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Semantics
Postulates are axioms (assumptions) specific to a particular Science. Common Notions are
axioms general to all Sciences. Propositions are statements demanding proof. Positions are
statements available to exposition. A Lemma is a Position necessary to the exposition of a
Position. A Porism is a Position which emerges from the exposition of a Position.
Postulates
1- Human Birth is the instrument for visualizing the Divine Base.
2- The unique and potent capacities of this instrument are ratiocination and intuition.
3-- Human Birth is the Duty to cognize the Truth.
4- Truth has no second.
5- Anything can be defined, but nothing can be proven. The indefinable is the Seed, the
Germinant, of all definitions.
Common Notions
1- Western Civilization is a species of Vedic Culture, of Indian Spirituality.
2- India is the spiritual heart of this planet.
3- Vedic Culture created and sustains Semitic Religion, however denominated -- Judaism,
Christianity, Islam.
4- Semitic Religion has always been centered in the deserts, either actual or virtual, and
constituted as a phenomenon we may call Semitic Monasticism. Semitic Religion, in common
with every religion, is founded on strict renunciation of worldly attachments.
5- Semitic Monasticism parallels Veda-inspired Greek Monasticism, which produced Greek
Religion. Pythagoreans were a late flowering of Greek Monasticism who illustrate, to some
extent, the qualities of Semitic Monasticism, also.
6- Abraham was a Persian, meaning, he was a representative of Vedic Culture and specifically
of Zoroastrian Religion. Persian Language and Religion are species of Sanskrit and Vedas,
respectively.
7- Semitic Religion has always been monotheistic because Vedic Religion, in which it arose, is
monotheistic.
8- Judaism is based on the Sages of Zoroastrianism. Christianity is based on the Seers of
Buddhism. Islam is based on the Prophets of Christianity.
9- Jesus -- His original name was Isa -- spent His Career more in India than in Palestine.
10- All time-fields are concurrent.
Lemma 1 for Position 1
Truth is Supreme Reality.
Lemma 2 for Position 1
Truth is not asymptotic: It is not measured by a standard external to Itself.
Lemma 3 for Position 1
For the protection of the righteous, for the punishment of evil doers and for reestablishing
Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love, Supreme Reality wraps (envelopes) Itself in qualities,
incarnating from age to age.
Lemma 4 for Position 1
So wrapped in qualities, Supreme Reality becomes God. The wrapped is He: God, Cosmos,
Structure, the Base, Positive. The wrapping is She: Universe, Effort, Power, the Based,
Negative. He superimposes She on Himself in order to enact the Eternal Duet.
Lemma 5 for Position 1
Supreme Reality wraps (conceals) Itself in mixtures of three qualities (gunas):
| Thamas |
Rajas |
Sathwa |
| Torpor |
Excitement |
Equanimity |
| Inertia |
Activity |
Calm |
Lemma 6 for Position 1
The Form, the Mixture of Qualities, as which Supreme Reality concretizes Itself for the
benefit of the world is the Avatar, the Lord: He Who descends. The Transcendent God in
Habiliments come to accept the devotion of and to confer Grace upon all beings.
Lemma 7 for Position 1
The Avathar is ever-present in India: The Lord is always residing in Bharat ("The Land with
Attachment to God").
Lemma 8 for Position 1
The great deeds and ideas we admire are inseparable from those who put them into practice.
Lemma 9 for Position 1
The idea of an Avathar is a glorious deception.
Lemma 10 for Position 1
Supreme Reality is without qualities, without nature.
P O S I T I O N # 0 1
Revelation is Truth presented in and for itself by the penetrating purity of Sages.
