{"id":3481,"date":"2023-09-08T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-ur.com\/back-to-basics\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:45:50","slug":"back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web-ur.com\/en\/back-to-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"PB BACK TO BASICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3481\" class=\"elementor elementor-3481 elementor-884\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93d94be e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"93d94be\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18cc3db elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18cc3db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>BACK TO BASICS<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f19dd6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4f19dd6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78ba314 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78ba314\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We\u2019ve titled this section with a borrowed phrase, but one chosen with full intent. \u201cBack to Basics\u201d not only defines the content you\u2019ll find here; it\u2019s also a suggestive, appealing, and slightly challenging invitation to rediscover knowledge that is sure to leave an impression on you.<\/p><p><strong>Uses and meanings: What does \u201cback to basics\u201d entail?<\/strong><\/p><p>Although its meaning varies depending on the context, in general this concept invites us to <strong>simplify, clarify, and focus on the essentials<\/strong> to improve our understanding and performance. It is an ideal approach for regaining perspective, rebuilding a solid foundation, and bringing clarity to the crucial aspects of life.<\/p><p>In the philosophical and spiritual realm at hand, the <em>Cambridge Dictionary<\/em> defines it perfectly:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Basics:<\/strong> The central and most important principles of something.<\/li><li><strong>Back to Basics:<\/strong> Turning one\u2019s attention to the simplest and most important matters after having ignored them for a time.<\/li><\/ul><p><em>\u201cWhat comes to mind when you hear \u2018Back to Basics\u2019? It means that the fundamental concepts for understanding any subject must be clear. It implies having a clear vision of how things fundamentally work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-edc65ab e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"edc65ab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a0510c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2a0510c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Section Structure<\/strong><\/p><p>This proposal is divided into <strong>4 key sections<\/strong> for understanding human existence:<\/p><ol><li><strong>The Basic \u201cI\u201d<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Back to the Original Source<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Time\u2019s work:<\/strong> A basic element.<\/li><li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cBasics\u201d:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> Other fundamental issues for a full understanding. \u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">(Explore the 17 &#8220;Basics&#8221; below)<\/span>.<\/em><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-311ac37 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"311ac37\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f55b46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0f55b46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>1.\u00a0 The basic \u201cI\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-838d2f9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"838d2f9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1001fb6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1001fb6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Paul Brunton, in one of his notes:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed083a2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ed083a2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f94389 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f94389\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThat element in his consciousness which enables him to understand that he exists, which causes him to pronounce the words, &#8216;I Am,&#8217; is the spiritual element, here called Overself. It is really his basic self for the three activities of thinking feeling and willing are derived from it, are ripples spreading out of it, are attributes and functions which belong to it. But as we ordinarily think feel and act, these activities do not express the Overself because they are under the control of a different entity, the personal ego.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-516cd9e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"516cd9e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0af8925 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0af8925\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It goes without saying that it is imperative for all people without exception to actively attend to the myriad worldly affairs and responsibilities demanded by today&#8217;s fast-paced world, as well as to the basic needs that pertain to ordinary material life. Yes, we must do so, and with diligence and determination. However, this attentive and proper management of daily life, even when carried out with maximum efficiency, will not be sufficient on its own to achieve a soundly balanced life. We will also need to pay attention to the &#8220;basics&#8221; of our passage through life if we really want to live in such a solid balance. And the basics, from this latter perspective and in the first place, is to become aware of our true identity, our basic &#8220;I&#8221;, the Higher Self. It was Ramana Maharshi who insisted on the method of Self-enquiry &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; as the most reliable and fruitful way to achieve this initial awareness, as the first step towards the &#8220;admission&#8221; of this <strong>basic &#8220;I&#8221;<\/strong> as the &#8220;real&#8221; identity of the individual. More PB notes in this regard:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-902901c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"902901c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71a5a5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71a5a5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>The final \u2018I\u2019 is not the \u2018I\u2019 of the senses nor of the desires but a deeper entity, free and unattached, serene and self-sufficient.