LIGHT ON THE PATH - 39 : Kill out desire of life - Respect life as those do who desire it - 1

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 39 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 4 - THE 2nd RULE

🌻 Kill out desire of life - Respect life as those do who desire it - 1 🌻

179. A.B. – We have already to some extent considered this aphorism and the next. The same general principles that apply to the killing out of ambition yet the working as those do who are ambitious apply to these two aphorisms also.

The disciple must get rid of the desire for personal life – everything which energizes the personal self and responds to the gratification of his personal desire. He must no longer rejoice in the mere pleasure of expanding his own life by taking into it more and more of the outside things.

180. All over the world men are to be seen in eager search for a fuller life; they grasp it with many varieties of greed, struggling and fighting for more and more of everything that appeals to their hot and untutored imaginations, and thereby bringing about great quantities of personal and social trouble.

But the disciple must get rid of that desire to increase and expand, his own individual and separate life. He must enter into the higher Life, and have only the desire to be wherever in the universe he is wanted at any time as an expression of the one life. There are many things to do in this universe.

When all desire for separate individual life has been transcended, and all personal preferences are gone, the need of the time guides the choice of the spiritual man.

Wherever help is wanted is the place of work for such a liberated soul; he cares only to be an instrument, wherever the instrument may be wanted. His life is to him only useful and valuable as it is part of the Universal Life.

181. The man who has lost his desire of life arrives at a point of danger – he may regard life as worthless for all, because the things that it offers are worthless to him.

He may take up an attitude of contempt towards the world and his fellow-men. He may look down upon and despise them; as foolish people, may speak of them contemptuously, and consider their motives paltry. That attitude towards them is very natural, but it is full of danger, and fundamentally evil.

It shows that he has not realized the Self, though he may have realized the non-self as such. If he looks down upon any life, however Undeveloped, he forgets that that manifestation is apart of Ishvara, and to him therefore the message is necessary and urgent: “Respect life-as those who desire it.”

182. If he asks why he ought to look upon it with respect, the answer is: because it is divine. It, is a stage in which Ishvara is working, a stage which to Ishvara is quite as important as the higher stage in which he now is.

When we speak of high and low we speak from the standpoint of evolution and time – the succession of changes which make up time. That is not the way in which Ishvara regards His world; to Him there is nothing great nor small, hateful nor dear.

Everything is at a stage on a road on which all are travelling to the same goal; the lowly is just as necessary for the scheme of evolution as the form we usually call higher. So the disciple must not fall into the blunder of despising: and disregarding any life, because it is in what we call a low stage of evolution.

Each thing in its place is right and good. The recognition of that fundamental truth means that a man must love his fellow-men, must learn to care for them as part of the Universal Life in evolution.

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30 Nov 2020