Agni Yoga and Maiteya Sangha.

What is Maitreya Sangha as a philosophical concept? What is it related to?

Maitreya Sangha is a Brotherhood of men and women who love beauty and knowledge and therefore love each other because they are both beautiful and knowledgeable and some of them are quite wise.

They love Art in the broader sense: Visual Art (Painting, Design and Sculpture), Performing Art (Music, Theater and Dance), Handicraft Art, anything which is beautiful inside and/or outside. They love to sing and dance and watch
beautiful singing and dancing, beautiful painting, sculptures, folk art etc. Beauty is their oxygen, they cannot live a day or even an hour without it.

Beauty gives them Love, it purifies them and makes them open-minded and expands their consciousness to Higher Truths. Purity gives them Wisdom and Inner Knowledge, intuition or superconsciosness. It awakens their inner voice, the
voice of their Heart. It awakens their conscience and make them sensitive to the pains and joys of others. They learn compassion from an early age. They cannot tolerate injustice and therefore they are inborn fighters with the evils of the
world, even if they are tender and physically weak. But they are strong in spirit as they feed it constantly with the energies of Cosmos which they do not waste carelessly as most others do. They accumulate their energy by not wasting
it on petty talk, petty thoughts and petty deeds. They vaguely sense that they came not just in case but with a Mission, to make the world a better place in their own way.

They vaguely sense that they are not alone in the world, yet most of their life they feel very lonely, like Robinson on an uninhabited island. Their problem is that they all scattered evenly on the face of Earth so that their Rays of Love, Beauty
and Knowldge are spread more equitably among nations. When they meet each other they feel enormous joy and intimacy as if they knew each other for thousands of years and very often it may be the case. However, they cannot
always find common language or a suitable excuse to learn each other better and later they suffer reproaching themselves for faint-heartedness and shyness. They feel they need unity but do not have enough strength or time to seek it actively.

Epoch of Maitreya Sangha is the time when such people of goodwill, of Love, Beauty and Knowledge will find each other, will fall in love with each other and will become like one. They will become one family, brothers and sisters, and
will lead others to discover and embrace the sacred principles of Love, Beauty and Knowledge too. They will establish societies united by the same framework of Ethics, Altruism and Culture and then will come to power in many countries.
At that moment the world will become a Brotherhood, a Federation or Confederation of free and open societies which will overcome the limitations and inherent violence of national statehood.

In terms of closeness to another philosophical system, Maitreya Sangha path is essentially a petal of the Rose of Agni Yoga, Living Ethics Teaching given to us by a multitude of Messengers of Light but most recently through Nicholas and
Helena Roerich, Helena Blavatskaya and Boris Abramov. But it is also a petal of a larger Rose of Mahayana Buddhism and ancient Kalachakra Teaching and is a sister to Theosophy, Esoteric Christianity, Esoteric Judaism (Kabbala), Baha'i
Ulla faith, Zoroastrism, Sikh Faith and a number of other esoteric and exoteric paths of right hand. All Agni Yoga does is removes the centuries-old dust from ancient teachings, like the Teachings of Buddha and Christ and re-emphasizes their
key principles forgotten in the mist of ages in a language understandable to a modern man and woman.

Maitreya Sangha is a facet of diamond of Agni Yoga which emphasizes the importance of unity of people of Goodwill in order to defeat world's evils. It emphasizes the practical ways through which such a unity can be built: specific political, economic, social and cultural measures that need to be taken.
Maitreya Sangha is Agni Yoga but also is the most practical, down-to-earth part of it.

What is Agni Yoga? It is a supreme synthesis of all highest yogas but Karma Yoga is an essential part of it. Agni Yoga is the path of a conscious altruism, of balance between self-improvement and service for the Common Good. It is the most recent and at the same time is the most ancient of all yogas. It is the ultimate shortcut to knowing oneself and to highest worlds. It is the path of all Messengers of Light, a common spiritual denominator cutting across nations, centuries,
cultures and civilizations.

It is the most common path of the greatest of saints, artists, military genia, scientists, philosophers, composers, sculptors, statesmen, poets, authors and dancers. Most of them did not call themselves Agni Yogis or even Yogis but in reality they all were on that path characterized by Beauty, Knowledge and Love which were normally expressed through superhuman work, artistic, military or political geniality, diverse talents, longing for world unity, peace and justice, life of
self-sacrifice and compassion.


