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	Mahatmas
		Mahatmas is Sanskrit for "Great Souls." While the term is popularly applied to people like Mohandas Gandhi, the term is widely used to refer to adepts or liberated souls.
		The word was popularized in theosophical literature in the late 19th century when Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, revealed that her teachers were adepts or Mahatmas who reside in Tibet.
		The Mahatmas were not disembodied beings, but people with flesh and blood, and who are involved in overseeing the growth of individuals and the development of civilizations.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Mahatmas.html (107 words)

	Mahatmas and Chelas - Chapter 1
		We may note that Dr. de Purucker calls the mahatmas "Masters of Life," for that is what a mahatma is. He is a graduate in nature's great university of evolutionary development with its immense ranges of knowledge -- knowledge founded upon experience and "self-directed evolution." Thus, the mahatma is the perfect flower of human evolution.
		For the mahatmas it is far different, although theosophy tells us that within all people lie sleeping organs of perception belonging to these unknown planes of their being.
		The mahatmas are men and women who have awakened and developed these sleeping faculties, and it is from their training of these faculties that they derive their transcendent powers.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/gdpmanu/mahat_ch/m_c-1.htm (1359 words)

	Mahatma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word, used in a technical sense, was popularised in theosophical literature in the late 19th century when Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, claimed that her teachers were adepts or Mahatmas who reside in Tibet.
		According to the Theosophical teachings, the Mahatmas are not disembodied beings, but highly evolved people involved in overseeing the spiritual growth of individuals and the development of civilisations.
		The replies and explanations given by the Mahatmas to the questions by Sinnett are embodied in their letters from 1880 to 1885, published in London in 1923 as The Mahatma Letters to A. Sinnett.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahatma (514 words)

	Self realization, Spiritual Retreat Model in USA
		The sessions was moderated by six mahatmas in 3 pairs and these three teams was given a whole day to lead satsang with the above aims and issues as the goal.
		Every mahatma was able to fully participate in atleast six hours of satsang each day and this included the host ladies who prepared the carefully plannned menu of food conducive to sasang attentiveness.
		Mahatmas of Dadashri in the US, Canada and The UK are a very select group who will indeed have to rise to the final
	www.dadashri.org /summary.html (726 words)

	ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT
		They claim also that the Mahatmas — or Rishees, as they sometimes call them — have preserved the knowledge of all natural laws for ages, not only by tradition among their disciples, but also by actual records and in libraries existing somewhere in the many underground temples and passages in India.
		The oft-repeated declaration that any born citizen may aspire to occupy the highest office in the gift of the nation is proof of this, and the Mahatmas who guard the truth through the ages while nations are decaying, assert that the reaction is sure to come in a relapse into the worst forms of anarchy.
		In the early days of the Theosophical Society the name Mahatma was not in use here, but the title then was "Brothers." This referred to the fact that they were a band of men who belonged to a brotherhood in the East.
	www.phx-ult-lodge.org /aechoes.htm (13593 words)

	The Masters of Wisdom - by E.Adams - year 1890
		We have also the evidence given by Sundook, a pedlar of Thibet, who, on being questioned by several gentlemen, said that there were men living in the mountains beyond Tchigatze and near the city of Lhassa, possessing extraordinary powers distinct from and far higher than the regular lamas of the country.
		Objection is often raised by critics against the idea that such exalted and wise Beings as the Mahatmas are connected with the Theosophical Society, on the ground that the actions of its Leaders do not seem to be guided by the highest wisdom, at all times, in the conduct of its affairs.
		We predict that, despite the present attitude of bigoted and prejudiced minds, and that of sundry self-appointed leaders of the unthinking multitude, before the next century passes the pre-eminence of the Old Wisdom Religion will be recognised, and the Sages of the Snowy Himavat receive their due from the truth-seekers of every clime.
	www.theosophical.ca /MastersOfWisdomEA.htm (8696 words)

