LIGHT ON THE PATH - 13 : BEFORE THE EAR CAN HEAR IT MUST HAVE LOST ITS SENSITIVENESS - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 13 🌹

🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 BEFORE THE EAR CAN HEAR IT MUST HAVE LOST ITS SENSITIVENESS - 2 🌻

57. C.W.L. – It must not be thought that the developed person who hears uncomplimentary remarks about himself and is profoundly indifferent to them deliberately nerves himself against the feeling of irritation, and says: “That is all very dreadful, but I refuse to care; I will not pay any attention to it.”

He passes, no doubt through a stage like that, but very soon he reaches a’ state where he absolutely and utterly does not care when it is just like the twittering of birds, or like the’ cicadas whistling in the trees – they may be a nuisance but that is all.

He does not pick out one particular cicada and listen to its tone alone, nor does he single out the thought or the word of any one person who is saying something silly.

58. We must all try to reach that stage. We are constantly putting ,t before people, because it is the attitude of our Masters into whose “world” we are trying to go. They may very properly think: “How can we hope to attain to the attitude of these Great Ones?”

Of course, no one can do it immediately, but we ought to be aiming at it and trying to get as near to it as we can, and one of the ways of doing that – a method which is really quite easy – is just not to mind in the least what other people say.

59. When we have reached that attitude the next step is to think of the bad karma these people are making in thinking or speaking wrongly about us. We may then regret it for their sake, and for that reason it is well that we should endeavour not to give more cause than we can help for foolish and depreciatory remarks – not in the least because they matter to us, but because they make bad karma for the people who indulge in them.

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26 Oct 2020