The Community of Maitreya
Preparation for Collaboration
It requires preparation on our part to be able to work for a Master. We need a clean and eager intellect to be able to receive intuitive ideas from the higher circles, and this requires preparation. We are to learn to be careful not to separate with our intellect, but to use it to unite and include. By being friendly, cooperative and out-flowing, we can receive energies from above. As much as we allow the energies that are with us to flow into the environment, energy will continue to flow into us. The practice of cooperation is just as important as the practice of yoga.
Only with kindness, cooperation and love can we build a true community. Such a community is also called the community of Maitreya, Maitreyi Sangha. Lord Maitreya in particular is working to create this community as a brotherhood of humanity on the planet. This community helps people to reach the higher realms. The Maitreya community values cooperation.
Amidst humanity, members of the community are looking for those who cooperate. If we want to join the Maitreya community, we should learn to cooperate and learn not silent non-cooperation. Non-cooperation is a seed of poison that separates us from the surrounding life. It gives birth to doubt and aversion; it leads to weakness and separation.
The first step to kindness and cooperation is communication. Being communicative allows a free flow of energy into the environment. Communication enables collaboration and gives the experience of community. It is not about communicating personal experiences, but things and events related to the work or the community. It is about not withholding from others information that we know but passing it on to people who do not know something. Where there is no communication, the energies are blocked and the work cannot happen. When we withhold information and do not share it, it is because of the energy of power that we unconsciously carry within. By sharing good information between all groups, we are energetically connected.
Knowledge is seen as a means of reaching the heart and experiencing community in the heart, where souls meet and rejoice. Community in the heart is the basis for becoming a member of the Maitreya community. Where there is a heart, there is compassion. We feel in our hearts the pain, sorrow and difficulties of our fellow human beings. Any calamity on the planet, such as fire accidents, tsunamis, earthquakes, naturally strike the heart of a true disciple, since discipleship tends the heart. Such tender-hearted ones belong to the community of Maitreya.
Community as Souls
The members of the community tend to heal any mishap on the planet. They are true servants, and they predominantly pray for the well-being of people and for the restoration of order in disturbed conditions. They are mobile magnetic healers spread all over the planet. The term “world server” really applies to them. These members of the community are very dear to Lord Maitreya.
The soul is in community and communion while the personality tries to build its own walls. We unite with the soul in others. We unite in the souls and thus overcome the personalities. First, we see ourselves and the Light within us. Then, we see the Light in others, and later we try to see the Light in everyone else. When we finally see only the Light, there are no others. I AM THAT as the others, indeed there are no 'others'. It is one soul working through many, one life force working through many forms.
Depending on our striving, we find our own soul reality. When we stand in the Light of the I AM, meeting as hearts, as souls, becomes easier or even effortless. Therefore, the eyes smile, the heart opens and communion as souls happens. Communion in consciousness frees people from the cocoon of individual life. Experiencing communion is what we do in group living. Group living requires shedding individual personalities and uniting with the one consciousness that operates through many. The experiment of group living has subsequently led to development in the participants, both in the East and in the West. Group living seems to liberate the person from their conditioned individualistic lifestyle.
Families and Communities
The family is a natural group and family life is a good training ground in many aspects. It enables us to learn how to compromise, accept the views of others and put them before our own. When we enter a larger group, we don't know how to behave and compromise at first if we haven't learned it in family life. In the family microcosm, we can get training on how we should behave as a group member.
Therefore, we need to strengthen the tradition of the family again and introduce good traditions into the family. If possible, we should do our meditation within the family. It is also advisable to carry out our external service activities within the family. The right seed is planted in children when they perform service in society together with their parents. Families that live together in peaceful community generate dynamic positive vibrations that contribute significantly to peace in the environment. That is why the Masters promote living in the community that includes all fellow creatures such as the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, etc.
When we want to join the community of Maitreya, we think of the community and the work it does. We show our love for our fellow human beings through our service, even if it is only on a small scale. For many centuries, members of the community have been engaged in this noble work. Today, Lord Maitreya imparts the knowledge of community life by forming spiritual groups that live together and serve society as a whole.
In the time of Lord Krishna, there were harmonious communities called Brindavans. Brindavan means self-governing and self-protecting groups. The great initiate Pythagoras conceived Pythagorean communities in a similar way. This noble concept of self-governing communities existed in various countries. In Israel, the communities called kibbutz were developed to move the country forward quickly. Group consciousness basically comes from building families and communities where families live together. It is important that these communities are voluntary. No one wants to be ruled or dominated by others.
Uniting and Dividing
There are many divergent opinions in most groups. When we focus on differences, we tend to diverge. All distinctions, differences, demarcations and discriminations belong to the field of personality. But the soul is beyond all these areas.
Wherever synthesis is sought, there is also an effort to neutralize synthesis. While many people strive for unity, the opposite also happens and there is resistance to the efforts towards unity. We see this on a global level. Some rejoice in ongoing conflict, others rejoice in harmony. It culminates on each side. The struggle has to end somewhere. It culminates through a higher alignment that happens in subtle ways.
While on the mundane level there are efforts to divide, separate and promote conflict, in the subtle world great alignments are taking place. We live at a moment when time offers human initiation and solar initiation and we can rise into the realm and light of the soul. Depending on our consciousness, we can engage in such sublime endeavours.
Opposition and Transformation
The community of Maitreya is a community of kindness. The members of the community harbour no enmity against anyone in the world. Those who work against the community are considered indirect collaborators by the community. Through their opposition, they accelerate and manifest the work. They also maintain the Presence of the community through their part of the opposition. Since the Presence is divine, the opponents touched by the divine bring about the necessary transformation in themselves. This process is subtle yet visible.
We can connect and identify with a part of our being with the subtle, the supermundane, while at the same time living in the gross. It is a two-channel view. The members of Maitreya's community do not leave the mundane aside but live the mundane and the supermundane life simultaneously. They form a channel to bring down the higher planes.
Sources used: K.P. Kumar: Teachings of Lord Maitreya Vol. 1 + 2; div. seminar notes; Dhanishta Publications, Visakhapatnam, India. (www.aquariusbookhouse.com).