	The theosophical mahatmas
		As far as astral visits by Mahatma M are concerned, for example, he says that, if genuine, such appearances might have been Ranbir Singh, because we don't know whether or not he was capable of such phenomena.
		The difference of style between the letters of HPB and the masters is very marked, though in cases where she acted as the direct instrument of transmission her mind may have coloured the phrasing.
		Since some of the mahatma letters were received when HPB was thousands of miles away, she obviously could not have been responsible for composing all of them.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/johnson.htm (11058 words)

	HALF-HOURS WITH FAMOUS MAHATMAS. No. 1
		During the summer of '07 I had little time to waste at number 60, and had almost forgotten about the Mahatma, who, so I had been told, had let England for America, when I received a card announcing his return, and asking me to be present at a general meeting.
		After business was over the Mahatma entered the room, all his sheep locking round him to seek the turnips of his wisdom.
		There were already about twenty sheepish-looking tigers present, and when the Mahatma entered the room, I sat down next to him; for, knowing, in case a scrimmage should occur, that a Hindoo cannot stomach a blow in the spleen, I thought it wisest to be within striking distance of him.
	www.the-equinox.org /vol1/no4/eqi04025.html (1504 words)

	Mahatmas and Chelas - Chapter 3
		These advanced souls, the mahatmas, became perfected human beings in former periods of evolution, for this Earth and everything connected with it is a reimbodiment of a former and less developed world.
		In the Mystery schools, first founded as described in past ages, the mahatmas in those early days taught their pupils the truths of the archaic wisdom-science called by such titles in history as the secret doctrine of the ages, the esoteric tradition, and other such designations, which we today know under the name of theosophy.
		The mahatmas we are now thinking about are the perfected human beings who link the mass of humankind with this Brotherhood of Compassion doing its beneficent work as the elder brothers and spiritual teachers of the human race.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/gdpmanu/mahat_ch/m_c-3.htm (2529 words)

	The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett - Contents
		Difficulties of the Mahatmas -- prejudice -- unwashed Christian Saints -- responsibility for Sinnett and Hume -- interference only by the Mahatmas -- policy of A.I. Society to be submitted to Chief.
		Attitude of Mahatmas to the aspirant -- marriage and Raja Yoga -- different ways of acquiring occult knowledge -- encouragement given to Sinnett -- "Universal Brotherhood" -- not an idle phrase -- the paramount claim of Humanity; only secure foundation for universal morality -- aspiration of the true Adept.
		What a Mahatma is -- not beyond human mistakes -- phenomena of thought transference and precipitations -- Akasic libraries -- the Kiddle case.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/drumandbass/315/ml-hp.htm (9598 words)

	"Can the Mahatmas Be Selfish?" by H. P. Blavatsky
		And since the MAHATMA is but an advanced occultist, who has so far controlled his lower "self" as to hold it more or less in complete subjection to the Cosmic impulse, it is in the nature of things impossible for him to act in any other but an unselfish manner.
		And for us who are yet struggling in the mire of the illusive senses to dictate what knowledge MAHATMAS shall impart to us and how they shall act, is like a street-boy presuming to teach science to Prof.
		Hence, the vigilant watch of the "Will" we have constantly to exercise to prevent our lower nature from coming up to the surface, which it does in our present undeveloped state; and thus extreme activity and not passivity is the essential condition with which the student has to commence.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/truth/tr-hpb.htm (936 words)

	The Mahatmas As Ideals And Facts -A Theosophical Article by William Q. Judge
		For a belief in Mahatmas -- whatever name you give the idea -- is a common property of the whole race, and all the efforts of all the men of empirical science and dogmatic religion can never kill out the soul's own memory of its past.
		Some years ago the Adepts wrote and said to H.P.B. and to several persons that more help could be given to the movement in America because the fact of their existence was not concealed from motives of either fear or doubt.
		Now as we are dealing with the mind and nature of man, we have to throw out the words which will arouse the ideas connected with the forces we desire to have employed.
	www.blavatsky.net /theosophy/judge/articles/mahatmas.htm (853 words)

