They know
Buddha directly,
they know the esoteric adepts directly.
They are
so experienced
that they can remain
in the masses and can continue
the work with the group.
But they will not be its members.
When someone of
this group
is not born on this earth,
when
he is without a physical body,
if he remains in a non-body existence, he still
continues to
work.
There are so
many adepts who are not in this physical body
who go on working.
Theosophists call them masters -- such as Master Koot Humi. These are
fictitious names, but
they refer
to a particular personality, an individuality. They are fictitious
names, but they
refer to
a particular unembodied soul which is helping.
This Master K.-H., one of the most
created the
whole movement of theosophy.
They were trying to
create a situation in which Buddha's
coming incarnation could be possible, because Buddha had said that after
twenty-five
centuries he would again
be born and his name would be Maitreya. And an enlightened
person like
Gautam Buddha is capable of knowing
about who is going to be enlightened
twenty-five centuries later. So Buddha predicted, and for this happening Ashoka's circle of
nine has
been working for centuries. Now the time is near, so the theosophy
movement was
just a preparation.
It failed, the experiment
failed. They experimented
with three or four people to be made
vehicles for
Maitreya to descend, but the experiment failed. Something or other missed.
Sometimes the thing
was just on the brim of success, and something happened. Krishnamurti
was ready,
completely ready,
to be made a vehicle. Everything was
ready. He came on the
pulpit to surrender
himself and to become so empty that Maitreya could come in. But at the
last moment
he denied surrender. No one
around him could think
that this was going to
happen. Not even
a hint was given that Krishnamurti, in the last step, would fail and come
back.
And that is
why, after that phenomenon, after tha
t happening of coming back, for his
whole life,
continuously
for forty years, he has been
emphasizing individuality, "Be an
individual!"
This has a
meaning. The whole
preparation was to lose one's individuality, otherwise one
cannot become
a vehicle: "Be as if you are not! Surrender totally to forces beyond you." He
denied surrender just on the brink of jumping. Everything was ready. One step and Maitreya
would have been in the world.
But the last step could not be taken. He came back. He said, "I am myself." That is why
his whole philosophy became, "Do not surrender, do not follow, do not believe, do not be a
disciple." The whole thing is just an outcome; it is just rationalization and consolation.
He has been
working for
forty years continuously
out of that step that could not
be taken.
Still he is
not out of it. The repentance
is there, the would is there. He could not surrender at
the last moment. So theosophy failed with Krishnamurti and became a dead movement,
because the
movement existed only
for the materialization of this happening. It became
meaningless. The house
had been built, but the master never came to reside in it. So after
Krishnamurti's denial
to be a vehicle for Maitreya, theosophy became meaningless. It still
continues, just like a hangover, but nothing substantial exists now.
This whole movement
was created by the nine adepts of Ashoka. They are still working.
In so many ways,
they go on working. And there
is a history behind our so-called history of
which you
will not even
be able to conceive. History has a deeper base. The periphery which
we know as
history is not of real events. Behind out so-called history continues another, a
deeper one, about which we know nothing.
For example, we all
have heard about Hitler, his fascism, his whole movement, his
desperate
efforts to do something. But
no one knows that
there is something behind which is
hidden. Hitler
was just a vehicle for other forces. Now there are glimpses that he was not the
real actor in the drama. He was just a means, he was used. Someone else was
behind him,
some other forces
were working. For example, the choice of the swastika, the symbol of
Adolf Hitler's party -- this is the oldest, the most ancient symbol of a
particular school of
adepts.
In India, one of the most ancient groups
is that of the Jains. The swastika is their symbol,
but not exactly
as it was with Hitler. Hitler's swastika design was in reverse. The Jain's
swastika is clockwise; Hitler's is anticlockwise. This anticlockwise swastika is a destructive
symbol. They searched for three years continuously to choose a symbol, because a symbol is
not just a symbol.
If you can take a
symbol from a deeper tradition, then the symbol becomes
a link. So persons
were sent to Tibet
to discover one of the most ancient symbols of the
Aryan race, because
with that symbol much that is hidden can be contacted.
The swastika
was chosen, but in reverse. And the person who found the symbol,
Hessenhoff, convinced Adolf Hitler that the symbol should be in reverse order.
He was one
of the persons
who was in contact with many esoteric groups, but he was confused. He was
searching for two things: firstly, for a symbol which was very ancient;
secondly, for a symbol
which could
also be made new. Because of this, the swastika was chosen and was made in
reverse order. It had never
existed in this way before, but due to this, events took altogether a
new shape.
And with this
reverse symbol it was known all over the world to those who were in
contact with
any esoteric knowledge that Hitler was going to destroy himself. He was going
to become mad; he would be
in contact with suicidal forces.
The entire concept
of Hitler's philosophy was given by some hidden schools. They used
him just as Krishnamurti
was going to be used by the theosophists and the hidden groups.
Hitler
continued
winning up to a
certain extent, up to a certain moment. He was just winning:
there was
no defeat.
The thing was phenomenal, he could just win anything, it looked as if he
was undefeatable. But beyond a certain time, everything begins to go in reverse. Why did this
happen?