Is Maitreya Sangha a science, a philosophy, a religion or an ideology?
It can be called either or neither depending on what is meant by these terms. It is all a matter of definition. If religion is apurely cultural phenomenon, set of dogmas, rules and rites, Maitreya Sangha as a facet of Agni Yoga is not a religion. If
religion is a true connection with God (from lat. religare), then AY is a religion as any other yoga. It is not a philosophy per se as it is very practical, ethical teaching of daily life. It has its own set of beliefs and principles. It is a path of selfless
altruistic service for Common Good, its main goal is building a world without frontiers, a universal family of humankind which can be politically expressed as a loose Federation or Confederation. It can be called ideology as it is based on
quite specific and powerful ideas but it is free of moral and ethical flaws that each known ideology entails.

Maitreya Sangha as a facet of Agni Yoga is the one of the most ethical and moral ideologies, one of the most practical, flexible and open-minded religions, and one of the most sophisticated, concrete and clearest philosophies. It is scientific
in its nature, religious in its method, profound in its philosophy and practical in its ideology.

Therefore, Maitreya Sangha as a facet of Agni Yoga is not a religion, a philosophy, a science or an ideology taken separately but their fiery synthesis. It shares features of them all, as a system of universal knowledge and virtuous
practice, but is a unique, a sui generis phenomenon. It can be called modern secular spirituality and as such is an heir to the ancient and medieval systems of secular spirituality.



How can I contribute to the Cause of World Brotherhood?

Apply the principles of Beauty, Love and Knowledge to your daily life, be beautiful inside and outside, emanate love everywhere, with everything and everyone, try to know as much as possible, be open to new information and ideas.
After you have mastered these principles for yourself and feel strong enough, go and share what you have learned with your brothers and sisters. Save yourself and thousands around you will be saved. BUT: remember about the sacrifice of
Boddhisattva who renounces nirvana and stays with the world to help others. Self-improvement by itself has litlle value if it is not sought for the sake of others. A better instrument to serve - this is the key principle of self-perfection.

Practical application of these principles will make the dream of World Brotherhood, le monde sans frontieres, a reality since you will not differentiate people by race, nationality, religion, gender or age but only by their virtues. All virtuous people by definition will be brothers and sisters. This will have to be reflected in a political, legal and economic framework.Of course, this will be a very long-term process. But only a gradual improvement of human beings and their
relations can achieve it.

Any attempts to accelerate this process by forceful means are doomed to failure. Alexander the Great, Chingiz-Khan, Tamerlane, Napoleon, Lenin and many others -- all of them tried in good faith but failed. History is a natural process
based on objective laws of physics just like Newton's laws. One has to respect them just like one respects the law of gravitation and does not attempt to challenge it.

However, there is a shortcut to World Brotherhood short of revolutions, wars and dictatorships: ART which is embodiment of Beauty and CULTURE which is a synthesis of Love, Beauty and Knowledge.

Language of Art in the broader sense is universal, it ignores any national boundaries. Language of Culture is also universal and is spoken heart to heart in avoidance of cold, analyzing and dividing intellect. Let us speak more of these
languages and less of the language of politics which is in most cases divisive. Speaking language of business will not lead to Brotherhood per se but it will help create material foundations for speaking higher idioms. Let us therefore be firmly in
the soil of Earth with both our feet and let us breeth a rejuvenating and inspiring air of Art and Culture with any opportunity.

Pax Cultura means Peace through Culture or else Brotherhood through Culture: through Beauty, Knowledge and Love. Only individuals who integrate in their personality these three principles could be in power for the World Brotherhood to
take place:
1. Who are so pure and ethical that they emanate inner and outer Light and Beauty.

2. Who are so wise and knowledgeable that they can resolve any differences and issues

3. Who are so selfless and altruistic that they will never hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the sake of others, of Common Good and who share everything they have with those who need and deserve it - these Titans of Heart are a permanent source of Love and Joy shining like the Sun and warming everything and everyone around. Only if these individuals assume ethical control over governments worldwide, can there be a permanent peace and justice on Earth. Ethics should again become a cornerstone of our life, Heros should again become idols for the young, and
ethical, wise and altruist leaders should be able to come to power peacefully through democratic means.

India has shown a great example worth imitation everywhere: Mahatma Gandhi was brought to supreme power from nowhere only because he fully synthesized Love, Beauty and Knowledge and became a living god in his lifetime. Sergiy
of Radonezh achieved the same divine synthesis but preferred life of a monk to the crown of Patriarch. When such righteous rulers as Solomon and Akbar the Great are in power, the country is prospering, the culture is blossoming and
the people rejoice.

Let there be more Akbars, Gandhis, Solomons and Sergiys. Let them come back. Let the Rose of the World blossom and let Maitreya Sangha become a reality on Earth.

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