Delicious! Thanks, Bob.
--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "One who has set in his heart the concept of the transitoriness of
> the world through a process of reasoning and deep thought, is the
> person competent to win over the inner hexagon. Because, one who is
> convinced of the transitoriness of the entire world complex cannot be
> susceptible to greed or attachment to anything, for he knows that the
> object of his greed or attachment today will be something different
> tomorrow. Conscious of this disappointment, desires and attachments
> do not germinate in his mind. Nay, their very seed is destroyed. Then
> jealousy also is gone. He is no longer vain about his greatness,
> learning or wealth. When greed, attachment, vanity and jealousy
> disappear, there is no cause left for anger and anger goes away
> automatically. His desires recede and turn to God, with the result
> that now his worldly actions are dictated by a sense of duty rather
> than by passion. His behaviour automatically becomes proper and he
> lives in the world without being affected by it, just as a lotus leaf
> lives in water without getting wet. Such a man has no external
> enemies left, and his sameness rules over the whole Nature. None is
> capable of disturbing his kingdom of peace. It is such a person who
> is "samadarshii" (impartial, dispassionate) and a great victor, who
> can carry the world towards the goal of lasting peace and happiness.
>
> Therefore, a victory over the inner hexagon is the highest form of
> victory, and it is to achieving this great victory that man should
> direct his efforts.'
>
> *
> complete quote, from the Transcendental Meditation yahoo group:
> *
>
> It is said that in September 1945, when the Second World War was
> over, newspaper reporters wanted to know the reaction of
> Shankaracharya Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Shankaracharya of
> Jyotirmath (Guru Dev). Allegedly he gave them the following
> statement, parts of which match other published quotations of Guru
> Dev:-
>
> 'Real victory is that, after which there can never be a reverse.
> Nobody can call himself a victor forever merely by crushing an
> external foe, because such foes can spring up again. A real victory
> is achieved by bringing under control the internal foes. A check over
> the internal enemies is therefore the only way of conquering the
> external enemies forever, because we should bear in mind that it is
> our own internal enemies which create the external enemies.
>
> These inner enemies are ambition, anger, greed, false attachment,
> vanity and jealousy. It is this hexagon sitting inside us which makes
> a cat's paw (duping) of anything in the outer world in order to
> create enemies for us. Therefore if anybody wants to enjoy peace and
> happiness through victory over all enemies, then he should raid the
> very source of all physical enemies - the subtle hexagon living in
> us. Destruction of enemies by root is not possible without breaking
> up this hexagon (ambition, anger, greed, false attachment, vanity and
> jealousy). This is axiomatic.
>
> It is a fact established by practical experience that anyone who has
> conquered these subtle inner enemies, has broken up the central
> source of all external enemies. Therefore, all enemies are nipped in
> the bud. Then he has no enemies left to be defeated. It is only such
> a victor who can be called a real victor. Then the gates of true and
> lasting peace and happiness are opened for him.
>
> For a nation which desires to be completely free from enemies and to
> build a world of peace and happiness, it is necessary to have such
> men at the helm of its affairs who have conquered their inner
> hexagon. Otherwise they would destroy themselves along with many
> others. The history of the last several centuries shows that the
> rulers of powerful nations have given a bloodbath to the world under
> the influence of their hexagon. This is brutish. Those who carry the
> burden of guiding a nation should particularly act with insight. It
> is no greatness or humanism to be carried away by one's hexagon and
> spread a wave of suffering over the earth.
>
> After all, how long can we go on destroying the external enemies? As
> soon as we get rid of one, another one is ready to engage us. In this
> way we not only remain ourselves perpetually disturbed, but we also
> keep a cold war going on which threatens the peace and happiness of
> the whole of mankind all the time. This is certainly neither a sign
> of any victory nor of the suppression of any enemies. Hence it is
> most essential that people who rule nations should be those who have
> conquered their inner hexagon. It is these really victorious leaders
> who can successfully guide the societies, the nations and the world
> on to the path of lasting peace and happiness.
>
> It is not too difficult to win over the hexagon. But people take it
> to be impossible without giving thought. Most of them hold the belief
> that only a perfect saint who has renounced all worldly concerns can
> break up the inner hexagon. This belief is based on complete
> ignorance. A renouncer renounces the very cause of the hexagon, so in
> his case the question of conquering the hexagon does not arise at
> all. A victor over the hexagon is one who maintains his worldly
> attitudes but does not allow himself to be subordinated by them. Let
> the enemy have an occasion to strike, but let him find that he cannot
> do so because he finds you too strong for it. Only then can he be
> treated as defeated. Mere engagement in bona fide worldly activities
> is no hindrance in keeping the inner hexagon in a state of
> subjugation.
>
> For liquidisation of the subtle cell of inner enemies, it is not
> necessary to make warlike preparations over a number of years and
> then start a slaughter which keeps the world hanging between life and
> death. The only thing necessary for this is to become unbiased and to
> act with imagination.
>
> To be unbiased is to look correctly. A person who sees things as they
> are is called an unbiased person. There is no difference between what
> a thing is and how he sees it. His outlook is completely balanced.
> His appreciation of a thing is correct - in other words, he never
> misunderstands. If the world is unreal, he does not give it any
> reality. If Brahman is real, he takes it as real. When one is
> convinced of the unreality of the world and the perpetuity of the
> Atman, then he becomes unbiased. Then he sees things in their true
> shape.
>
> By saying that the world is unreal, we mean that it can exist as it
> looks only for the time being, and that it would look something
> different hereafter. Everybody is actually seeing that everything in
> the world perishes and that we shall have to miss it one day - the
> smallest and the biggest - all are destined to change. Everyone sees
> clearly how many go on being born and how many go on dying constantly
> before our eyes. This is what we call the transitoriness of the
> world. We see all this going on but we do not think over it.
>
> One who has set in his heart the concept of the transitoriness of the
> world through a process of reasoning and deep thought, is the person
> competent to win over the inner hexagon. Because, one who is
> convinced of the transitoriness of the entire world complex cannot be
> susceptible to greed or attachment to anything, for he knows that the
> object of his greed or attachment today will be something different
> tomorrow. Conscious of this disappointment, desires and attachments
> do not germinate in his mind. Nay, their very seed is destroyed. Then
> jealousy also is gone. He is no longer vain about his greatness,
> learning or wealth. When greed, attachment, vanity and jealousy
> disappear, there is no cause left for anger and anger goes away
> automatically. His desires recede and turn to God, with the result
> that now his worldly actions are dictated by a sense of duty rather
> than by passion. His behaviour automatically becomes proper and he
> lives in the world without being affected by it, just as a lotus leaf
> lives in water without getting wet. Such a man has no external
> enemies left, and his sameness rules over the whole Nature. None is
> capable of disturbing his kingdom of peace. It is such a person who
> is "samadarshii" (impartial, dispassionate) and a great victor, who
> can carry the world towards the goal of lasting peace and happiness.
>
> Therefore, a victory over the inner hexagon is the highest form of
> victory, and it is to achieving this great victory that man should
> direct his efforts.'
>
