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Man Sacrifice MAN SACRIFICE Master E.K. MAN SACRIFICE Master E.K. Master E.K. Book Trust VISAKHAPATNAM – 530051 © Master E.K. Book Trust Available online: Master E.K. Spiritual and Service Mission www.masterek.org Institute for Planetary Synthesis www.ipsgeneva.com PREFACE Events exist to the created beings, and never to the creation. They are of two categories—the ordinary and the extraordinary. Events of the daily routine can be called the ordinary. Those that present themselves to change and rearrange the routine can be called the extraordinary. The daily routine of a living being, especially of a human being, includes only an expenditure of the span since there is no contribution in it to the expansion of consciousness. Food, sleep, fear, sex, profession, advantage and disadvantage are all of the divisions of the daily routine. The duration of their occurrence cuts out one’s span without contributing to the happiness of oneself or others. The only consequence (not benefit) of these routine incidents comes into existence as the growth of the body with age, the use of the senses and their organs along the patterns of habit and the sparkling of intelligence in a mechanised succession. The wise ones called the aggregate, the habit nature. One learns to seek happiness in the counterparts of the habit nature. Such a learning creeps in imperceptibly and is detected as “death” by the learned. Those who do not grow aware of PREFACE this interpret death in a different way. According to them, death is the inevitable disintegration of the physical body. It is evident that this definition is the result of gross illusion. The succession before the physical death is misunderstood as “Life”. Such an approach makes them experience death during every moment of their span. The Wise ones have discovered a path that saves living beings from this continuous death and makes them enjoy span of life. They called this path, the science of spiritualism, the practical experimentation of which is called the Yoga practice. Those who follow the path cross death and are saved to live life. What about the fate of those who do not heed the path? To them, their incidents in life shape themselves to divert them from death and to engraft the habit of “the path”. Such incidents are inconvenient to those who live in death and hence they cause sorrow and pain. When a person is discussing philosophy, relaxed in an armchair, if the wife reminds him that it is time to get up, take his bath and eat, it is really inconvenient to him. To a person who is deeply tracked in his routine, it is almost death to him if he were asked to vacate the room for a while with all his belongings when it is time to get the room white washed and coloured better. It appears to him that all the ii PREFACE work of the day is being disturbed. Such an attitude is real death. Instead, if he understands the advantage of the disturbance enough to make the body co-operate, then he knows that it is not an inconvenience and that it is a change for the better. Such are the changes that occur in the name of the shifts of residence, transfer of countries, change of jobs, loss in business, the inevitability to stop a piece of work, to start something different. In fact, the ravages of age and the stage of life are to be understood in the same way. The purpose served by these incidents cannot be known to those who understand these incidents as inconveniences, difficulties and losses. Not knowing the purpose, they drift into the abyss of death by living for the routine. Those who know the purpose can know the immortality of man. Such beings live beyond time. To those who live in death, their routine forms their habit. To those who live beyond time, the Yogic path forms their habit. Not caring for the sorrow of the one and the happiness of the other is the third way of living. It is called liberation. To practice this, there is only one way and that is to meditate upon the one existence in all. Practice needs all those of the three parts as something inevitable. One who knows the inevitability can understand the strength iii PREFACE and the real significance of habit. Further, he knows how to make a better use of habit. At this stage, his habit makes the arrangements of his span and brings immortality to him. To bring this subtle concept to life is one of the aspects of this book. To transmit this concept in a shapely manner, the author has created the character of “The Angel of Habit” as the servant of “The Lord.” It is needless to affirm that the span of Lord Krishna was utilised to exemplify this aspect. The Angel of Habit appears directly in the first chapter only. In the following chapters, he works as his presence in others according to the awareness of each of them. Hence, he is not found directly. The purpose of the extraordinary incidents in life is to protect the mind away from the environmental tangle. The most impressive of all the extraordinary incidents of life is the dropping of the physical body. It works continuously upon the mind of everyone. Even the laziest mind cannot escape from its impact. The routine minds call it death. They do not see the real death which they experience in their incidents. They notice the physical disintegration as death. To them, death is an incident. In fact, it is not. People lead life as an anticipation of death through decades and try to adjust their duties by preponing them and making them iv PREFACE death-conditioned. Those who know the truth can experience the change in their duties as happiness. Those who surpass these two paths know that they are happiness themselves and begin to live as their presence in others, in the shape of their good work. Their birth, nature, ability and strength befit their work. They do not create a nature of their own and do not get entangled in it. Those who have such a birth and such a span are called the incarnations of the Lord. Their birth is anticipated by their predecessors, strong and weak, “May such a one come down to earth and save us”, they feel. Then it is time for the Lord to come down in incarnation. The most accomplished of all such incarnations is Lord Krishna. Even the accomplishment is felt by others whereas they themselves have no such feeling. As far as the human knowledge goes, such an incarnation is Lord Krishna. (If anyone assures, “I am also one such”, we are ready to follow him.) This book explains how it is. It makes us understand how even the dropping of the physical sheath of such a one was utilised for the purification and the betterment of the rest. There are millions of people who believe that the physical dropping is their death. To save such ones, you find the clue in this book. It does not mean that this book is so great. It only v PREFACE means that the truth imbibed in this book is second to none. How the consciousness of the routine man, the scholar, the Yogi and the Seer is being moulded different from one another according to the concept of physical death has been explained in this book. If a person understands the physical droppage as a natural transformation that leads to a better span, aided by nature, how does he experience it? How does a person having mastery over nature utilise this incident better? When he knows that better utility is not for himself or any one individual, what is the manner in which he makes his life better utilised? This book contains the answer. Sources of information The statistical data about the birth, physical droppage and the incidents in-between have been taken from four scriptures: (1) The Mahabharatha, (2) the Bhagavathapurana, (3), the Harivamsa (4), the Vishnupurana. They conclude as follows: (1) Lord Krishna was born in the month of July, 3228 B.C. midnight zero time between the 19th and the 20th. (2) The droppage of his physical sheath was during the morning hours of 18th Feb., 3102 B.C. vi PREFACE (3) The Mahabharata war was fought in 3139 B.C. (4) Yudhisthira was made emperor immediately after the war. It was in the 90th year of the Lord. Since then, Yudhisthira ruled for 36 years. Yudhisthira’s reign ended with the physical passage of the Lord. Hence, Lord Krishna was 126 years when he left his physical body. (5) Lord Krishna lived as the very expression of the Wisdom of the Eternal Law that ruled the world from India. Yudhisthira followed his footsteps as he ruled the holy land. To a great extent, Yudhisthira’s brother Arjuna also lived up to the ideal. Vedavyasa was a contemporary of the Lord who could reveal the Lord’s plan to the world. Sanaka, Sanandana and Narada among the ageless masters could prepare the ground for the Lord’s descent and work. Maitreya, his disciple Maru (Master Morya), another disciple Devapi (Master Kuthumi) and their disciple, Jwalakula (Master Djwhalkhul) could prepare a new group of world servers to spread the ageless wisdom of the Lord. All of them had the comprehension of the descent of the World Teacher as Lord Krishna. There was also vii PREFACE another group of people (the Atlantean souls) who tried for power and self-aggrandizement and created groupism and party politics.
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