The Maitreya
Jan 20, 2012 14:56:53 GMT 9.5
Post by sekhmet on Jan 20, 2012 14:56:53 GMT 9.5
I was reading the issue of Psychology Today, and I came across this surprising statement in the ads section, under the headline "The Christ has returned!"
Underneath there followed a ploy to get me to buy a book, that proclaimed that 'the Maitreya is already among us"; what caught my attention, aside from the fact that I was surprised to see religious propaganda in a 'scientific" magazine was that The name of "the Christ" was being invoked alongside the name of a Buddhist (and by extension a Hindu) "messiah".
The ad proclaimed that 'the Maitreya "is the one expected by all major religions, although under different names" .
It also went on to proclaim that"with his group of enlightened spiritual teachers, known as the Masters of Wisdom, the Maitreya will inspire the most profound changes in history". and so forth.
But, what struck me about all this was that this is a virtually exact description of what took place in India in the mid-to-late 1800s. India underwent a spiritual death/rebirth in the time of Ramakrishna the like of which shook it down to its foundations. If anyone was 'the Maitreya', it was Ramakrishna.
His company was sought by some of the foremost religious thought leaders and learned Hindu pandits, and Ramakrishna told them, in his homely, down-to earth way (He was what we call here in North America a "country boy") that God was One but His Forms were Many, and no one should hate anyone else because they worshipped differently from oneself, because all religions were true and, followed faithfully, would lead one to the goal ["liberation"].
This was an extremely novel and revolutionary idea at the time, but it caught on like wildfire among the Anglo-Indians, who were anxious to bring India into the 20th Century,and Ramakrishna, the herald of the Aquarian Age, thus influenced India's inner spiritual heritage and thus indirectly brought his country into the Twentieth Century. That is a significant accomplishment by any standard.
This is all a matter of historical fact; the whole epic story of Ramakrishna and his remarkable wife, the "living image of the Black Virgin of Dakshineswar, Shri Sarada Devi, is enshrined in print under various personal accounts and in "The Gospel of Ramakrishna."
When I think about it, there is really no other place 'the Christ" (meaning it in the original Qabalistic sense of the"Magickal Image of the Child, the King, and the Sacrificed God") could have manifested, really; many people in rural India in the 1800s lived extremely holy lives, though nominally householders.
Ramakrishna's father was a holy man by any standard, and his mother was no less holy. Only people of such calibre would be worthy to undertake such a task as to birth and raise a Messiah!
Underneath there followed a ploy to get me to buy a book, that proclaimed that 'the Maitreya is already among us"; what caught my attention, aside from the fact that I was surprised to see religious propaganda in a 'scientific" magazine was that The name of "the Christ" was being invoked alongside the name of a Buddhist (and by extension a Hindu) "messiah".
The ad proclaimed that 'the Maitreya "is the one expected by all major religions, although under different names" .
It also went on to proclaim that"with his group of enlightened spiritual teachers, known as the Masters of Wisdom, the Maitreya will inspire the most profound changes in history". and so forth.
But, what struck me about all this was that this is a virtually exact description of what took place in India in the mid-to-late 1800s. India underwent a spiritual death/rebirth in the time of Ramakrishna the like of which shook it down to its foundations. If anyone was 'the Maitreya', it was Ramakrishna.
His company was sought by some of the foremost religious thought leaders and learned Hindu pandits, and Ramakrishna told them, in his homely, down-to earth way (He was what we call here in North America a "country boy") that God was One but His Forms were Many, and no one should hate anyone else because they worshipped differently from oneself, because all religions were true and, followed faithfully, would lead one to the goal ["liberation"].
This was an extremely novel and revolutionary idea at the time, but it caught on like wildfire among the Anglo-Indians, who were anxious to bring India into the 20th Century,and Ramakrishna, the herald of the Aquarian Age, thus influenced India's inner spiritual heritage and thus indirectly brought his country into the Twentieth Century. That is a significant accomplishment by any standard.
This is all a matter of historical fact; the whole epic story of Ramakrishna and his remarkable wife, the "living image of the Black Virgin of Dakshineswar, Shri Sarada Devi, is enshrined in print under various personal accounts and in "The Gospel of Ramakrishna."
When I think about it, there is really no other place 'the Christ" (meaning it in the original Qabalistic sense of the"Magickal Image of the Child, the King, and the Sacrificed God") could have manifested, really; many people in rural India in the 1800s lived extremely holy lives, though nominally householders.
Ramakrishna's father was a holy man by any standard, and his mother was no less holy. Only people of such calibre would be worthy to undertake such a task as to birth and raise a Messiah!