LIGHT ON THE PATH - 42 : Kill out desire of life - Respect life as those do who desire it - 4

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 42 🌹

🍀 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 - 4 🌻

190. As soon as a man feels unity he gains the dispassionate view of things. All lines of work are then, in effect, the same to him – not that he can equally easily take up all, but he sees that, they all lead to the same point. The undeveloped man never understands this.

Always he thinks that the man taking the, higher standpoint is cold and hard and unsympathetic; that is because the lower man is thinking of himself and is wanting all sorts of personal satisfactions, whereas the other man is thinking only of the work to be done and is putting all his energy; into that.

When once the Plan of work of the Logos dawns upon a man’s horizon he sees that to the exclusion of every thing else, and throws his energies into it, and whatever is best for that work he tries to do, even as regards the smallest detail of every-day life.

191. He hitches his wagon to a star. He puts before himself ideals very high and very remote from the ordinary understanding, and it is quite inevitable that the people who still look on things from the personal point of view will misunderstand him. If he suffers because of that misunderstanding, there is still a little personal touch in that; he still wants to be understood, but even that he must give up.

He must give up hoping that his efforts will be appreciated, and realize that it does not matter whether they are appreciated or not. All that matters is that the work shall be done. If people will not give us credit for our work, no matter; let it be done as perfectly as possible.

We shall have the appreciation of the Master – that much is sure – but even that must not be our reason for doing it. Our reason for doing it is that it is God’s work and as we are one with Him what He wills is our will, what He would have done it is our highest pleasure and privilege to try to do.

192. When we realize that all Life is divine Life, of course we shall respect all the manifestations of it. We, who see partially, do not always respect life in all its forms and in all its manifestations.

We see that many of them would be eminently undesirable for us, and therefore there is a tendency to regard those particular manifestations with contempt. That is always a mistake. We see a great deal around us which from our point of view is going very wrong, and often it really is going wrong.

All the expressions of selfishness and greed and uncontrolled desire that we see in the world are certainly wrong in the sense that it would be very much better if they were different. It is not at all a mistake for us to think that, because it is a fact; but when we allow ourselves to feel contempt for the people who are at that stage, we are going further than we have any right to go.

Their state of development accounts for these manifestations, and they are very often the only expressions possible for them at that stage, and it is through them that they will learn.

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03 Dec 2020