LIGHT ON THE PATH - 84 : Desire power ardently. - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 84 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 7 - THE 13th RULE

🌻 13. Desire power ardently. - 2 🌻

336. When a man first sees what life in the causal body is really like he also realizes how very useful he could be at that level, how many lines there are along which his activity could pour itself out, and he may well be disposed to ask: “Is it not better that I should do this new and splendid work which I see opening before me?” 

I have myself made a practice of seeking the advice or wish of the Master whenever what seemed to be grand opportunities opened up, and yet there was a possibility that it might be even better still to renounce them. I would say: “Master, what do you wish me to do?” Often His reply would be: “It is a matter for you to decide.” 

Then one can only use one’s own best judgment. No rule can be laid down in such cases. I should still be disposed to try the higher; but it must be remembered that we are cautioned again and again: 

“Do not let desire for your own development stand in the way of any useful work that you can do. Your development will come in due course.” I have always followed that plan, and I think-that it is the safest attitude.

337. Through the work done in that spirit of self-forgetful-ness we gain the power which shall make us appear as nothing in the eyes of men. Let us, if necessary, welcome humiliation because it all helps to put the personality out of sight and that is what is most needed. 

When opportunities come, we must take them, but always we should think: “It is not my work; it is the Master’s work.” It does not matter which of those who follow the Master has the privilege of doing any particular piece Of work for Him. Our business is to watch that we may lose no opportunity of doing any part of His work.

338. We should understand that there is nothing small or great in His work, but that anything, however small, done and offered to Him is as important in His sight as that which is a far greater achievement in the world’s eyes. We are a little apt to want to do what we think is the greater work. 

That is because we do not see that all parts of the\work are equally necessary. Realize for a moment how He must look down upon the whole from His stupendous elevation of wider power and knowledge. All these pieces of work will look very tiny, but all fit into their places.

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23 Jan 2021