Using the Practical Power of Good Will
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
The Sanskrit word AUM, or OM, which evokes the Universe
The following
prayer is adapted from the invocation that opens the Katha Upanishad. It is especially dedicated to the groups of
students who search for the universal truth by expanding a feeling of good will
for one another and for all beings.
The phrase “Law of Universal Harmony” translates the
term “Brahma”, which is sometimes mistranslated as
“God”.
The impersonal concept of “Law of Harmony”
is more accurate and effective, because both terms “Brahma” and “God” are used
nowadays in ways that wrongly “personalize” the divine world.
Seeing cosmic intelligences as if they had
a personal nature makes true wisdom impossible and creates severe obstacles to
an understanding of the universe and a knowledge of oneself.
Brahma is no God. It is the Supreme Abstract Principle of
the Universe: something equivalent to the Chinese Tao, the implicit,
omnipresent Point of Equilibrium of the Universe.
We also could therefore replace the word
“Brahma” with the phrase “Point of Universal Equilibrium”; however, “Law of Universal Harmony” is acceptable.
The meditation is often made by teacher
and students together. [1] It should
be read after a few moments of silence:
Om…
May the Law of Universal Harmony protect
us.
May It place before us the fruits of
knowledge.
May we have the energy necessary to
achieve wisdom.
Let our common study reveal Truth.
May there be no ill-will among us.
Om, shanti. Peace. Om.
NOTE:
[1] See
the book “The Principal Upanishads”, edited with Introduction, Text,
Translation and Notes by S. Radhakrishnan, London: George Allen & Unwin
Ltd., New York: Humanities Press Inc., 1974, 958 pp., especially p. 594, first
page of the Katha Upanishad.
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On 14 September 2016, after examining the
state of the esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to found the
Independent Lodge of Theosophists.
Two of the priorities adopted by the ILT
are learning from the past and building a better future.
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