Course V - Teaching 12: Tibetan Disciples

In Tibet there is an extraordinary mystique related to death and mystical death, and the Sons need to know it. In old days, the mystique of death was an ordinary thing. Even in the Christian Middle Ages, death and acts tending to remember it were of extraordinary value. Little by little, this custom disappeared, but is preserved in Tibet.
In Tibet, those who follow the mystique of cheut try to achieve the true state of surrender for the salvation of Humanity. First, the aspirants seek a guru for their instruction; he is a master who realized the state of peace beyond death. This master guides them after two or three years of personal service.
During his stay in the Seminary, a Seminarian must learn everything useful for the Community, even the most disgusting and disagreeable. First of all, Gandhi instructed Slade, his English disciple, to clean bathrooms. He said: “There you will learn more than anything that I may teach you”. In Tibet, they do the same: They prepare fire and wash clothes; their instructions begin after this trial.
Those who follow the path of cheut are pilgrims. They visit one hundred eight cemeteries before their admission, and cannot receive the teaching of the master until their meditation on all those places. This means that they must travel huge distances through mountains and plateaus at a height of four to five thousand meters. By night, they meditate in cemeteries, and announce their presence with a little bell not to be disturbed.
After this pilgrimage, the master imparts them the first teaching: on their responsibility before men for all that they acquired. It is time to do something, and they need surrender.
The first step is self-offering.
Tibetans do all in accordance with rhythm, movements and external acts. So, it is impressive to see them during their meditations. It is likely that a low psychism of some kind exists in those who are unable to understand the value of these exercises and to follow this path. What is important –and some few follow this path– is the internal sense of offering. Their prayers are like those of mystics, but in their prayers they utter holy cries, calling all that is evil in the world. This is low mystique. They do not know that the power is to acquire power and not to be afraid. People of the world speak about “evil vibrations” or “damage”, but these only touch you when you are totally afraid and misguided; no bad current can touch you if you are in peace.
Their mystique is to take fear away. The offering says: “Through numberless lives, my selfishness makes me live by everybody; I committed any crime and sin; I drank the blood of thousands and thousands being; inconsiderately, I trod down and harmed, and had defects and vices of every kind. It is time to pay for my debts” Their invocation is very dramatic while playing a little drum. It is a very primitive mystique; you can find great things just if your search is in depth.
“Come, oh evil and harmful entities! Do not touch beings of the world! Do not make men suffer! Come to me and I will pay my debt; eat my flesh, open my entrails and veins; cut my head and I will be food for every wild beast; I offer myself to death and sacrifice. I am the victim of Humanity”.
They repeat it and at the end they truly sense death. Commonly, a suggestion may make fell pain. However divine is the stigmatization of saints, always there is a psychosis of some kind: They see the image of the crucified Christ, experience a psychosomatic shock and have wounds of the Passion.
Chelas even feel deadly pains: their entrails are cut, and they are torn to pieces. Most of them fall ill; just the strongest can reach a higher state.
Then they receive the second teaching: Now they are dead. This is like certain mystical parts of Cafh, but just externally, because this not suitable both to Sons or Humanity. Mystical death comes after the first stage, and this is important. Now, personality is dead; self-offering is renunciation. They offered their lives; nothing remains: they are dead.
Then their guide teaches them that all was an illusion produced by their fantasy; all their doings are pure illusion, and all worldly things are illusion. “Your meditation was death, but now you know death; you experienced all and all was illusion. Now you know what death is: death is neither decapitation nor an amputated arm; death is to desire nothing, renouncing to all and entirely surrendering to the Divine Will”.
They call “Red Feast” to this process to reach the nothing.
Souls do not possess anything else. They form an image like that of Saint Paul of the Cross: they are a little heap of ash, and nothing remains. Then the disciple has to meditate and say: “I am simply ash; nothing remains; I have no past or future karma. I am ash dispersed by the wind everywhere. Amid dunes, I am nothing. Now I am united with God because nothing remains of my personality”.
Then they experience the void of the nothing. Now it is not a psychic state. It is likely that their Red Feast is to dispose of those who are not strong enough. A Tibetan believes that whoever is not called to the spiritual life lacks importance; those who triumph are important. This idea is entirely wrong and different from the true idea of universal charity.
The third teaching is the “White Feast”, the true realization. The Master calls the disciple and imparts again the true teaching. He says: “You said: I am nothing. You are nothing to you and all to God (they say Eternity). Also, how can you believe that you may die, make an offering and become the nothing. Still you carry a seed of huge pride because you believe that you can undo, and here is a second game of your illusion, of your mind. In fact, you are thinking of something if you believe that you are the nothing. The true teaching is: You are like Eternity, even you are beyond death and the nothing. You are an expression of God”. And this way they raise the disciple toward the Divinity, from human values to spiritual values. Very few attain this.
Then, a mystic, a master makes fun of the first disciple that begins or of one that visits cemeteries or even says that he is nothing: the disciple becomes a guru.
In every mystique there are similarities: offering, mystical death, transfiguration of God. Tibetans do not call Him God, but Great Vehicle. Buddhists are of the little vehicle: a man liberated from the idea of pain can reach liberation.
These mystiques are disappearing because man has attained certain spiritual height, and then he can dispose of these external ceremonies and psychic dangers to attain God.
The mystique of Cafh is valuable because the Son reaches God by love, not by fear, or action or effort of the mind made on energies of man. The mystique of love is higher than all mystiques. The Son surrenders directly, like a child, and many steps become unnecessary. His offering is death, but not as the result of long practice, but because he is fit to this mystique through an act of pure love that transforms him and makes him worthy of this offering, of this mystical death and of his realization of the Divine Mother.
The more you study mystiques, the more you will love mystique of Cafh. Ascetic Renunciation is ascetic exercise of surrender, observance and love, and at once the Divine Mother imparts a sense that is not psychic but entirely spiritual, internal and divine.
This will make the Sons appreciate much what they have been given; Humanity had to make his journey with many dogmas, ceremonies and rites, while in Cafh all is spontaneously imparted to the Sons because you do not run any risk when you possess the weapon of love from the beginning.
A Son does not come to mystique to ask anything; therefore, he does not run risks: he comes by love. All mystical systems are condensed in the system of Cafh. In it there is no personality or possession; you should not attain it through a possession whose uselessness you understand later. You come by love.
Consecrated souls: constantly remember that the Divine Mother granted to you the greatest treasure: Mystique of the Heart. From the first day, She has given you the Veil behind which is the truth. Only raise this Veil and see Her Face and the Truth. The Divine Mother lives eternally in Her Sons. She helps them in all their troubles and protects them permanently because She has accepted their lives. She watches over the sleep of their mystical death and in a divine way She revives them through a simple understanding of the life of grace and expansion of the eternity.