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>The personal pronoun \u2018I\u2019 really represents the Overself, the divine part of man. What people usually refer to as \u2018I\u2019\u2014the body or the intellect or the emotions\u2014is not the basic \u2018I\u2019 at all.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cIs it true that most men suffer from mistaken identity? Normal experience leads a man to identify with his body but he fails to go farther and deeper to ask himself: &#8216;Who is present in the body?\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cMan as scientist has put under observation countless objects on earth, in sea and sky. He has thoroughly examined them. But man as man has put himself under a shallower observation. He has limited his scrutiny first to the body, second to what thinking can find. Yet a deeper level exists, where a deeper hidden self can be found.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cYou have a body but the real you is not physical. You have an intellect but the real you is not intellectual. You have emotions but the real you is not emotional. What then are you? You are the infinite consciousness of the Overself.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cEvery verbal explanation really fails to explain the Overself unless and until we know it for ourselves within ourselves and as ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cIt is now and not in some future time of achievement that he should, in this exercise, regard only his best self as his Identity.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cIt is all the difference between living at the still centre and on the bustling circumference, at the mysterious core and on the prosaic surface.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThis is what he has to learn\u2014and it can be learned only by personal practice, not from any book\u2014how to keep in beautiful equipoise receptivity to his sacred Centre and efficiency in attending to the world&#8217;s demands. This is answering Jesus&#8217; call to be in the world but not of it. This is the union of busy actuality with central tranquillity.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cIn the last reckoning life is really a process whereby the individual becomes conscious of his own true identity. The spiritual nature of man does not exist potentially, but actually. The discovery of his own identity is simply man&#8217;s destruction of the hypnotic illusions of Ego, Time, Space, Matter, and Cause\u2014his moment of release from untruth.<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cHe will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when the consciousness that the Spirit is his own very self comes to life within him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a5b226 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8a5b226\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0e99d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0e99d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>2.\u00a0 Back to the Original Source<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a044e30 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a044e30\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da39a3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"da39a3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The following excerpts from PB notes give us a fairly accurate idea of this concept:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cdd5ae e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0cdd5ae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5057b2b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5057b2b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>Man is what he is. Nothing can alter that. Out of the immortal, benign, eternal Mind he came, to It he shall return. Meanwhile It is their very essence, that is, It is life.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cA better balanced view is provided by philosophy and that is that consciousness, real consciousness, cannot die, but only returns to its ultimate source.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cGo back to the hidden Ground of everything, the passive Mind or pure Being, the First, the unconditioned Origin of all. This is utterly inconceivable and unknowable. The very concept of it, this infinite mystery of mysteries, is so awesome that the little mind of man hesitates and trembles when it even approaches it in the deepest meditation. It is beyond the capacity of that mind to penetrate the reality behind the concept. A mediating principle is necessary here. This exists in the Overself, which is nothing more than a germ of that same infinite MIND, although to the adventurous mystic it seems the unlimited End of all.\u201d If this were not present in man, not only would mystical experience be impossible for him, but all religious intuition would be mythical to him. This is the divinity within him, but it is only a spark. The fullness of the flame is with the Godhead alone.<\/em><em style=\"font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-6); color: var( --e-global-color-primary );\">\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3c2bea e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c3c2bea\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c9f03b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2c9f03b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Return to our Source. Go back to the hidden Ground. Back to the basic \u201cI\u201d, to our origin. To regain the consciousness of our pure and timeless being. We can say it in many ways, but why have we lost this consciousness, and why do we have to regain it? In reality, we have never lost it; all that the facts show is that this apparent loss exists only transitorily, that there is only, so to speak, a <em>temporary neglect<\/em> of this our true Self, and that this is temporary because the inescapable destiny of every creature is the full self-awareness of its Higher Self and its safe return to the Original Source, to its primal state. The clarity and insight shown in some of Paul Brunton&#8217;s notes on this question is priceless&#8230;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f16ab0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2f16ab0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-080ca79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"080ca79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>For if we are divine and timeless beings now (and who can gainsay it that has had a glimpse of that starry state memorably vouchsafed to him?) then we have always been such. How can we evolve who are already self-existent, perfect beings? Does it not seem more probable that something alien has accreted around us, covering up the sublimer consciousness; that Time&#8217;s work is not to raise us but to free us; that our search is not for a loftier state but for our pristine state, to recover our former grandeur? What we need is not to grow but to know. Evolution cannot help us, but self-knowledge can.