Forces which were
against Nazism defeated Hitler, but that is not the real history. That
was just an outward phenomenon. Hitler was used by an esoteric group. This was
one of the
most desperate efforts, because this esoteric group was working for centuries but could not
help humanity
as they desired to help. This was a desperate effort to help humanity before
humanity destroys
itself on this earth. So they had tried through saints, through persons who
were powerless, who were poor in spirit. They tried through Adolf Hitler
to win the whole
world before it is destroyed and to give a certain teaching to humanity.
But just
like Krishnamurti became independent at the last moment, Hitler also became
independent. He began
to go down. This is the miracle of war history. It had never happened
before. Hitler
would not take the
advice of any general. He would move or attack, but no
advice would be
taken from any general. And even against the advice of all his trained
persons, he
would act a
nd move as he liked, and still he would win. There were absurd
moves, nonsensical
moves. No one who
knows anything
about war would have taken those
moves. But Hitler
would take them
and he won for three years.
Everyone who was around him knew
that he was just a vehicle of some greater force.
This was not explainable. And whenever he would order, he would not be in his conscious
mind. This is a new fact
which has become known now. Whenever he would order, he would
just be ecstatic.
His eyes would be closed, he would begin to tremble, he would perspire, and
then his voice
would change completely. Another voice would order. But the day he began to
fall, his own voice
began to order. From that point, from that moment, he was never in
ecstasy. Some contact which was working was lost.
Now those who study
Adolf Hitler and his life all feel that the phenomenon was not
merely political.
The person himself was not just a political maniac, not just a mad politician,
because whatsoever he
did was absolutely nonpolitical -- his whole approach. And those who
had remained
with him felt
that he was a split personality. In his ordinary moments, he was
so ordinary
that you could not conceive of it. There was no magic; he was just ordinary. But
when he was taken over, possessed, he was quite an altogether different personality.
Who was behind this?
Some esoteric group was behind this, and that esoteric group was
trying something.
When Hitler became independent, he lost every power. In his last days, he
was just ordinary.
After this particular moment, when he lost contact, whatsoever he did went
against him. Before this, whatsoever he did was always in his favor.
The same group I have been talking to you about, the nine of Ashoka, was behind it. They
were trying
to capture the whole world. With man, it is always a possibility that if you begin
to work with
some force from behind, you yourself are not aware of it. If you succeed, then
you are not
aware that someone else
is succeeding. You succeeded, your ego is strengthened.
And there comes a moment
when your ego is so strengthened that you will not listen to any
force. This has happened so many times.
This esoteric group,
as I said to you, functions primarily as a continuity whenever there is
any need. In many
ways, they can help. It was not just a coincidence that Japan became
friendly to Germany. It was because of this group of nine people. This is the hidden fact. The
esoteric group
that was working behind Hitler was a Buddhist group, so a Buddhist country,
Japan, could be influenced to side with Hitler. And the whole East felt exhilarated when
Hitler was winning. The whole East was with Hitler inwardly. The group that was working
behind him was an Eastern group.
Nothing happens accidentally, everything has a causal link behind it. Whenever a teacher
like Buddha happens, the primary work of an esoteric group is to help by becoming a
mediator. Another work of
these esoteric groups is to preserve the knowledge once it is
obtained. Buddha
obtained something supreme, but who will preserve it? Preserving in books
is no preservation, because the knowledge is so living and books are so dead. Only words can
be preserved, not knowledge. Knowledge can be preserved only by living persons, not by
books, because books will have to be interpreted again, and who will interpret them?
They
will have to be decoded again, and who will decode them? And if someone is able to decode
them, to interpret them rightly, then that person can give you the message without the books.
And those who depend on books will not be able to interpret it rightly.
You cannot read any book which you have not known in some way. You only can read
"yourself" and nothing else. So if
you are reading Buddha's Dhammapada, it is not Buddha's
Dhammapada you are reading,
it is your Dhammapada. Now you will be a creator. Now your
depth will become the depth of Buddha's sayings. You cannot go beyond yourself; you
cannot have any glimpse beyond yourself.
So whenever knowledge is attained -- subtle, foundational, ultimate -- it cannot be
preserved
in books. Only ordinary knowledge can be preserved in books, which cannot be
misinterpreted, in which
any ordinary school training can train you. If you know the
language, you can know it, but supreme knowledge cannot be preserved in that way.
It can be
preserved only in
living persons, hence, esoteric groups. Then it is being transferred from one
living person to another.
And the transfer is not just like mechanical transfer. It is not
mechanical, it cannot be. It is just like an art.
I will tell
you a story,... a very esoteric one....
There is a Buddhist story of a master thief. He was so efficient, such a master, that he
could not be caught. And whenever he broke into a house, he would leave behind something
which would show that the master thief had entered. His art became so famous that if he
came to one house,
then others would be jealous, because the master thief only goes to the
house of someone
who is worthy of his skills.
Even the emperor
of the country wanted to meet him. Everything would be declared:
whenever he was to rob someone, there would be a rumor. The person would be notified
somehow that the master thief is coming soon: "You make any arrangements you would like
to make, and then,
on the particular day, the particular moment, there will be a robbery" --
and the thief would never be caught.
Then he became old and his son asked his father, "Now you are old, and I do not know
even the ABC's of your art. So let me be trained."