🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 10 🌹
🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀
✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 1. BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS - 10 🌻
51. To return to our main topic. It is very difficult to learn to respond to feelings, and yet not permit one’s personality to show itself in any way – to be in perfect sympathy with the feelings of others, and yet have none our own.
Many people are very much disturbed by the sight of the suffering of others, but if they do not actually see that suffering they forget it.
Many of the richer people in a city like London, for example, when taken to see the terrible misery in the slums, are very much affected, and will at once do all they can to relieve the particular cases that they see; yet the same people will go off to their hunting and fishing and pleasure, and absolutely forget that there is any misery.
In that case the sorrow is only partly for the other person’s suffering; it is largely merely the personal pain of having that suffering intruded on their notice. That kind of sympathy is a poor thing – it is not real sympathy at all.
52. When we fully realize the suffering of humanity we gradually lose sight of our own.
We forget that we have Personal sufferings because we see that the sufferings of humanity are so great, and we realize that that which falls to our lot is after all only our part of the general burden. A man who can get into that state of mind has already very largely transcended his personality.
He sorrows still for humanity, but no longer for himself; he has become incapable of tears as far as his own personal joys and sorrows are concerned.
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