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CHAPTER 16. ATHEISM, THEISM AND REALITY
make birth inseparable from death. It is such a simple arithmetic. But one can argue that you cannot
say Arvind is wrong as long as he is alive.
But I can say without waiting for his death. These laws of life are so simple, clear and self-evident,
that Arvind’s imaginations, his speculations, cannot make a difference for them. The irony is now he
is dead; there is no way to argue with him.
And you say that Pondicherry’s work in this regard will be judged by the coming generations. But
what will happen to those of the present generation who are engaged in this act of crass stupidity at
Pondicherry? Should we allow them to make fools of themselves in the meantime? Granted that the
future generations will judge, but should we allow the pre sent generations to perish? No, it cannot
be left to the future. All those who are chasing this mirage at Pondicherry are very good people; they
have to be cared for. And so we have to warn them against their folly and ask them to reconsider
what they are doing. God never descends to us; we have to ascend to God. It is different; when one
reaches him he has the feel ing that God has descended on him. But this feeling is different from
Arvind’s theory.
There is a question about Alice Bailey, who claims that some Master K. has been sending messages
to her from Tibetan mountains. This is quite possible, and Alice Bailey may be right.
In fact, there are bodiless souls in the universe who are very compassionate and loving to us and
who try to help us even from their ethereal existence. And they do send messages if they come
across some suitable medium.
Alice Bailey is not the first person on this earth to have received such messages. Many people like
Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Colonel Olcott and Leadbeater have worked as mediums for such
bodiless souls in the past. And by contacting such souls who have attained higher states of spiritual
growth many things can be known and communicated.
The Theosophists carried out a great experiment of this kind in relation to J. Krishnamurti.
Many efforts were made to put Krishnamurti in contact with souls in search of right mediums.
Krishnamurti’s earliest books, AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER and LIFE OF ALCYONE belong
to the period when he was in contact with Tibetan Masters. That is why Krishnamurti disowns
their authorship. He did not write them in his conscious state; they were really communicated to
him by Tibetan Masters. AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER is an extraordinary book, but it is not
written by Krishnamurti he was only a medium who received it in the form of messages, Alice Bailey
claims to be such a medium who receives messages from bodiless souls. Western psychologists
will not accept Bailey’s claim, because they have no way to verify it. Western psychology has
absolutely no knowledge of anything beyond the life available to us on this planet. When I say
western psychology, I mean the conventional psychology being taught at Oxford, Cambridge and
Harvard, not the parapsychological sciences that have been developing in the West for some time.
Conventional psychology is not at all aware that man can live in a bodiless state, and that bodiless
souls can communicate with us. But such souls have always existed and they do communicate with
us.
There is an episode in Mahavira’s life: Mahavira is standing on the outskirts of a forest, alone and
silent. A cowherd comes to him and asks him to take care of his cows for a while, because he has
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