🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀
✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌴 THE FOUR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS - 3 🌴
36. The disciple may test the quality and genuineness of his sympathy by looking to see whether or not he feels it when the suffering of others is not intruded upon his notice.
If you see a person suffering, or if you come across a case of gross ill-usage, no doubt you feel pain, but do you feel the same pain when the person is not before your sight? Our sympathy is an exceedingly poor thing if it is excited only by the sight of suffering.
Send a person out into a great city like London, and he may be terribly affected by the suffering that he sees around him; but take him away from it all and he will soon forget the miseries he has witnessed and will become perfectly happy.
The disciple has to learn to live as if the whole of that suffering were present before him all the time; to relieve it must be the motive of his work.
37. No one has reached the stage where he is responsive to the great cry of pain, spoken of in The Voice of the Silence?1 unless his motive in life is to help humanity whether the suffering be before his eyes or not, for that is the real motive-power of a disciple.
The best way to get rid of personality, to grow indifferent to one’s own personal joys and sorrows, to become incapable of tears, is to let the mind think upon the sorrow of the world and the ways of helping it; that causes the personal self to be seen in its true place beside the larger self of the great orphan humanity.
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11 Oct 2020
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