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38e582d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"38e582d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-942fa2d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"942fa2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-knowledge is vital. We need to know our true nature. Just as we need to free ourselves from the dominance of that something alien that has &#8220;accreted&#8221; around us, &#8220;that something alien&#8221; that we usually call the ego&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c88eeb0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c88eeb0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27648c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27648c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>My reference to not clinging to the ego simply means that the aspirant must learn the art of releasing what is transitory in himself and in his existence\u2014that which can survive only temporarily. The Real Individuality\u2014the sense and feeling of simply Being\u2014can never perish, and is the true immortality. No one is asked to sacrifice all interest and appreciation in &#8220;things&#8221;: one may continue to appreciate them\u2014provided their transiency is understood and one does not deceive himself into overvaluing them. The prophets merely say that the eternal life cannot be found in such things.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThere are two kinds of immortality (so long as the lower self dominates consciousness): first, the &#8220;endless&#8221; evolution of the ego, gradually developing through all its many manifestations; and, secondly, the true immortality of the everlasting, unchanging Real Self\u2014or Overself\u2014which forever underlies and sustains the former.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe ego is after all only an idea. It derives its seeming actuality from a higher source. If we make the inner effort to search for its origin, we shall eventually find the Mind in which this idea originated. That mind is the Overself. This search is the Quest. The self-separation of the idea (the ego) from the mind which makes its existence possible (the Overself), is egoism.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe ego cannot, indeed, be destroyed so long as we need its services while in the flesh; but it can be subjugated and turned into a servant instead of permitting it to remain a master. When this is understood, the philosophical ideal of a fully developed, mastered, and richly rounded ego acting as a channel for the inspiration and guidance of the Higher Self will be better appreciated. A poverty-stricken ego will naturally form a more limited channel for the expression of the Higher Self than would a more evolved one. The real enemy to be overcome is not the entity ego, but the function of egoism.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe ego is not asked to destroy itself but to discipline itself. The personal in a man must live, but only as a slave to the impersonal. These two identities make up his self.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe ego which gets a man into his troubles is unlikely to get him out of them\u2014unless it reforms, learns, or lets some wisdom in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59e0c13 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"59e0c13\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7e138c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7e138c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>3.\u00a0 Time\u2019s work: A basic element.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a69871 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6a69871\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51b2903 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"51b2903\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>And we know that this Quest, this effort for &#8220;liberation from the ego&#8221;, that is, from egoism, is not achieved in the course of a single incarnation. We must return again and again to this earth. It is only through these innumerable returns to the physical world, through the intense and profound experiences there, that we finally understand Reality as it is, and complete our &#8220;return to the pristine state.&#8221;<\/p><p>Several of Paul Brunton&#8217;s notes speak of this involvement of Time in our development through human existence. Here are some of the most representative:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95cedf2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"95cedf2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5372bd4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5372bd4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIf it were true that a bad man must always remain bad, where would the hope be for mankind? But in the perfect wisdom of the Infinite Mind, human lives are so arranged that the bad man will go on garnering the untoward results of his deeds until his mind, first subconsciously but later consciously, perceives the logical and causal connection between his act and his suffering and begins the attempt to control his evil tendencies. Both this education and this effort will continue through many births for a single one would be too short in time, too poor in opportunity, for such a total reformation to be achieved.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe awful fact of innate evil, the hideous mystery of innate sin, must be recognized and faced.\u00a0We\u00a0cannot make bad men into good men; but Nature, Life, with millions of years at her disposal, can.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cAt the present stage of human existence, there is no other way to durable spiritual development than through physical embodiments. The total sum of its varied experiences offer us the chance at first to learn and thus to progress, and later to overcome ourselves and thus to attain spiritual awareness.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cWe have to become in actuality what we are in potentiality; all our rebirths are engaged in this process.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe life that is in us goes at death into the life that is in the universe. It is as secure there as it was in us. It is not lost. Thereafter it reappears in another form, another body.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cWe travel from one body to another, with suitable and necessary rest-periods in between them.