M: Because you identify yourself with your body you ask this question. Find out if you are the body.
The Bhagavad Gita says that those who cannot understand the transcendental nature of Sri Krishna are fools, deluded by ignorance.
The master appears in order to dispel that ignorance. As Tayumanavar puts it, he appears to dispel a person's ignorance, just as a deer is used as a decoy to capture another deer in the jungle. The master has to appear with a body in order to eradicate our ignorance, the 'I am the body' idea.
Q: Theosophists meditate to seek masters.
M: The master is within. Meditation is for removing the ignorant idea that he is external. If he were a stranger whose coming you were awaiting, he would also be bound to disappear. What is the use of a transient being like that?
However, so long as you think you are an individual or the body, then the master is necessary and will appear with a body. When this wrong identification ceases, the master will be found to be the Self.
- Conscious Immortality
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