“Mr. Old: Is it possible to escape Devachan, say from pure aversion to its useless inactivity?
Mme. Blavatsky: Most assuredly. Don’t desire anything and you won’t have Devachan. You will have nothing to hang your consciousness on. You will be asleep and snore and have no dreams.
Mr. Old: That is worse than ever. Let us dream out of preference.
Mme. Blavatsky: But there are persons who reach to such wisdom that once they are dead they are perfectly done with. I have taken off my dress and here I am. What am I going to do? Shall I go to sleep, and so on. And the person shall do as he likes.
Mr. Old: Could you predetermine those which should be your experience?
A Lady: Then you want another body.
Mme. Blavatsky: You live in your five principles.
Mrs. Besant: You keep on getting in your five principles.
Mme. Blavatsky: That is just what the adepts do; they have a perfect right to Nirvana, but they won’t go; they think it is selfish to do so, and they won’t go. They refuse the Nirvanic condition. That is just like Gautama did. He wants to be present, but he has no right to interfere with Karma.
Mr. Burrows: That would be he highest form of unselfishness.
Mme. Blavatsky: Most assuredly, because it is suffering. Every Nirmanakaya suffers, because it is terrible to be there, and see the misery and sufferings of people, and not to be able to help them.
Mrs. Besant: Still, you are a force for good.
Mme. Blavatsky: Most assuredly. This is the most glorious thing, and that is what they say that Buddha did and many of the adepts.
Mrs. Old: It is called the great renunciation.
Mme. Blavatsky: Yes. Remember what I speak about with reference to the Silent Watcher. This has got a very profound occult meaning.
Mrs. Besant: That is the great sacrifice.
Mr. Sneyd: Is not Gautama now in Nirvana?
Mme. Blavatsky: The orthodox Buddhist will tell you he is, but he is not.”
H.P. Blavatsky
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