SOME INITIATED OF THE LAST CENTURY – by Huberto
Rohden
"Even if it is little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you do not live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too." Albert Schweitzer
"Even if it is little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you do not live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too." Albert Schweitzer
In the twentieth century lived two persons who entered the
cosmic consciousness: Albert Schweitzer and Mahatma Gandhi. Both put their human
egos in the service of his fellow men in order to accomplish their divine
Self.
Schweitzer age 21, a student at the University of Strasbourg
in Germany, heard the appeal of his cosmic Self, but only at age of 36 he could
start that straight path which led to his fulfilment in Christ.
A man of great intelligence and scholarship, graduated in
philosophy, theology and music, ordained minister of the Gospel, tried to hold
up spiritually amid the admiration and the apotheosis of his fellows.
He acknowledged however, that this comprehension and
admiration of that world were obstacles to his true self-realization. Thereupon,
he left Europe and the comfort of the civilized world and demanded to the
neediest of humankind in the jungles of Africa, where he worked for 52 years in
the midst of total incomprehension and in the absence of admirers in order to
perform his cosmic Self.
By the end of his long life, Schweitzer writes these words:
"There are no heroes of action; there are only heroes of renunciation and
suffering."
This single sentence is a summary of the whole life of this
man of unprecedented activity. For him the greatness and heroism does not
consist in what the man does in terms of its human action, but rather what he
resigns voluntarily and suffers. The ego deflation was the only greatness for
Schweitzer; to die voluntarily is the only way to live gloriously… giving up
idols of life, opens the way to realize the true ideal of existence.
Schweitzer could have served the “civilized” European
humankind, but chose to serve the lacking humankind in Africa, not because he
loved more black men than white men, but his service to humanity should be non
comprehend rather than being comprehended and admired. His supreme
self-realization was the goal of his life.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi
Gandhi was 21 years old and a law graduated when he returns to
India from London. In India, he begins his career as a lawyer in order to earn
money and fame. However, the divine providence wrote right on the crooked lines
of his human intentions. Instead, Gandhi was sent to South Africa in order to
collect a debt for a Hindu millionaire by good commission.
But there he was bombed by the divine grace and instead of a
few weeks he spend 20 years among the south Africans defending them against
exploitations and injustices of the powerful European Christians, English and
Dutch. During these long decades of suffering and humiliation, Gandhi did his
novitiate of spiritual initiation.
Unable to compete with the powerful European invaders, who had
in their favour politics, money, arms and Caucasians, Gandhi decided to forge a
weapon more powerful than all the weapons of the human ego - and that secret
weapon was his soul.
Through suffering and meditation, he intensified his soul.
Returning to India, he put in the service of emancipation of his country, the
powerful weapons of ahimsa (non-violence) and
satyagraha (attachment to the truth), weapons forged
of pure spirituality by his soul.
When Rabindranath Tagore met Gandhi returning from South
Africa, said: "Behold, a great soul (mahatma) in
beggar costumes." Gandhi instead of a millionaire, turned in a loincloth because
of his detachment of all things of the ego to realize his divine
Self.
From his 40 to 79 years of age, he lived in
Brahmacharya (sexual abstinence) to enhance the
mystics of his divine Self by renouncing to his erotic human ego. And at the end
of his life, he reached total consciousness against to be offended, not judging
and to forgive his enemies, because he does not took note of their
offenses.
The voluntary sexual abstinence and total ignorance of the
offenses are definitive evidence of spiritual initiation of a man who at first
thought, only carried the idols of his ego, ignoring his ideal divine Self. The
mystical experience overflows irresistibly in ethics experiences when man
reaches the zenith of his cosmic consciousness.
As Albert Schweitzer had not as a supreme ideal of his life to
heal the Africans, but his own Self-realization, similarly did not consider
Gandhi as its earthly mission to release the 500 million Hindus of slavery from
the English Empire, but to his own individual liberation from the tyranny of the
ego, a sign that he neither attended the National Declaration of Independence of
India, on the night of 14 to 15 August 1947.
Possibly Gandhi envisioned what would happen a few decades
after his death: India instead of nonviolence (ahimsa)
already has the atomic bomb, the greatest symbol of violence never contemplated
by the devilish intelligence of man.
The great initiated serves from their entire human
philanthropy to perform their divine mystics.
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