TALKS WITH CLASS

CHAPTER I

DEVACHAN-A WORLD OF THOUGHT

We are often asked questions about Devachan, and
specific information about it has been given in our
books and in our lectures. But if you understan
will really have only fragments of knowledge, for though
your immediate question may be answered, it may
not help you to deal with your next question. What you
want to do, if you are really to get a grasp of the
laws of the spiritual world, is to take the underlying
cause, study it and grasp it. You do not then answer
questions by facts, but you apply the principle that
you grasp to explain the facts that you come across.
That is the only way really of gaining knowledge
worth calling knowledge, because there is no end to
facts and therefore no end to questions; but you can
answer them yourself if you can only apply their
underlying principles.

So with regard to the underlying principle of Devachan.
If it is grasped, if you really understand what
it means and work it out, you will be able to answer
all the subsidiary questions yourselves, instead of
bringing them to other people and memorizing, as it
were, the answers. The object, you must remember,
of all our teaching is not to give facts to memorize
as is done in the case of ordinary knowledge, but to
evolve in yourselves the faculties which will enable...