LIGHT ON THE PATH - 93 : Desire peace fervently. The peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb. - 3

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 93 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 7 - THE 14th RULE

🌻 14. Desire peace fervently. The peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb. - 3 🌻

359. People do not in the least realize what they are doing when they destroy these things, as they so often do. I constantly see boys and girls who belong perhaps to ordinary parents, but are themselves quite promising; if they were taken in hand and brought along in the right way, they would make distinct progress in this life.

But their surroundings are utterly unsuited for such development and all the finer growth is lopped off and beaten back, and they go through life as quite ordinary people. I have seen cases where the same thing happened over and over again in as many as perhaps fifteen or twenty lives; the progress that might have been made in the first case was not made until the twentieth.

Probably the accumulated karma of living a little better in a quiet way in each of those lives made it necessary at last that the ego should be given better surroundings, and then he got his opportunity. But so far as we can see that same development could just as well have been made twenty lives before, if only the environment had been a little better.

360. It is a sad thing for the people who repress those delicate touches. I suppose there is no greater crime f than the repression of those who are trying to make progress.

361. Many people commit this crime against themselves as well as against their children. They do not give the higher part of themselves an opportunity to grow.

Children are often able to see nature-spirits and other beautiful things which older people cannot see. There is no reason why the older people should not see them also, if their sensitiveness had not been destroyed by the sort of life into which they have so often been plunged.

Sometimes later on in life with great difficulty they begin to recover the power, not only of clairvoyance, but also the power to appreciate all that is artistic and beautiful, all the subtle shades of feeling and perception that mean culture and real education.

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04 Feb 2021