The Work Of The ‘Divine Hierarchy’

Question::

How come Truth-realized Masters (called Sadgurus or Perfect Masters, who are five in number) control the universe and its affairs? What exactly is their work?
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How is “Truth-realized Master’s physical body’ different from the physical bodies of ordinary individuals? When does Masters attain/assume the ‘Universal Body’?
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What happens when the ‘mental eye’ is inverted?
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How can Perfect Masters control the “spiritual evolution” of each and every individual?
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What sort of “spiritual operation” does Masters perform to disentangle the mind from the ‘gross world’?
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Why Perfect Masters should have extreme “patience” and persistence?
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Why a Master has to suffer, even though He is immersed in Bliss Himself?
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Why Truth-realized Masters does not perform miracles always? For what purpose they do them when they do them?
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Why ‘God-realized beings’ RESPECT and OBSERVE the “Laws of God”, even though they are not bound by them?
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What is the “Law of God” or “Law of Truth” or “Law of Divine Love”?
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How come Perfect Masters are the custodians of the ‘execution of the Divine Plan’ on Earth?
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How does Divine-Will/God’s-Will execute in the physical world?
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How come “natural upheavals” and happenings in the history of humanity are related to “God’s will”?

Answer::

(Extracted from Meher Baba’s literature, which is a copyright of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust(©AMBPPCT), Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Bharat/India)

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The whole universe becomes the ‘body’ of the Truth-realized Master. Others who do not know his real seat of functioning, may falsely identify him with his ‘physical body’, which they see in front of them with physical eyes.
  This ‘physical body’ is only one among the innumerable bodies in which he knows himself as dwelling. His ‘link’ with this particular body is in no way greater than with other existent bodies in the universe. The Perfect Masters ‘live in all’ and ‘feel equally for all’. They can therefore co-ordinate all Divine Work of the Spiritual Hierarchy with ‘wisdom’ and ‘justice’.

It is important to understand how the “Universal Body” of the Masters stands in relation to other bodies.

The ‘gross body’ is a sort of reflection of the ‘subtle body’. It is the exact counterpart of the ‘subtle body’. Or we might say that the ‘subtle’ is a sort of gaseous impression of the “gross”. Such impression is, in a very fine form, in the ‘mental body’ or the ‘mind.

The ‘mental body’ is like a brilliant spark.

When the souls who have attained the supramental Truth COME BACK, they assume the ‘Universal Mind’, which has as its medium the ‘Universal Body’.

Krishna showed this ‘Universal Body’ to Arjuna.

The ‘Universal Body’, sometimes called Mahakarana Sharira, is thinner than every other thing. It includes and embraces all the existing bodies, and pervades the Universe.

The ‘Universal Body’ of the Master actually includes in fact ‘all worlds’ and the ‘whole creation’. They are all in Him. They are all within each soul; but each soul is not conscious of this because of “ignorance”. It is difficult to believe that huge mountains and forests and towns and even earths and worlds are WITHIN, but it is exactly so.
  The ‘physical eye’, which sees all these huge things, is small, yet, it sees them. It does not require huge eyes to see a huge mountain. The reason is that– though the eye is small, the “soul” that sees is greater and vaster than all the things which it sees. In fact, it is so great that it includes them all in itself. This does not become clear until the ‘inner mental eye’, which really sees through the ‘physical eyes’, is INVERTED.

• It is not the ‘physical eye’ that really sees. It is the ‘mental eye’ which sees through the ‘physical eye’.
• It is not the ‘physical ear’ which hears. It is the ‘mind’ which hears through the ‘ears’.     

This ‘mind’, which is most aptly linked to the ‘eye’– is ordinarily extrospective, looking outwards and getting BOUND UP with the things that it ‘sees’. But

when this ‘mental eye’ is INVERTED, the ‘universe’ disappears; and the ‘mind’ itself becomes the Truth.

If the “Truth-Mind” is again turned towards the ‘universe’, it knows itself as permeating and including within its ‘universal body’- the whole universe.

Through the ‘Universal Body’, the Truth-realized Master actually finds Himself in the ‘minds’ and the ‘bodies’ of everyone. It is no difficult task to raise the ‘greatest of sinners’ to the level of the ‘greatest of saints’.
  The person who plays with the kite and makes it fly freely in the skies, has in his hands the controlling end of the string. He can bring the kite down or allow it to soar as high as he pleases. Likewise, the Perfect Master is in possession of all the controls of the “spiritual evolution” of everyone.

Suppose it pleases the Truth-realized Master to raise an ordinary person to ‘complete consciousness’ of the first plane. All that he has to do is– to use the ‘infinite energy’ of the Universal Body and draw his SUBTLE TENDENCY towards the ‘first plane’.
  Such working upon a ‘mind’ which is entangled in the ‘gross world’ and freeing it from its cherished bonds, can in itself be no more pleasing than vivisection by a surgeon.

The surgeon removes an inflamed appendix by cutting its attachments to adjacent portions. The process in itself can hardly be a pleasure for him. But, he does his duty with extreme ‘patience’ and ‘persistence’ because– he knows that IT IS NECESSARY for the ‘physical well-being’ of the patient.

In the same way, the Master has to undertake the ‘spiritual operation’, when he uses his infinite skill, knowledge, power & patience DISENTANGLING a ‘soul’ from its enmeshments. He can do so only because he is aware that– what he does is for the real good and happiness of the soul on whom his grace has descended.

