The work of the Master stocks and secures all suitable
aspects of Saturn, while the unsuitable ones are eliminated. By this Saturn becomes ever strong and helps
the student to carry out stable service for long years.
Service enables expansion of consciousness, which is
contrary to the general tendency of Saturn – causing
contraction of consciousness. The Master, who is
Master Jupiter, stands for expansion of consciousness,
with whom Saturn signs an agreement to work for long
years until the student’s consciousness supersedes the
conditioning of material.
Matter moves in circles and the agreement with the
Master transforms the circles into spiralic circles. The
movement tends to be spiralic rather than just circular.
Every cycle of time brings the student to higher states of
awareness than before. This agreement Saturn worked
out with the Master, henceforth more and more meaningful service is stimulated. A student is thus recruited
into the path of serving humanity. Intelligent activity
is the other name to serving humanity.
As the student moves up in the spiralic path, he
gradually sees better, listens better, speaks better and
acts better. He realises that the whole activity has two
phases: ‘how it is’ and ‘how it is becoming’. Thus an
observer is born in the student, who can see the shadow
of ‘becoming’ on the base of ‘is’. The being is concealed
by the becoming. ‘How it is’ is shadowed by ‘how it is
becoming’. The second phase is a mask over the first
phase. The original gets hidden by the shadow. This
necessarily causes a limitation. All created beings suffer
from this limitation.
For example, we have become humans and have
further become male or female. Thereafter we become
Asian, European, American, etc. We also become
young and old. We also become knowledgeable or
ignorant. We further become agreeable to some, disagreeable to some. There are so many veils of becoming
by which the original is totally shadowed and even
obscured. The being is obscured by becoming. This
limitation is the effect of the rings of Saturn, which is
intended to be unveiled.
The process of unveiling is through working for
others’ welfare. As man works more and more for
himself he builds more and more rings around him.
When he works for others without any expectation,
these rings weaken and disappear. Only then man
stands fit to experience life. Until then all experiences
are temporary and suffer mortality. Temporary experiences put one to a make-belief of happiness, which
evaporates very soon. Consequently, men hunt after
the mirage of happiness. The true happiness belongs
to the one, who serves as per the requisites of Saturn.
To such one, service gives one continuous experience
and continuity of experience. This is a change worked
out in the student by the Master’s spirit, by which the
student tends to be comfortable at work. Comfort at
work and continuity at work enable the student to
touch upon the territories of Sukra (Venus). Such is the
mechanism hinted at by regulation 8.
Saturn Regulations
