What then of environment and what of its power over us?
Is environment Karma or is it Reincarnation? THE LAW is Karma, reincarnation is only an incident. It is one of the means which The Law uses to bring us at last to the TRUE LIGHT. The wheel of rebirths is turned over and over again by us in obedience to this law, so that we may at last come to place our entire reliance upon Karma. Nor is our environment Karma itself, for Karma is the subtle power which works in that environment.
There is nothing but the SELF—using the word as Max Müller does to designate the Supreme Soul—and its environment. The Aryans for the latter use the word Kosams or sheaths. So that there is only this Self and the various sheaths by which it is clothed, beginning with the most intangible and coming down to the body, while outside of that and common to all is what is commonly known as environment, whereas the word should be held to include all that is not The Self.
How unphilosophical therefore it is to quarrel with our surroundings, and to desire ...
"The language of Light is wordless, but in it is the essence of meaning" Walter Russell
"Meditation is the instrument used for the raising of one's Awareness to the highest levels of consciousness." Dr. Kandasamy Arunachalam
"2.26 The continuous practice of discrimination is the means of attaining liberation." The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
"Think that he (He / She / Fire) is outside of all things, and deep in the inside of all things; and that thou and thy world are only the thing between; and that outside and inside are both identical, couldst thou understand the supernatural truths!"
The Philosophy of Fire by Clymer, R. Swinburne pg 164
"Meditation is certainly superior to intelligence. The earth seems to be meditating. The space between the earth and heaven seems to be meditating. So also, heaven seems to be meditating. Water seems to be meditating. The mountains seem to be meditating. Gods and human beings also seem to be meditating."
Chandogya Upanishad
By pure thought, by ...