LIGHT ON THE PATH - 98 : Desire possessions above all. - 2

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 98 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 7 - THE 15th RULE

🌻 15. Desire possessions above all. - 2 🌻

375. All these forces thrown out from the man must recoil upon him so long as he projects them from himself in that way. However, every man has an interior connection with the Deity which is not through any of these concentric spheres, but through the centre itself.

By turning within he can reach the Logos himself, and so long as he sends all the force of his thought and desire in that way, it is not reflected back to him at all, but goes to reinforce the great outwelling of divine power which the Deity is always sending through His universe, by which He keeps it alive.

His force wells up in the centre; it does not come from without. If we look at a number of physical atoms clairvoyantly we shall see some drawing in force and others pouring it out. They must receive that force from somewhere. It does not go in at one side and out at the other; it wells up in the centre apparently from nowhere but is in reality coming from some higher dimension which we cannot see.

Thus the communication with God lies in the very heart of things, and the man who turns his eyes always upon the Deity, and thinks only of Him in the work that he is doing, pours all his force along that line. It disappears so far as he is concerned but, as I said before, goes to reinforce the divine strength which is always being outpoured everywhere.

There is no personal result for the man on lower planes, but with every such effort he draws nearer to the divine Truth within him – becomes a better and fuller expression of it and so it would not be true to say that he obtains no result. In a universe of law nothing could be without result, but there is no outward result such as would bring him back to earth.

376. That, I think, is what is meant when it is said that the Great Ones escape from the law of karma. They spend the whole of Their mighty spiritual force upon doing good in the name of humanity and as units of humanity, and so They escape from the binding of the law.

“Whatever result there is comes to humanity, not to Them. The karma of all the glorious actions of the Master is not held back that He may receive the result; it goes to humanity as a whole.

377. It is in that spirit of impersonality that we also should perform action. If we do anything, even a good action, thinking: “I am doing this; I want the credit of this,” or even if we do not think of receiving the credit for it, but only think: “am doing this,” like the Pharisees of old, we shall have our reward. The result will come back to the personal self, and it will bind us back to earth just as surely as though it were an evil result.

But if we have forgotten the personal self altogether and are acting merely as part of humanity, it is to the humanity of which each is a part that the result of the action will come. The more truly we can act without thought of self the nearer we shall be drawing to the divine heart of things. That is how the Logos Himself looks upon everything.

There could be no thought of self for Him; He acts always for the good of the whole and as representing the whole. If we act thinking only of Him, then the result will flow out in His divine force and will not come to us as anything that will bind, but rather as something which will make us a greater and greater expression of Him, and will raise us more and more into the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

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11 Feb 2021