"Readers of the Bhagavad Gita will also remember the teaching of love and devotion with which it is filled. The Bodhisattva also occupied occasionally the body of Tsong-ka-pa, the great Tibetan religious reformer, and throughout the centuries he has sent forth a stream of His pupils, including Nagarjuna, Aryasanga, Ramanujacharya, Madhavacharya, and many others, who founded new sects or threw new light upon the mysteries of religion, and among these was one of His pupils who was sent to found the Muhammadan faith. The sending out of the teachers I have mentioned above is only part of His work, which is not confined to humanity, but includes the education of all creatures on earth, and among them the Deva evolution. He is thus the Head of all the faiths at present existing, and of many others which have died out in the course of time, though He is of course responsible for them only in their original form, and not for the corruption which man has naturally and inevitably introduced into all of them as the ages have rolled by. He varies the type of religion to suit the period of the world’s history at which it is put forth, and the people to whom it is given; but though the form may vary as evolution proceeds, the ethics are ever the same."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
C.W. Leadbeater, The Masters and the Path (1925) p. 298-9
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maitreya
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Maitreya
48 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Maitreya →
Related Quotes
"For eight thousand years he will live the household life in four palaces Sirivaddha, Vaddhamāna, Siddhattha and Canda…"
"The World Teacher is that Great Being Whom the Christian calls the Christ; He is known also in the Orient as the Bodh…"
"He has been for two thousand years the supreme Head of the Church Invisible, the Spiritual Hierarchy, composed of the…"
"Profoundly interesting is this world-tragedy of conflict to those who see in it a necessary preparation, a clearing o…"
"And so, looking over the world at the moment, there seems little likelihood that when He comes He will be welcome. A …"
"Now in those days, brethren, there shall arise in the world an Exalted One by name Maitreya (the Kindly One) an Arhat…"
"And in that time of the people with an eighty thousand-year life-span, there will arise in the world a Blessed Lord, …"
"At the beginning and end of the discourse, the Buddha exhorts his monks to 'keep to their own preserves' by the pract…"
"The Buddha of the present time is the Lord Gautama, who took his last birth in India about two thousand five hundred …"
"At this time a notable teaching he will start giving is that of the ten non-virtuous deeds (killing, stealing, sexual…"