LIGHT ON THE PATH - 100 : Seek out the way - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 100 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 7 - THE 15th RULE

🌻 17. Seek out the way - 2 🌻

384. The force is poured through him in order that he may disseminate it, but he is not expected to be a mere machine in its distribution. He does lend to it something of himself, something of his own colouring; that is intended and expected, but it must be in perfect harmony with the Master’s attitude and feeling. That is possible because the pupil becomes one with the Master in a very wonderful way, as I have explained in The Masters and the Path.1 (1 Op. cit., Ch. V.) 

It is not only that all that is in the consciousness of the pupil is also in the consciousness of the Master, but that everything that takes place in the presence of the pupil is also in the Master’s consciousness – not necessarily when it is happening, unless He chooses, but quite certainly within His memory. 

If the Master happens to be busily engaged in some of His higher work for the moment, it does not necessarily follow that He is attending to a conversation which the pupil is carrying on at the time; but we have startling evidence that sometimes He may be, because occasionally He interjects a thought or a remark, and corrects something that is being said.

385. As I have explained elsewhere, any feeling which the pupil allows himself to have will react upon the Master; if it were such a feeling as annoyance or anger, the Master would shut it out in a moment; naturally the pupil does not want to give Him the trouble of doing that, though, perhaps, if one may say it with all reverence, it is not a very great trouble. Possibly the Master does this very quickly, in a single thought, but yet one does not wish to cause even that trifling interruption of His work.

386. Naturally also the pupil wants to avoid the shutting off of himself which necessarily happens at the same time: therefore he tries, as far as he may, to prevent any undesirable thought or feeling from entering his consciousness. He would keep away from a noisy crowd or from any place with exceedingly bad magnetism, unless he had to go there to do the Master’s work. 

In that case he would put a shell round himself and see that no unpleasantness reached the Master. Still, purely physical things in the consciousness of the pupil are also in the consciousness of the Master. If, for example, the pupil is startled by a sudden sound, it gives him a little shock. 

That little shock is communicated to the Master. He cares nothing for it; He puts it aside, but the fact remains that it is communicated, and that shows how close is the tie. A pupil who is wise tries to avoid any kind of shock; he is generally rather a gentle and quiet sort of person, for that reason.

387. It is one of the distinguishing marks of the pupil that he never forgets his Master, or the presence of his Master. So he does not allow within himself, if he can help it, except by inadvertence, any thought or feeling that he does not want recorded in the Master’s thought or feeling, and he even tries to avoid, as far as may be, exterior disturbances which might also be of a kind that would cause him to be temporarily shut off.


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13 Feb 2021