LIGHT ON THE PATH - 61 : Kill out all sense of separateness - 6

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 61 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 5 - THE 5th RULE

🌻 5. Kill out all sense of separateness - 6 🌻

256. It is only after the buddhic body is fully developed on all the seven sub-planes that the man has the full fruition of the whole plane, a complete power of identification with the whole of humanity, so that he can learn through that relation what all these people think and feel.

Before that buddhic consciousness is gained we may labour to reduce the sense of separateness and it may be done with great success intellectually, but we still remain outside, in the sense of not understanding others. They will still be an absolute mystery, for man is the greatest of mysteries to his fellow-man.

We may come into very close relations with people for quite a long time, and yet not really know them inside. It may be that until the buddhic level is reached no man ever really knows any other man thoroughly.1 (1 Ante., Vol. II, p. 67.) When a man reaches that condition he is able to pour himself down into the consciousness of others and see what they do and why they act in that particular way. There all things are within him instead of outside, and he studies them as parts of himself. It sounds impossible down here, but that is something of what he feels.

All the joy of the world is his joy; its suffering is his suffering. When he chooses to put himself down through any one of the million tentacles – the consciousnesses of other people with which he is one – then he can and does experience all which that person is experiencing. In this way all the world’s suffering is within his reach, but he knows with absolute certainty that it is a necessary part of the plan and has no existence on those higher levels.

He is in no way less sympathetic with it, yet he knows that “Brahman is Bliss”, and that to be one with the divine is a state of perpetual inner joy. It is only when one gains that development that one can fully help others.

257. When a man touches that consciousness he has for a time withdrawn from these lower physical levels where he can be perturbed or upset, and he is himself part of the divine joy. When he comes back again into his mental, astral and physical bodies he may permit little troubles to annoy him.

This ought not to be so; but still there is a great gap between the higher life and that lived in the physical body, where small things can still be very irritating. The possibility of being momentarily annoyed by something on the physical plane remains even when a very high level has been reached, but it is then merely superficial. The things from which people really suffer in this world are those which they feel to be hopeless.

No one can ever have any feeling of hopelessness after he has touched that higher consciousness, because when we are absolutely certain that the reality is always joy, we know that all suffering at lower levels is only temporary, and that even that would not come to us if we were nearer to perfection.

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25 Dec 2020