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		The wisdom of the Mahatmas knows no boundaries; about thirty-five years after the publication of the Secret Doctrine, the new disciples of the White Brotherhood - the Roerich family - set about recording the new teaching, which continues to explain the main themes of Theosophy, but in a rather different, more practical manner.
		Mahatma M. transmitted the Agni Yoga teaching to Helena Ivanovna Roerich, who also had the gift of clairvoyance and (to an even greater extent) that of telepathy.
		The Mahatmas believe that the emergence of a new energy in the Earth’s aura will purge the planet of anti-evolutionary forces and bring about a new, progressive era in the development of the planet and humanity.
	www.teozofija.info /Kovaliova_Agni_Yoga.htm (2819 words)

	Aphorisms of Amma on Mahatmas @ Amritapuri.org
		For the water to be clean again, it needs to be connected to a river.
		"Mahatmas are like giant trees to which even elephants can be chained.
		Likewise the Mahatmas are the same as Brahman, even though assuming a form."
	www.amritapuri.org /teachings/sootra/mahatma.php?bp=1 (308 words)

	Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00296)
		I have sacrificed all my worldly prospects, as is well known in my native city of Calcutta, to devote myself to the propagation of the esoteric philosophy of my race, in connection with the Society so unjustly slandered.
		Sinnett, and is known to the Western world as "Koot-Hoomi." I had knowledge of the Mahatma in question before I knew Mdme.
		It was in the month of December, 1882, that I saw the apparition of one of the Mahatmas for the first time.
	www.theosophy.com /theos-talk/200502/tt00296.html (1107 words)

	The 'Paramhansa Advait Mat' Book, pages 229-287 - Maharaji - Elan Vital
		All the Mahatmas were surprised, as to in which language the Master was delivering His spiritual discourse and from where did He learn that.
		The Mahatmas and devotees were quite foreign to that dialect, but the labourers, being familiar with the dialect, had gone into an ecstatic mood on hearing His discourse.
		The Mahatmas said to each other that there must be some relation of earlier, births between the Master and the labourers and for that reason the Master had Himself stopped there.
	www.ex-premie3.org /papers/229-287.htm (15728 words)

	Wise Men from the East
		It is Johnson's thesis that the Adepts and Mahatmas of Blavatsky were all historical figures living in her lifetime, for whom she found suitable disguises in mysterious personae and a set of equally mysterious pseudonyms, under which they entered the mythos of Theosophy and of all modern occultism.
		A Mahatma is a personage who, by special training and education, has evolved those higher faculties and has attained that spiritual knowledge, which ordinary humanity will acquire after passing through numberless series of reincarnations during the process of cosmic evolution.
		The real Mahatma is then not his physical body but that higher [mind] which is inseparably linked to the [spirit] and its vehicle.
	www.gnosis.org /wise_men.htm (3180 words)

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		Around 35 mahatmas gathered in the serene atmosphere of the Forest Park and over a period of three and a half days they probed the depths of
		A CD of Pados was recorded and last years CD was distributed to mahatmas.
		All attendees felt that the time for the shibir was too short and they became acutely aware of the phenomenal gift of the new science that has been given to all of us by Dadashri.
	www.geocities.com /nirgranth/shibir2.html (170 words)

	A Conversation on Mahatmas
		Some persons of ability seem to be taking part in the movement, and I like many things that they say, but many others seem to me to be fanciful, either unproved, or in their very nature wholly unsusceptible of proof.
		S.--Well, for instance, I have read and heard a good deal about Mahatmas; the authority of these real or imaginary beings seems to count for a great deal, but I have yet to come across any real proof of their existence.
		I was speaking off-hand when I said that seeing a Mahatma would prove that he was one.
	www.wisdomworld.org /setting/mahatmas.html (2076 words)

	PM 'feels' Mahatma's presence in SA : Manmohan Singh, Gandhi, Satyagrah, South Africa : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		It was Mahatma Gandhi's humiliating ouster from a train in Pietermaritzburg in 1893 that inspired the launch of the historic Satyagraha movement.
		It is easy to feel the presence of the Mahatma here and to imagine what he went through during that night of June 7, 1893," he added.
		The vision that came to the Mahatma here is part of a legacy that belongs not only to South Africa and India but to the entire world," he added.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/pm-feels-mahatmas-presence-in-sa/22894-3.html (492 words)

	MAHATMAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mahatmas Initiates who have proved their courage and purity by passing through sundry tests and trials.
		"MAHATMAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamamatsu, magatama, Mahamar, mahat, Mahratta, Mahrattas, mazatzal, Mehitema.
		Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Ma/Mahatmas.html (527 words)

	The Path of Attainment by D.N.Dunlop
		Adepts, Masters and Mahatmas are basic principles in the plan of evolution, and they operate intelligently in all the worlds each in his own place and in his own way.
		When similar principles are active in any man of the race, he may be said to meet the Adept, Master or Mahatma, as the case may be, but he will regard the principles operating, and not the form or substance in which they manifest objectively.
		In that state of consciousness which is represented by the Mahatma it may be said that ideals, or the eternal ideas, in the archetypal sense, are expressed.
	www.theosophical.ca /Attainment.htm (15359 words)

	Notes on "The Key to Theosophy" (18 of 20)
		The most delicate subject in regard to the existence of the Theosophical Mahatmas is obviously that of telepathic communication or inspiration, which H.P.B. asserted to be a normal means of communication between Adepts and disciples.
		Further, if men become aware of the hidden moral influence which each exerts upon his fellows by the quality of all his thoughts and feelings, working "telepathically" at each moment of the day, the whole subject of moral responsibility is enormously deepened.
		This is not, as might superficially appear to be the case, a stressing of the particularized phenomena of which the Adepts are reputed to be capable, but rather a way of building a natural link between man's own powers and the comprehension of the nature of the Mahatmas -- and their work.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/NotesOnTheKeyToTheosophy/SeriesNumber18-of-20.html (1562 words)

	A film questions the Mahatma's legacy - The Boston Globe
		Sure, she said, the frail, cotton-robed independence leader -- known as ''the Mahatma" -- did his part and then some, leading the nonviolent rebellion that drove British colonial rulers from the subcontinent in 1947.
		But as a hero and symbol of India's freedom movement, Pachiasia said, Mohandas Gandhi leaves something to be desired.
		He was often in British jails and eventually broke bitterly with Gandhi over the Mahatma's embrace of nonviolence.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/29/a_film_questions_the_mahatmas_legacy (875 words)

	"Do the Mahatmas Exist?" by A.P. Sinnett
		To begin with, fifteen years ago I first heard from Madame Blavatsky a statement concerning great initiates of occult science who had attained to wonderfully exalted knowledge, spiritual insight, and power over natural forces of which modern science knew nothing.
		One all-important fact thus revealed was that the avenues of initiation were still open for people who were qualified to advance along them; that the “Masters,” though in seclusion, were not inaccessible for persons in whom certain interior faculties were ripe for development.
		One such person, a European [Charles W. Leadbeater] whose development has taken place since the formation of the Theosophical Society, first came into conscious relation with the Mahatmas while working for Theosophy in India in connection with the headquarters at Adyar, sharing his progress, so to speak, with friends and pupils of Madame Blavatsky’s.
	blavatskyarchives.com /sinnettmah.htm (837 words)

	Guruji Sri Muralidhara Swamigal Mission - Gospel: Guru and Saints
		When we go to have the darshan of Mahatmas, we are asked to take off our shirts.
		When we have understood a person to be a Mahatma, and still if these things are apparently exhibited, it will be a drama or a leela (play acting) for some reason.
		All great saints and Mahatmas, who were incarnations of God had had a vision of God, only after severe penance and sacrifice.
	www.madhuramurali.org /swamigal/gospel/guru.html (2022 words)

	Knowledge Session - Maharaji - Elan Vital, Maharaji, Cult
		The mahatmas also decided who was ready to receive Knowledge and who was not.
		The mahatmas would also often quote the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most revered Indian holy scriptures, which made people believe that Maharaji's Knowledge was based on Hindu tradition as well, and that receiving Knowledge would also reveal the secret meaning of Hindu scriptures.
		The Blessed Mahatma ignored the final part of the verse: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.” There is also a misquote: it is ‘thy’ name, not ‘my’ name.
	www.ex-premie.org /papers/KSession.htm (2429 words)

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