LIGHT ON THE PATH - 67 : Kill out all sense of separateness - 12

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 67 🌹

🍀 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 - 12 🌻

273. There is another curious little point about that. The things which horrify us most are those to which we have a certain leaning ourselves – from which we are conceivably in danger. When one is absolutely free from the slightest tendency towards a particular crime one looks down on it without horror; but if one feels oneself filled with horror at a particular human failing, he may take it that it is a fault which has been a real danger to himself not long ago – perhaps a life or two back.

274. When we go among evil influences we sometimes have to surround ourselves with a shell in order to keep them off. That is often the best policy, since we are still very human; but to have to do that is to a certain extent a confession of weakness.1 (1 Ante, Vol. I, Part V, Ch. 6: Service.)

The absolutely strong man walks straight into the middle of all these perils, certain that they cannot affect him, but that would not be a wise thing for all of us to do. Our force is limited and by making a shell we can save ourselves from using up a certain amount of it unnecessarily.

A man who is perfectly sure of his own power can walk unharmed among all sorts of dangers, because he is sure of himself. Perfect strength destroys all shrinking. We draw back from a case of infectious disease because we are afraid we may catch it; if we were certain we were immune from that disease the idea of catching it would not occur to us.

275. The idea that we must not think of ourselves as separate from the wicked or the, foolish man does not necessarily imply that we must always be in close association with such people, though contact is sometimes useful. There are many good people who endeavour, in a great city like London, for example, to help the poor by going to live among them in the slums.

Some of our students hold the opinion that that is also our duty with regard to the wicked and the foolish people. That is not always the best way to help them. We may learn from the Masters’ conduct in that respect. The Great Ones do not come down and live in the slums of our great cities.

Why do They not do so? For one reason, They would be unable to carry on Their work for humanity. It would take nearly all the time of the Master to clear a place where He could work at all, and the amount of work done would be reduced to perhaps one hundredth part of what it would otherwise be.

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04 Jan 2021