The ‘ascending soul’ may experience much ‘psychic agony’. The Master is in sympathy with him and also knows Himself as being in him; He cannot, therefore, Himself escape the suffering involved in the ascent of the aspiring soul.
  But He is, in all that He does, sustained by His own ‘infinite bliss of Truth-realization’. It cannot remain in abeyance even for a moment. What He uses is His infinite ‘knowledge’ and ‘power’ and ‘love’.
  He does not use His ‘bliss’ which is His sustaining reservoir to fall back upon in all endeavours fraught with acute ‘mental’ and ‘spiritual’ suffering.

Though the ‘Truth-realized Masters’ have at their disposal the ‘infinite powers’ of the Universal Body, they DO NOT ALWAYS PERFORM MIRACLES or take recourse to super-ordinary ways of action. The reason is that the law-makers cannot themselves be law-breakers.

God has ordained certain laws for the universe. They are followed by the sun, moon and stars and everything that breathes.

These laws are NOT BINDING for the God-realized ones. But they nevertheless RESPECT and OBSERVE these ‘God-ordained laws’, because they have become one with God.

In a sense, there is no such thing as a violation of any law. The so-called ‘miracles’ are performed by using the hitherto unknown ‘powers’ and ‘forces’ which operate according to their own laws.
  The Masters do often perform “miracles”. But they do so strictly for spiritual purposes. And while doing so, they do not throw off the “spiritual laws” of the universe. They are ABOVE all laws. But even their super-ordinary achievements are according to the eternal “Law of Truth”. 

The whole universe with all its laws is subject to the SUPREME “Law of Truth”. It is ever being administered impersonally as well as through the “spiritual Hierarchy”.

To the superficial observer, it may seem that there is NO “reign of Truth” in the universe. The truth does reign, and reigns UNCEASINGLY and UNFAILINGLY.

Even the insignificant business concerns and other private and public institutions have their laws and cannot function without laws. Much more so is it true of the universe. This vast universe, with all the multitudinous occurrences within it, is subject to some self-justifying law.

Sometimes, it does appear as if sincere toil is lost or the virtuous are condemned to suffering and the vicious are enthroned with power or endowed with success. But all this is either a fractional view of the realities or an illusion in the garb of ‘judgement’.

To one who can take a COMPLETE and UNCLOUDED VIEW of “events”, the inexorable reign of Truth in all happenings– great or small, individual or collective– is a clear and unchallengeable fact.

The reign of Truth may be described in different ways as– the ‘Law of God’ or the ‘Law of Justice’ or the ‘Law of Karma’.

It is the ‘Law of Cause and Effect’ or the ‘Law of Divine Love’, according to the angle of vision or the limiting perspective given by the particular standpoint of the intellect.

But the important fact is that– whatever may be the manner in which this ‘Law of Truth’ is apprehended by the intellect, it unchallengeably exists. It is a supreme and self-justifying power, that unfailingly and irresistibly reigns in the universe, and it has no exceptions.

All seers have announced the reign of this ‘Law of Truth’. It operates both ‘impersonally’ and through the conscious working of the Divine Hierarchy of Masters and their agents.

Though dwelling in the ‘universal mind’- with its seat as the ‘universal body’, the Truth-realized Masters do not neglect the co-ordinative and organized working required for the execution of the “Divine Plan”. Their plans for the world are made FAR IN ADVANCE of the times, sometimes centuries before the time when they are intended to be executed. They dwell in ‘eternity’; and they have in their view– the past, the present and the future. They are the custodians of God’s process of self-fulfillment– working itself out through the march of the variegated incidents in time.

The cooperative and organized working of the Perfect Masters expresses itself through the ‘functioning of the Spiritual Hierarchy’. The Masters, being one with the supreme Godhead, convey the Divine Will and Impulse to the advanced souls– ‘Maha Yogis’ or ‘Pirs’ of the mental world.
  The ‘advanced souls’ CATCH THE IMPULSE originating in the shoreless Truth, and pass it on from the “mental world” to those who control the ‘subtle world’.

In the ‘gross world’, it may manifest itself through many natural upheavals e.g.,

• earthquakes and volcanic eruptions,
• floods,
• changes in the structure of the ocean-bed.

It may also manifest itself through the upheavals in the life of mankind (e.g.,

• rise and downfall of empires,
• wars,
• epidemics,
• births,
• deaths,
• catastrophes

 and other major episodes in the history of humanity).

All “happenings” in the history of humanity are subject to the ‘Divine Plan’, as released and implemented by the Perfect Masters through their ‘Agents’ in the different worlds.

• The ‘causes’ of what becomes patently manifest in the ‘gross world’ are to be found in the ‘commotion the subtle world’.
• And the causes of the ‘commotion in the subtle world’ are to be found in the directives that obtain from the ‘mental world’.
• And the origin of the ‘directives of the mental world’ is seen as being none other than the ‘Will of God’, as released by the Masters who are consciously one with God.

Thus, the Masters are indirectly in charge of the ‘execution of the Divine Plan’. They make use of the infinite power and understanding to further that plan in all the three worlds. And

their working gets particularly accelerated and co-ordinated during the ‘Avataric Periods’, when the Avatar– as the ‘inspiring force of the Divine Hierarchy’– assumes the principal directive role in the DIVINE TASK of giving a “spiritual push” to humanity.