LIGHT ON THE PATH - 80 : 10. Desire only that which is beyond you. - It is beyond you, because when you reach it you have lost yourself. - 1

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 80 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 6 - THE 10th RULE

🌻 10. Desire only that which is beyond you. - It is beyond you, because when you reach it you have lost yourself. - 1 🌻

321. C.W.L. – “He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

That happens over and over again at various stages. Consider the man of the world living his ordinary life, which is very largely a life in his emotions – in some cases in quite the lower emotions.

As soon as he begins to understand the higher side of things he realizes that there is something higher and nobler than that. But he finds also that unless he is willing to put aside that lower and coarser life, he cannot really grasp the higher; he must lose the lower in order that he may gain the higher.

322. At the next step the man comes to live in his mind to a large extent. He realizes that to be swept about by tides of passion is, after all, ignoble, and that the mind should select and dominate the emotions and allow only such as it approves, for the sake of progress.

Presently he gets beyond that, and finds that the mind also is not fully satisfactory, but that there is a higher life than that of the mind. So gradually he begins to live in the ego, and to look at everything from that standpoint, which is a very great advance.

But eventually even that is not enough for him. He realizes that there is a unity which lies beyond that stage, and so he begins to have some experience of the buddhic plane, and when he touches that nothing below it will ever again satisfy him.

323. Even that wonderful buddhic consciousness will, in its turn, be transcended. Beyond it is the consciousness of the atmic plane – nirvana. Above and beyond that again is the Monad.

Those who are not yet Adepts see the Monad manifesting as a triple spirit on the plane below its own, but on the attainment of Adeptship the Monad and the ego will have become one, and they will be conscious as the Monad – the Divine Spark.

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18 Jan 2021