I am your Bliss

Today we celebrate the important annual alignment on the ecliptic plane of the Sun – Earth Polarity with the “Star of Direction”, Merak, referred to by Esoteric Astrology as the Rishi of First Ray (of Will or Power) of the Great Bear, the Constellation that is the Head Centre of the Great Being in Whom we live, move and have our being.

This event solicits and focuses the Will of the planetary Servers, who forcefully revive in human minds and hearts the light, elusive and powerful statement with which the Master of Agni Yoga, in the 1920s, began to “summon his followers” through a Call to the world:

I am your Bliss

When this simple sentence resounded in the consciousness of Humanity, along with six others similar in tenor (see), it certainly opened a window of hope in the confusion, uncertainty and precariousness of the world situation. And even today those who find themselves reading it or listening to it feel that just coming into contact with such a thought introduces them into a zone of silence and peace, and they feel a sense of ‘gratitude’.

The Master, in fact, showing an elsewhere that is possible and kept in store by Himself, extends His hand to the disciple, who in a flash realises that he is actually already a sharer in the spiritual nature of which the Master Himself, who embodies it perfectly, is the guarantor, and sees its reflection in the centre of his own heart.

At the same time, this powerful statement indicates a direction, a first fundamental goal, the attainment of which is assured.

The disciple, as he pursues it, will understand that, just when he extends his hand to one of the lesser ones, powerfully stretching the heart-string, he will meet that of a Greater one who will draw him to Himself: thus the arcs of consciousness are united and the supreme ordering comes true.

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Bliss is a bulwark of the world of Being and is realised through the non-self.

The Tibetan Master defines it as the sublimation of the sense of hearing and it is therefore natural to perceive it as that Sound without sound which is the synthesis of all Sounds: the most profound silence of the great Mother of the World.

“On the atmic plane this perfected hearing is seen as beatitude. Sound, the basis of existence; sound, the method of being; sound, the final unifier; sound therefore realised as the raison d’être, as the method of evolution, and therefore as beatitude.” (A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 192)

The Master of Agni Yoga says that at the centre of the Hierarchy, at the point of highest integrity, stands the Hierarchy of Bliss, the anchorage of the chain of Service.

“Service is often taken as an affirmation quite opposed to Truth. Service is regarded as something not conforming to reality. Service is regarded as a ritual, as a rhythm, which entered life incidentally. But it must be realized that Service is a chain which connects the Higher with the lower, and is affirmed in life and preordained by the manifested essence; thus the entire chain of Service enters into the Hierarchy of Bliss. Thus all actions form a unifying chain; hence the law of Hierarchy can bring us to the Highest Bliss.” (Hierarchy § 393)

Furthermore, He points out that from Bliss emanates a substance capable of neutralising the imperil, that noxious precipitate which forms as a result of the sense of widespread irritation and anxiety that often assails human beings.

“Each visibility is the reflex of a material reaction. Thus, if irritation generates imperil, then each exalted thought must create an opposite beneficial substance. And so it is. Certainly Bliss is a complete reality. It is generated in the cortical system and reacts upon the brain matter. The Tibetan ringse has a deep significance, being the sediment crystallized by the manifestation of Bliss.” (Hierarchy § 422)

In Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism, Bliss is an integral part of the Teaching of the path of the disciple.

“Primordial wisdom (yeshe-jinana) is beyond the ego, which acts as a filter between the mind and the world. When this filter is removed by wisdom, experience acquires a blissful character beyond all limits, beyond pleasure and beyond pain.” (The union of Bliss and Emptiness, XIV Dalai Lama)

With the famous Sermon on the Mount, known as “the Beatitudes”, Christ addressed the many who had gathered to hear Him, offering some of the foundational concepts of His Teaching; at the beginning of that speech He enunciated eight beatitudes, considered by believers as a model for living according to His precepts. They describe the conditions for being truly happy. The Blessed, that is, the joyful, are those who live this message and are therefore able, in whatever condition of their existence, to achieve that spiritual detachment and serenity, or Bliss, that transforms life into a miracle.
And the Catholic Church proclaims Blessed those who have borne witness to this ability.

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Many artists, especially painters, have tried to depict this state of inner joy and spiritual elevation in their works and it should be remembered, in particular, that Beatrice, the Muse of our supreme poet, is precisely the personification of Bliss. It is she who lifts Dante’s mind to Paradise (Paradiso, XXVIII, 3) and who, by progressively guiding him through different levels of awareness, leads him to such a state of grace that enables him to approach the circle of love and wisdom where the Blessed ones dwell and thus, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, to be able to gaze into the mind of God.

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Bliss is then divine Presence; it is the power of the World Servers; it is the gateway to the Infinite, the point of arrival and departure of the chain of flaming hearts stretched between the worlds, which reverberates through the various planes of Being.

“The universal Eye of Shambhala brings Bliss to mankind. The universal Eye of Shambhala is a Light on the path of mankind. The universal Eye of Shambhala is that Star which has guided all seekers.” (Hierarchy § 5)