LIGHT ON THE PATH - 4 : THE FOUR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS - 4

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✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌴 THE FOUR PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS - 4 🌴

38. When the disciple passes through Initiation and begins to develop the buddhic consciousness, this incapacity for tears takes on a new character.

He then begins to understand the word evolution, to realize that in man it means the unfoldment of the higher triad; then he begins to see the real use and object of all the suffering and pain.

He gradually becomes incapable of tears because he understands the value of the suffering to those who are undergoing it, because he sees that when pain comes to a man it does so as an absolute necessity for the higher development of his soul.

It is true that theoretically the man might have avoided that suffering if he had acted wisely in the past, for it is the result of his past karma when it is not produced by his present follies; but the practical aspect of the matter is that the man has been foolish, has elected to learn through this kind of experience instead of through wisdom, because he has not always chosen to follow the best he knew, and now he is suffering, and the pain is bringing him wisdom for the future, and is thereby promoting his evolution.

39. Realizing this, the disciple reaches a condition in which he may be described as full of the most perfect sympathy but without regret. The sense of regret comes in only when the consciousness is unillumined by the buddic life.

When the buddhic consciousness is felt, the disciple’s sympathy increases enormously, but his regret disappears, and as he rises higher this wider view makes him incapable of tears, because in the face of the bitterest suffering to which he is learning to respond and to feel in himself, he feels also its object and end.

He can share in the suffering to the full, but without the slightest wish that it should be anything other than it is. The absence of any wish to get rid of the suffering before it has done its work, can only exist when the consciousness has buddhic illumination. That is the condition which has been described as the Christ state.

The law is good and the will of the Supreme is perfect, and the suffering works for a perfect end; therefore the disciple is filled with content and satisfaction; he feels the suffering, but of grief and sorrow he feels none at all.

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12 Oct 2020