Porism 1 for Position 1
The following are correlates of the three qualities (gunas) in which Supreme Reality wraps
Itself in order to become God:
| I am in the Light. |
The Light is in me. |
I am the Light. |
| Brahma |
Siva |
Vishnu |
| Dualism |
Qualified Non-Dualism |
Non-Dualism |
| Destruction |
Creation |
Preservation |
| I am the Messenger of God. |
I am the Son of God. |
I and my Father are One. |
| Christ |
Father |
Holy Spirit |
| Waking State |
Dream State |
Deep Sleep State |
| Elemental Principles |
Inner Principle of Duality |
Point Limit |
| Self-Confidence |
Self-Satisfaction |
Self-Sacrifice |
| No know. |
Know no. |
No no. |
| Body |
Mind |
Spirit |
| Unconscious |
Conscious |
Conscience |
| Homoiousias |
Homoousias |
Ousias |
| I am a person. |
I am an extension of Divinity. |
I am Brahman. |
| Karma Yoga |
Bhakthi Yoga |
Jnana Yoga |
| Works |
Devotion |
Wisdom |
| Christ |
Father |
Holy Spirit |
| Laity |
Clergy |
Religious |
| Worship |
Education |
Service |
| Consummation |
Creation |
Preservation |
| Parvathi |
Saraswathi |
Lakshmi |
| Shristi |
Sthithi |
Laya |
| Emergence |
Sustenance |
Mergence |
| DaSoHam |
SoHam |
(A)Ham |
| Source |
Stream |
Ocean |
| Gross |
Subtle |
Causal |
| Husk |
Shell |
Kernel |
| Thought |
Word |
Deed |
| Earth |
Sky |
Ego
(with respect to Vamana Avathar) |
| Take one step toward Swami. |
Swami takes ten steps toward you. |
No need for any more steps. |
Porism 2 for Position 1
Supreme Reality is stateless, quality-less, category-less, nameless, formless and not able to be
described or understood.
P O S I T I O N # 0 2
A thing and its nature is one and the same.
Lemma 1 for POSITION 3
Strength is calmness of mind.
Lemma 2 for POSITION 3
Consciousness is Truth. Truth is Bliss. Supreme Reality is Truth-Consciousness-Bliss: Sath-Chith-Ananda.
P O S I T I O N # 0 3
Faith is the strength which binds the consciousness to the Guru, to the Teacher.
P O S I T I O N # 0 4
Each individual has direct experience of the Avathar as one or more of
four personalities: Mother, Father, Visitor, Guru.
P O S I T I O N # 0 5
Everything, latent and patent, is a decision of the Avathar.
P O S I T I O N # 0 6
Ego is the Divine Consort, the Inseparable Other, the Universe, mistaken
for independent by
the intellect, which asserts, I am this body.
P O S I T I O N # 0 7
Evil is an absence of Good. Good is an absence of Wisdom.
Wisdom is an absence of God.
P O S I T I O N # 0 8
There are two types of knowledge, both illusion.
One, called vidyamaya, clarifies the
intellect,
thereby contributing to the revelation of Truth.
The other, called avidyamaya,
tarnishes the intellect,
thereby preventing the revelation of Truth.
P O S I T I O N # 0 9
The faculties and circumstances of this birth are impressions
collected from deeds deliberately
done in the previous birth.
P O S I T I O N # 1 0
Grace is a decision of the Avathar to remove
one or more obstacles in the path of one or more
aspirants.
Porism 1 for Position 10
When an obstacle is removed from the path of one aspirant, all beings benefit.
P O S I T I O N # 1 1
Salvation is Grace, earned and showered.
P O S I T I O N # 1 2
Unity, in the nature of things, has to be indicated by means of diversity.
Unity cannot be
gainsaid and diversity cannot be unified, on the one hand,
or ignored, on the other.
Diversity
has to be harmonized by the practice of forbearance.
This makes Unity appear, quite
automatically.
P O S I T I O N # 1 3
There is no salvation outside the orthodox tradition.
P O S I T I O N # 1 4
The world is the realm of flux, the domain of the ever-changing, the ever-relative.
Lemma 1 for Position 15
Truth is the coincidence of thought, word and deed -- mind, tongue and hand.
Lemma 2 for Position 15
Righteousness is the strength which keeps the consciousness bound to Truth, which integrates
thought, word and deed.
Lemma 3 for Position 15
Peace is cessation of the mind's raving, its leaping about as a mad monkey, its agitations.
Lemma 4 for Position 15
Love is concentration on correcting our own faults and blindness to whether others have faults
or not.
P O S I T I O N # 1 5
The world is carried upon four Pillars: Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love.
