L. Mental Surface
Knowing the methods of training the body and
mind is valuable, but to the agent that unceasingly is at the listening post
and obeys all necessary action automatically follows. It is the agent in whom the mental surface is
dominant and in whom this part has been for long indoctrinated by contact with
the natives, that requires to be alert.
That part of it which knows itself to be an agent should gradually
master the situation. In fact it is this
mental surface of contact which is unavoidable for the present stage of the war
conquest that had made it necessary for guides and guide books and so on.
M. The Agent is Always Pro, Never Anti
As against pseudo-agents, the agent is always
pro-Something or better still, he trains his mental surface to secure something
positive for the transformation of the base.
This is his main task and does not forget it. He does not allow his mental surface to get clogged
with fighting against Something or other.
This fighting against Something or other is a native custom. The agent is always growing with, not
against. Like his venerable fore-runner
the banyan tree whose rootlets only seek traces of water, and yet if a rock splits
it is not its fault or active intention.
N. The Use of the Word of
Reference `I’
As per local usage, the agent has to use the
word – I – for self referral. The
natives cannot exist without this word and all it means. I, mine, me, belongs to me, does not belong
to me, I and the world emphasising the Separateness. Without Separateness and
status they don’t exist. No thought or
action proceeds without this reference to `I’, and what everything means to
this I. The world is meaningful and
exists for the satisfaction or gratification of this ‘I’. Mental man is extinct without this I.
The tiger kills or eats because it is hungry –
hunger is satisfied. It does not perhaps
kill a hundred deer for me, and for Me, and for My next year’s hunger and for
my children’s hunger ten years later.
Man’s I has hunger in all the three tenses, and wholesale plunder is the
result.
The agent has no need of `I’ except for the
purpose of minimum of contact with the area and purpose of his mission.
Blogger's Note: Some pages are torn and old and I have yet to resolve some discrepancies between an electronic copy a student of Dr. Surya sent me, another much older electronic copy in a very ancient format and the actual manuscript.
with the natives such constant action, and he
trains the mental surface to participate in necessary action without the
constantly wanting to know what it is going to get out of it.
Whenever the native says ‘I’ am self-less in
imitation of the Guides, he means he is speaking for the collective ‘I’ of man’s
Collective greed, and he is willing to share some of his loot. It does not take
away the quality of greed.
To train the mental surface to subtle
differences in the use of ‘I’ and its implications is an important task, almost
the first one. Here too, attendance at the listening post helps, say the
guides. The ‘I’ is the subtlest weapon of the enemy with which the mastery of
mental man is achieved and defended. It succeeds in thwarting the invasion by
pretending to surrender. But its surrender always means openly sharing a bit
with the collective but actually inflating itself in the bargain. The one
radical method is to send it back to the listening post whenever it shows its
head. The guides call it Kamarupi, the being of many shapes.
Sex. On of the most intractable and formidable
obstacles raised by the mental surface in its contact with the natives is its
involvement with sex. By formidable tricks the natives have thwarted the guides
and their agents by forcing sex, and sex symbolism on their so-called gods and
goddesses, and play on words like Prakriti and Purusha.
Sex is a must for the present man and his
perpetuation and the power of sex is formidable.
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The agent must convince the mental surface
that it is not a question of right or wrong, moral or immoral, essential or
inessential, but that the agent or the race he represents has no interest in it
– that sex is not a means of gratification or creation for his race. The guides illustrate it by their lives and
words.
However, here again, the method of training
the first base is not mainly by struggle, but by discouraging mental support
and by the infallible means of directing the love and loyalty to the race and
its Chief and nothing else. If frankly
appraised, the listening post takes the necessary action.
Radical transformation of the territory is the
goal rather than its modification to suit native tastes.
P. Natives Aspiring to be Better and Agents Who Frankly
Recognise Themselves as such
The agent’s instructions do not apply to
aspiring natives who see no need for any new race – but wish merely for
modification of the destructive impulses of their race. Superficially their talk and action may
confuse the unwary agent and any such agent will be spreading confusion if he
preaches or professes to impart the instructions meant for himself alone.
Q. Everyone may have an agent concealed in him. There is no need for any one agent to discover
this. Meetings and discoveries happen as
ordained by the Power and its Needs.
R. Hierarchy of agents
This may or may not be evident. Its ordering is solely the concern of the
Chief. It is the characteristic of the
agent and his race that this question does not bother him. It is the mental surface that whispers – how
important are you? Who is above and
below?
S. The need to understand
The need to understand, mostly in words, is
the character of the native. It is
simply trying to reduce all fresh experience to words and feelings one already
knows. It is the greatest block to fresh
experience. This need to understand is
also coupled with the need to make others understand. This perpetual need to stand under the shade
of the past expresses itself in many ways.
The agent’s mental base must avoid this trap
and remember that his task is not to understand or be understood but BE and
BECOME – To transform for occupation the base given.
T. Similar is the
so-called need to love and be loved. This is the native’s word for to approve and be approved. With
reference to the personal separate I.
The agent represents the vibration of love or compassion without any
reference to a personal pronoun and being love in action and being it has no need
for a limited possessive concept. Here
again, it is the mental base that falls into the trap and confuses the need for
love as love.
U. The need to judge
The mental base is tainted with this need to
judge everything according to some standard or other. This is the trap that wastes a lot of energy
that should go to the work of transformation.
The fake-agents make much use of this. They pretend to use the guide’s language and
criteria for deciding on the merits or demerits of others and even prescribe
punishment or reward for so-called spiritual or moral uplift.
The guide and agent have nothing to do with
judgement for perpetuating mental man’s dominance. The task is to conquer and bring into
occupation a race that represents an imperative law that overrides and replaces
the mental law of the locals which is designed to bolster up the rule of
man. The mental man repeatedly promises
to modify or reform the law or value system – but no being will even make a law
or value system that negates the very basis of that being. The law of the mental being is ‘I’ against
the world or at best I and the world. I
AM THE WORLD is the nearest way a native can express the law of being
characteristic of the agents’ race.
V. The desire to be an agent
A strong desire to be an agent at once alerts
the system that one is not an agent – or at best only a very distorted
agent. The strong desire to be something
is the mental base and there is no harm if the desire becomes an aspiration to
quietly obey the guide till matters become clear by themselves. Don’t try to be an agent.
W. Unquestioning obedience
to the guide without too much concern for the comforts or doubts of the mental base
is the nature of the true agent.
X. The need for human
companionship is the nature of the mental base.
The only company the agent seeks and requires is the guide. The agent has not been sent for promoting or
breaking friendships. The agent has no
friend or enemy. His nature is
compassion – his task is to transform the base as a suitable instrument for
expressing compassion.
Y. The agent must rapidly become
aware of the mental base of his operations – its history and predictions and
set this in order to gain firm control.
The mental base is his first instrument of contact with the local
forces. It is a weapon forged by them
and hence it can and does betray and thwart the agent. Instead of being transformed, it can
manipulate the agents’ actions to the advantage of the native host. It often pretends to yield or surrender. It raises honest doubts and such other tricks
to trip the agent. A firm commitment to
the guide is the only method of gaining control of this first weapon and base.
Z. There is no agent
without a guide or chief of operations.
The agent and the guide have no body and no death. It is the mental base that suffers the
illusion.
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