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAll men come back to bodily life again if they leave a residue of karma. All karma that is not brought to an end by bringing the mind&#8217;s bondage to the ego-thought to an end, makes reincarnation inescapable.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe sense of time between incarnations varies. Five minutes to one is a hundred years to another.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe difference between life as we ordinarily know it and as it appears between incarnations is that here we have an apparent mixture of two worlds, the mental and the phenomenal, whereas there only the former exists.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cEvery person maintains his or her individuality\u00a0during and after the perishing of the body-thought.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cHeredity can answer for a man&#8217;s face and form and nervous type but it cannot answer for his genius. Here it is necessary to bring in something quite different\u2014the development of his talent through repeated earth lives.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cYou must remember that everyone without exception stands in life just where the evolutionary flow has brought him and that his outward life is the result of all those previous experiences in many, many incarnations.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cHow old is the series of experiences through which we moved unknowingly towards our present evolutionary position! How lofty is the level toward which we have yet to climb!\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cIf he does not forget the final purpose of all this worldly activity, that through the body&#8217;s life and the mind&#8217;s existence he may seek and find his true self, the Overself, the inner failure and superficiality of so many lives will be avoided.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe clinging to the \u2018I\u2019 or the aggressive assertion of it, is something which will yield only to the intermittent batterings of constant frustrations, repeated disappointments, and frequent misfortunes\u2014that is to say, to the experience of hundreds, if not thousands, of earthly incarnations.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cIf we have all had many many previous lives on earth, we have also had many many previous deaths on earth. The actual experience of dying must leave some residual lesson or meaning or message behind in the subconscious.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cOnly when the lessons of birth after birth etch themselves deeply and unmistakably into his conscious mind through dreadful repetition can he accept them co-operatively, resignedly, and thus put a stop to the needless sufferings of desire, passion, and attachment.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe experiences of life will in the end overcome these inner resistances. The silent instruction multiplied during the re-embodiments will defeat the psychological defense mechanisms set up against unpalatable truths or new ideas. It is the repetition and deepening of all these lessons through the accumulating rebirths that enables wisdom to penetrate consciousness completely and effectively.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe actual finding of Truth, which is the same as Nirvana, Self-Knowledge, Liberation, is really a work of brief duration\u2014perhaps a matter of minutes\u2014whereas the preparation and equipment of oneself to find it must take many incarnations\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cCoaxed by pleasure in some incarnations and driven by pain in others, man slowly learns to use his faculties and powers aright.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cTo become Man as evolution intends him to be, he must draw out all his latent resources, fill out a wide experience. This is why so many reincarnations on earth are needed. Until then, his realization as Man will be an incomplete one.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIf man is inwardly already godlike, pure Spirit, only the development and evolution which are gained from experience\u2014that is, time\u2014can bring him to conscious realization of the fact.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201cThe ripe wisdom of a sage could not possibly be the fruit of a single lifetime, but only of many lifetimes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-193eba0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"193eba0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-382da75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"382da75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>4. \u201cBasics\u201d: Other fundamental issues for a full understanding.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a2d700 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2a2d700\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db759c5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"db759c5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many basic issues involved in our personal and spiritual progress, and to study and analyze them thoroughly is a necessary and fundamental task for anyone who wishes to move towards a successful understanding of human reality. In this last section we explore, in a particular way, some of them, which we have simply called <strong>&#8220;Basics&#8221;<\/strong> and whose content is, once again, a selection of Paul Brunton&#8217;s inspiring notes which, appropriately arranged, form an ideal medium for the in-depth study of these issues. Brunton&#8217;s keen reflections, more precise considerations and more practical advice are extraordinarily useful and ultimately a key source of knowledge, both for a deeper development of our inner life and for a wiser management of our outer life. Knowledge that, as we noted at the outset, will move us without delay towards a sound understanding of human life as a whole.<\/span><\/p><p>Paul Brunton:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-707d27c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"707d27c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad65592 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad65592\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWe may begin by asking what this philosophy offers us. It offers those who pursue it to the end a deep understanding of the world and a satisfying explanation of the significance of human experience. It offers them the power to penetrate appearances and to discover the genuinely real from the mere appearance of reality; it offers satisfaction of that desire which everyone, everywhere, holds somewhere in his heart\u2014the desire to be free.