PARAMA SHANTHI
I spoke to you before of Shanthi and Prashanthi. I informed
you that one relates to the peace of the outer and one relates to the peace of
the inner. They are attainable through such virtues as obedience to the laws of
nature, serving the fellow beings, abstaining from irregular speech, ensuring
an active day without excessive waste of time and so on. From Shanthi one needs
to enter into Prashanthi. Prashanthi is in the inner chambers relating to you.
From Prashanthi one can attain through Tapas, Parama Shanthi. This Parama
Shanthi is called by Gautama, the Buddha as Nirvana.
Parama Shanthi or Nirvana means becoming one with the One
Existence and not feeling the individual self. It is like the wave merging into
the ocean. Only the oceanic existence prevails. Thus the steps to Nirvana can
be seen as Shanthi, Prashanthi, Tapas, and Parama-Shanthi. Christ speaks of
this Nirvana when he says, “I and my Father in the Heaven are but one.”
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