there is a necessity for a new model of the human body which is better adapted for the new energies. After the Second World War, the human bodies were developed according to the new model and are far superior to the old model. There was a remodelling in 1988 and 1999, so that the children of today are far more electric than before.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: Wisdom Teachings of Vidura / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Man Sacrifice. The World Teacher Trust - Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India.

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From the book: Wisdom Teachings of Vidura