Lemma 1 for Position 16
Discrimination is imbibing the permanent while leaving the transitory, relishing the eternal
while shunning the ephemeral.
Lemma 2 for Position 16
Detachment is the mind immersed in the thought of God.
P O S I T I O N # 1 6
The Christian religion flourishes where its representatives
are models of discrimination and
detachment.
P O S I T I O N # 1 7
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P O S I T I O N # 1 8
Mathematics is the semantics, not the syntax, of phenomena.
P O S I T I O N # 1 9
The Lord does not order and does not approve
that the body, mind or spirit of any being be
injured for the worship of Him.
P O S I T I O N # 2 0
Spiritual Practice (Piety, sadhana) is the discipline of limiting
desire and cultivating resignation.
Porism 1 for Position 20
The end of Spiritual Practice is a clarified intellect, subtle and straight.
Porism 2 for Position 20
The success of a life of Piety is measured by the depth of penance at the moment of death.
P O S I T I O N # 2 1
Christian Religion is the Piety, crucifixion of the ego.
Porism 1 for Position 21
All Teachers, teachings, symbols, rituals and customs associated with Christian Religion
subserve this activity.
P O S I T I O N # 2 2
The power-charge, the live battery of culture is the hermitage, the monastery.
P O S I T I O N # 2 3
Sages reside in hermitages and found religions.
P O S I T I O N # 2 4
Sages have, to varying degrees, the qualities of foreknowledge,
self-knowledge, and potency of
will.
P O S I T I O N # 2 5
If at all, Sages reveal their plans and knowledge
after events they intend to develop occur.
Often, Sages leave the stage without revealing their activities
or the meaning of them -- or even their presence.
Porism 1 for Position 25
Sages communicate in deeds, and these are apparent to few.
Porism 2 for Position 25
Sages do not preach. Their life is their message.
Lemma 1 for Position 26
A Family Preceptor (Guru) is God for the family.
P O S I T I O N # 2 6
Sages founded Semitic Religion from their hermitages,
using heads of families (Patriarchs) to
propagate it.
Porism 1 for Position 26
The Patriarchs were tribal chiefs. The Sages were Family Preceptors.
Porism 2 for Position 26
The names of some gurus are in the text as Names of God: Elohim, El Elyon, El Shaddai,
Yahweh, Fear of Isaac, etc.
P O S I T I O N # 2 7
Sages of the Patriarchal and later periods had awareness of an incarnation
of a Great One
preparing among the families they were fostering.
P O S I T I O N # 2 8
The incarnation of a Great One (Messiah) foreseen by Sages was Isa, later called Jesus and
Christ.
P O S I T I O N # 2 9
Isa became aware that He was the Messiah during His 25th year, while He was in Tibet.
P O S I T I O N # 3 0
At first Isa declared, 'I am the Messenger of God.'
Later, He declared, 'I am the Son of
God.'
Finally, He declared, 'I and My Father are One.'
Porism 1 for Position 30
These declarations illustrate the dualistic (thamasic), the qualified non-dualistic (rajasic) and
the non-dualistic (sathwic) experiences, respectively.
P O S I T I O N # 3 1
Isa had powers associated with Divinity.
P O S I T I O N # 3 2
When He declared that wine in a certain cup is His Blood,
He means that everything having
blood is He.
P O S I T I O N # 3 3
The jealousy of religious and monastic officials
produced the death of Isa by crucifixion.
P O S I T I O N # 3 4
After His resurrection from death,
Isa returned to India and traveled as far as Malaysia.
Porism 1 for Position 34
He threw off the mortal frame at Srinagar, Kashmir.
P O S I T I O N # 3 5
When He was emerging in Supreme Reality,
Isa said to St. John and other followers,
'He Who
sent Me will come again,' and He pointed to a lamb.
A lamb says, 'Ba-Ba.' Isa continued,
'He will have a crown of hair and wear a blood-red robe.'
P O S I T I O N # 3 6
The Parousia is of the Pleroma, the Avathar, Who has taken Human Birth
with the Name and
Form of Swami Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.
Porism 1 for Position 36
Isa repeated is Sai.
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