LIGHT ON THE PATH - 50 : Kill out desire of comfort. - Be happy as those are who live for happiness. - 7

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 50 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 4 - THE 3rd RULE

🌻 Kill out desire of comfort. - Be happy as those are who live for happiness. - 7 🌻

220. One may say that it is very difficult to do that, if other people are aggressive or insulting. But is it not obvious that the effect produced by the insulting and aggressive attitude depends upon the way in which it is met? If we allow ourselves to be affected by it, a great deal of disturbance is set up.

We on our side show something of the same nature, and to the onlooker it would seem that some of that aggression is justified. But if we are perfectly calm, the man who abuses us puts himself in the wrong, and the outsider can see that we are not in the wrong.

Of course, we should not remain calm in order to appear in the right, but we should adopt a philosophical attitude, because we do not feel these attempts to attack us or to interfere with us; and thus we can be happy.

221. That seems a sort of negative happiness, to avoid pain or suffering. We can do a great deal more than that; we who are trying to live according to the precepts of occultism – students of the inner life – must be doing something of the world’s work.

Assuredly no one can see the Plan of the Logos, and the work that is to be done to carry out that Plan, without trying to do as much as he can for it, and the fact that he is engaged in that work keeps a man busy and happy.

We should have no time for depression, no time to worry about all these outer things. If we are all the time busily engaged in pouring out’ good thought, in sending strong wishes, strong currents of goodwill to all around us, we are fully occupied, and are happy in the work itself.

222. It is sad to see the way in which people all about us are constantly talking about doing things “to pass the time”.

They do this or that for the sake of having something to do. It is both ludicrous and pitiable, because the world is full of opportunities to do good and noble deeds, and these people are not even looking for the opportunities.

They are just trying somehow or other to amuse themselves, that they may get through the time – a most extraordinary attitude to take.

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14 Dec 2020