LIGHT ON THE PATH - 11 : BEFORE THE EYES CAN SEE THEY MUST BE IN CAPABLE OF TEARS - 11

🌹   LIGHT ON THE PATH - 11  🌹

🍀 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 - 11 🌻


53. It is not an easy matter to regard the sufferings of others accurately.

The President and I some years ago investigated the question of the influence of pain upon different people undergoing what from the outside would be regarded as the same physical suffering.

We found that in an extreme case one person was suffering perhaps a thousand times more than another, and that in ordinary life one might quite often feel pain a hundred times more than another.

If one.shows signs of suffering and another does not, it must not be assumed that the latter is necessarily braver or more philosophic. It may not be the case.

We looked into the question of the amount of suffering which was inflicted on different people by the ignominies of prison life; to some persons they meant practically nothing, to others the most intense mental and emotional suffering.

So it is futile to say: “I do not feel such and such a thing, and therefore other persons ought not to feel it either.” One does not know to what degree or in what proportion others are feeling.

I have found that many things which do not matter in the least to me may nevertheless cause serious pain to others; whereas it has been quite the reverse as regards other things, such as unpleasant sounds, for example which often cause acute suffering to those who are developing their finer senses.

I have seen our President in a condition of positive agony when a great ammunition wagon went clanging by the house where we were staying in Avenue Road, in London.

This does not mean, of course, that she lost control of her nerves. She has often explained that while the disciple must increase his sensitiveness he must also control his nervous system, so as to bear without flinching whatever pain or disturbance may come to him.

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