by natha.net

Living in peace, without breaking the divine laws, the beings from Shambala follow the path of wisdom, and it is obvious that they have reached very high spiritual levels. Many of them practice the highest of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, Kala-Chakra-Tantra, or the doctrine of the Wheel of Time.

Their king, who lives in a great palace in the centre of Shambala, is a Bodhisattva, a being who could enter Nirvana, the last stage of liberation from any suffering, but he renounces this in order to help people closely. As Bodhisattva, he gathers the roles of the worldly king and that of the spiritual teacher in one person. Due to the help of the King and the teachings he has, he who frantically aspires to reach Shambala is able to develop the wisdom and compassion necessary to become a Buddha – a man who has reached Ultimate Realization.

Shambala is led by a limited number of superior spiritual beings, which often have been referred to as Mahatmas, which in Sanskrit means “The Great Hearts”, “The Great Spirits”. These are realized beings, with paranormal powers, who finished their evolution on this planet but who took the mission to watch over humanity, in order to help it evolve spiritually.

Buddhist philosophy admits the existence of much evolved beings, called Arhats in Sanskrit, or Lohans in Chinese. An Arhat is a person who, during his long planetary evolution, has become completely free from attachment to passions and desires of illusory existence and ended all his karmic (destined) debts. According to Tibetan texts, the two tasks of an Arhat are to aspire towards spiritual enlightenment and to give an impulse to the elevation of people. When the Arhat comes closer to Nirvana, the Ocean of Cosmic Consciousness, he receives paranormal powers, which allow him to make his body lighter or heavier, smaller or bigger.  At the same time, he becomes master over matter, time, and space and can appear anywhere. The Arhat reaches the knowledge of everything that exists, and he also has the memory of his previous lives. Fulfilling the terrestrial cycle of evolution, he will no longer be forced to be reborn in the physical level. The Arhat who chose to come to Earth sacrifices himself for humanity, becoming a Bodhisattva, a saviour, who, in a visible or invisible way, will help people in their spiritual evolution. Through the knowledge of Kriya Shakti (the divine energy of action), the Bodhisattvas can create a visible body for themselves, structured from elementary atomic matter, which can seem solid and real. Also, they can choose to stay invisible and to enjoy the “subtle spiritual world”.

A certain number of Arhats reincarnate in order to keep their contact with terrestrial humanity uninterrupted, but that group is very limited. The length of the existence of their bodies is almost infinite, because for them the Wheel of Rebirths has stopped.

The ensemble of Shambala communities is made of certain genuine initiations, which are found in one of the four phases of their evolution in this world, namely: Srotapatti (the one who enters in the ascendant spiritual stream that leads to Nirvana), Sakridagamin (the one who is born again), Anagamin (The one who does not return), and Arhat (Enlightened). N. Roerich tells one of the stories that a Tibetan lama (monk) revealed to him:
“Indeed, sometimes the people from Shambala come to the world. They meet elevated beings from the Earth, who come to collaborate with Shambala for the good of mankind, they give them objects (for example, yantras), which to allow them instant resonance with Shambala.”
Then the priest spoke about the sudden appearance of Ridgen Jyepo, Master from Shambala, in monasteries. “When he enters a temple, all candles light by themselves,”as happened when he visited the Narabanchi Kure monastery, in western Mongolia, in 1890. Doctor Seike Wada, in his Memoirs, published in Los Angeles in November 1964, writes: “The Masters do not appear according to a certain schedule. Sometimes they come and address everybody; in other circumstances, their teachings are only for certain selected disciples or for only one of them.” Doctor Wada, adept of Theosophy, had the privilege of seeing Kut Humi, Morya and Djual Kul, out of all the masters who are well known to western students of occultism. The moments spent in the monastery, at the feet of these Masters, were moments when the light of the highest spirituality was lit for him.

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