LIGHT ON THE PATH - 103 : Seek out the way - 5

 

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 103 🌹

🍀 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 - 5 🌻

396. Looking at it from a higher standpoint, there is but one thing that decides our choice, and that is the necessity of the world at the time. Where a place is empty, where help is needed – there are the things which decide the choice. 

Out of the different ways before him, the purified soul will go where help is wanted. Self-determined, he takes that course where help is needed by the Hierarchy, for the expression of the Will of the Logos. I was told by a Great One that it was a blunder to think that choice could be made at all down here; that the choice is always made to give the help which is wanted for the expression of the Will of the Logos.

397. One group of workers stands for help in the world. Only when re-inforcement is needed amongst Them, only when a channel is wanted, would the choice turn to the world’s work. I have emphasized this because it was given as a warning to myself, not to let my thoughts turn from useful activity to other lines of work not yet given us to do. In the Bhagavad Gita we are warned that the dharma of another is full of danger – our work lies where our dharma lies.

398. C.W.L. – The path which leads out of all human experience is the path of the Adept, which opens up before Him with a choice of seven ways, as we have already seen. 

I have heard many members say: “Oh, of course there is no question at all about what we should choose; we should remain to serve humanity.” It is wiser not to waste our strength in such decisions, because as a matter of fact we do not know anything about it. It is like a little boy making up his mind what he will do when he is a man. He wants to be a pirate or an engine-driver. 

We know as little now about the conditions that will determine our choice as the little child does of those which will determine his future. No one of the seven paths can possibly be in itself more desirable than another, though they all lead to work of different kinds.

399. Quite surely the idea that will be most prominent when the time of choice comes will be: “Where can I be of most use?” What we might perhaps safely prophesy of our action is that we shall say: “Here am I, Lord; send me wherever help is most wanted.” 

But even so it may well be that as we unfold we shall develop some special aptitude for one or other of these lines, and thus it will be obviously best for the whole system that we should be used in the line where we can do most good.

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17 Feb 2021