🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 83 🌹
🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀
✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
CHAPTER 7 - THE 13th RULE
🌻 13. Desire power ardently. - 1 🌻
331. C.W.L. – The comment of the Chohan on this is:
332. And that power which the disciple shall covet is that which shall make him appear as nothing in the eyes of men.
333. The power that makes us appear as nothing in the eyes of men is the power of self-effacement in the work – of doing it without wanting any credit for it. Many people want to be in the forefront. That is often regarded as merely a sort of harmless vanity, but it means that they have not yet forgotten the lower self.
334. The disciple does not seek credit for anything he does; he seeks to get the work done and so long as it is done he cares not at all whether he or somebody else has the credit for having done it. If he has to put himself forward and draw people round him he does so, but not because he wants the credit of it. He knows it is always far better to keep in the background if possible.
335. It is always best not to think of results at all, but to do the best we can and forget ourselves. All occult teaching leads back to that one fundamental fact – forget the lower self and get to work.
Some people are constantly thinking of their own progress. It is at least better to think of making spiritual progress than to desire worldly wealth, but it is still selfishness, only in a more refined form. My own experience would lead me to say that the very best way to get on is to forget all about one’s own progress and simply devote oneself to the Master’s work.
If one does that the rest will follow. It is the old truth stated “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” That is utterly true; these other things come. When we are not looking for progress we suddenly find that we have really made some, and that also is well.
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22 Jan 2021
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