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ce4e14 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6ce4e14\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7b12fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7b12fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Many of the BASICS, though divided thematically, are intrinsically related, just as many of Brunton&#8217;s notes fit into more than one of these Basics. In the end, both the division and the assignment of the notes, although following a purely personal criterion, has been done seeking to represent, complement and focus as best as possible each idea, theme, or basic question individually, but it will undoubtedly be the whole that, in the end, will give us the true perspective on the constant flow of the human adventure. Here are the 17 BASICS available:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63a4db4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63a4db4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca01713 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca01713\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 1: <strong>Brief notes on 40 topics: an overall vision for an ideal start<\/strong><\/span><b>&#8230; \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11Is66mLPGBozIm1DL-yR5lgcBSiDnueR\/edit\">Explore Basics 1<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 2: <strong>Here is a teaching, a Universal Knowledge: the genuine philosophy&#8230; of PB. <\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1RHUfvszqEZQ8Kxpf6mH9bWKn72wph9Yo\/edit\">Explore Basics 2<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 3: <strong>Sift all teachings. All must be tested by experience! <\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1MNQpHM9YtObRpYHrw125UcF9fAB0N8GP\/edit\">Explore Basics 3<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 4: <strong>Undertaking the Quest&#8230; of the Overself<\/strong><\/span><b>. \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1_QdCeaDhKyYiJaDNrFGKt7LIOCPsfmRD\/edit\">Explore Basics 4<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 5: <strong>A courageous person: The Quester (Seeker) of Spiritual Truth<\/strong><\/span><b><strong>. <\/strong><\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1OyxYe_lutoiQQKrTU0azfv2aWudiQuqr\/edit\">Explore Basics 5<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 6: <strong>Our own way and path is Unique<\/strong><\/span><b>. \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1XXv-DV0rj3skc-KOVgSPDDkn4iWN9v9u\/edit\">Explore Basics 6<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 7:<\/span><b> <strong>Is a spiritual teacher necessary? or a Master or Guru? <\/strong><\/b>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1LwzBuME-MNxAm6bdpAN6QpdHzKYxjVrO\/edit\">Explore Basics 7<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 8: <strong>The spiritual and the physical: A sounder balance is required. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vmVX6yrVTxmDsNCHYZVEFu5mBQ-n-3Za\/edit\">Explore Basics 8<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 9: <strong>Nature and inspired art: pathways to intuitive feeling and action<\/strong><\/span><b>. \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Si20Xlqbatj5iRViBGwpkquwnkwWyeqJ\/edit\">Explore Basics 9<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 10: <strong>Impersonal love: the true beloved is not a person but a presence<\/strong><\/span><b>.\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1sqEnfMVdMhyLKIxtwc88dLEaFboEaN9q\/edit\">Explore Basics 10<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 11: <strong>Jesus&#8217; inspiring message&#8230; by PB (1st part)<\/strong><\/span><b> \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1MtBamNz0neDbmuDcYNRE0nRBPD8vowqR\/edit\">Explore Basics 11<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 12: <strong>Jesus&#8217; inspiring message&#8230; by PB (2nd part)<\/strong><\/span><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1YLnkjv8n9S2F1EYCZinXViyYF6tWWxED\/edit\">Explore Basics 12<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 13: <strong>No one can be blamed&#8230; in the broadest sense of the phrase<\/strong><\/span><b>.\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1hnIQANgexPcKi-8csyltFJo2hGi_Sv5R\/edit\">Explore Basics 13<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BASICS 14: <strong>All of us need forgiveness<\/strong><\/span><b>. \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1XCr94Q2XQQSE3ZOqQp65Wv2HybIpcjBs\/edit\">Explore Basics 14<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>BASICS 15: <strong>The physical world is our school for spiritual discovery<\/strong><b>.\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"> <a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/132N5hOjjd9Fztu39Sh5SAMcDklJm4JkV\/edit\">Explore Basics 15<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>BASICS 16: <strong>The\u00a0presence of Evil in the world<\/strong><b>.\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"> <a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1f5kiliM5AOZ-nx5NCUoyTiLcXnergTuQ\/edit\">Explore Basics 16<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>BASICS 17: <strong>Suffering and its place in the divine scheme of things<\/strong><b>.\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"> <a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1O0t2NSgiVqbPq_iYZNW8FNRJtIyWDNck\/edit\">Explore Basics 17<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a379f1a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a379f1a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f656fbe elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"f656fbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dcdb8ee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"dcdb8ee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7f6bc6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b7f6bc6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cBecause we have lost our way, these truths are once again as fresh and significant and important as if they had never before been known to humanity.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cThe effect of a full and proper absorption of these ideas is to strengthen a man and invigorate his purpose, to make him feel that what is behind the universe is behind him too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACK TO BASICS We\u2019ve titled this section with a borrowed phrase, but one chosen with full intent. \u201cBack to Basics\u201d not only defines the content you\u2019ll find here; it\u2019s also a suggestive, appealing, and slightly challenging invitation to rediscover knowledge that is sure to leave an impression on you. 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