🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀
✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌴 THE FOUR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS - 2 🌴
32. We may contrast the two ways in a table:
🌻 Dark Path :
1. Shuts out all feeling of sorrow.
2. Puts up a wall round oneself, to shut out all sorrows.
3. Fundamentally contracts the life.
4. Leads to death, and destruction, and avichi.
1. Shuts out all feeling of sorrow.
2. Puts up a wall round oneself, to shut out all sorrows.
3. Fundamentally contracts the life.
4. Leads to death, and destruction, and avichi.
🌻 White Path :
1. Increases the power of feeling until it responds to every vibration of others.
2. Throws down every wall or barrier that separates and prevents one from feeling the sorrows of others.
3. Expands the life, as one tries to pour oneself into the lives of others.
4. Leads to life, immortality, and nirvana.
1. Increases the power of feeling until it responds to every vibration of others.
2. Throws down every wall or barrier that separates and prevents one from feeling the sorrows of others.
3. Expands the life, as one tries to pour oneself into the lives of others.
4. Leads to life, immortality, and nirvana.
33. The fundamental difference between the two ways is that the first tends towards separateness all the time, and ends up in a condition of absolute isolation, while the second aims constantly at union, and ends in a state of perfect unity.
34. The aspirant on the white path has gradually to eliminate everything in himself which can receive from the outer world anything which he feels as pain affecting himself, anything which shakes him through his personality, any sorrow or trouble of any kind which works upon him as concerning his personal self.
He must reach a point where he is incapable of feeling sorrows for his own separate interest. In fact, he is to aim at making his kamic sheath entirely a vehicle of the Higher Self, with no independent life of its own.
It is to have neither attractions nor repulsions, neither desires nor wishes, neither hopes nor fears – the whole of that is to be eliminated.
This should not convey the mistaken idea that the sheath is to be destroyed; but it must cease to respond on its own account to impressions from the outer world.
Only the separated life must be killed out, but the sheath must be kept for use in the service of humanity.
He must reach a point where he is incapable of feeling sorrows for his own separate interest. In fact, he is to aim at making his kamic sheath entirely a vehicle of the Higher Self, with no independent life of its own.
It is to have neither attractions nor repulsions, neither desires nor wishes, neither hopes nor fears – the whole of that is to be eliminated.
This should not convey the mistaken idea that the sheath is to be destroyed; but it must cease to respond on its own account to impressions from the outer world.
Only the separated life must be killed out, but the sheath must be kept for use in the service of humanity.
35. This change that the disciple must make in his own character is definitely shown in the constitution of the sheath.
In the ordinary disciple it is constantly changing its colours; but when it is purified and all the separate life is purged away it remains a colourless and radiant vehicle, only affected by the reflections that come from the inner life; it has then no colour of its own, but only that which is thrown upon it from the Higher Self, it resembles the appearance of the moon on water – a pearly radiance, in which there is a certain play which can hardly be called colour.
This change takes place very gradually in the astral body of the disciple while he is working at the difficult task of making himself responsive to all the sorrows of his fellow-men, but more and more indifferent to all which affects himself.
It would be very easy for him to kill out every feeling, but to become increasingly sensitive to the feelings of others and at the same time not to permit any personal feelings to come in, is the much more difficult task set before the aspirant.
As he goes on with the work, however, he will find that his selfish emotions quietly disappear as they become converted into unselfish emotions.
Continues....
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In the ordinary disciple it is constantly changing its colours; but when it is purified and all the separate life is purged away it remains a colourless and radiant vehicle, only affected by the reflections that come from the inner life; it has then no colour of its own, but only that which is thrown upon it from the Higher Self, it resembles the appearance of the moon on water – a pearly radiance, in which there is a certain play which can hardly be called colour.
This change takes place very gradually in the astral body of the disciple while he is working at the difficult task of making himself responsive to all the sorrows of his fellow-men, but more and more indifferent to all which affects himself.
It would be very easy for him to kill out every feeling, but to become increasingly sensitive to the feelings of others and at the same time not to permit any personal feelings to come in, is the much more difficult task set before the aspirant.
As he goes on with the work, however, he will find that his selfish emotions quietly disappear as they become converted into unselfish emotions.
Continues....
🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹
#ChaitanyaVijnanam #PrasadBhardwaj #చైతన్యవిజ్ఞానం #LightonPath #Theosophy
Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram groups:
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10 Oct 2020
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