LIGHT ON THE PATH - 116 : Seek it not by any one road. - 9

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 116 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 8 - THE 20th RULE

🌻 20. Seek it not by any one road. - 9 🌻

442. It is not difficult to understand how the vehicles are for their “own use”. As we advance we rise above the bondage of each vehicle manifesting outwardly, and learn to use it only for the higher work, without any consideration of self. Doing this as far’ as the physical body is concerned should be the disciple’s daily practice.

The physical body must be mastered so that it cannot throw its own reflection upon you; it exists only for you to use, and you must learn to control it completely, so that it cannot compel you to attend to any experience that you do not want.

It should be only an instrument for use; you are training it to hand on its experience to the ego. There will come a time when you no longer want to hand on any experience at all; then the “I” takes what it wants for its own purpose. This is a high condition to reach, for it is the stage of the Adept.

443. In The Secret Doctrine it is said that a Master’s body is illusory. That means only that the physical body cannot affect or disturb Him. The forces playing around cannot influence Him through it, except in so far as He allows them; they cannot throw Him off His centre.

H.P.B. has also said that a Master’s physical body is a mere vehicle. It hands nothing on, but is simply a point of contact with the physical plane, a body kept as an instrument needed for the work He does, and dropped when done with.

The same thing is true of the astral and mental bodies. When the causal body becomes an instrument only, the individuality perishes, atma having acquired the power of manifesting its third aspect on the mental plane at will, and no longer needing a permanent vehicle thereon.

444. C.W.L. – This statement seems at first sight to contradict some of the earlier ones. For example, we were told to kill out desire – to kill out various parts of ourselves. It is said in The Voice of the Silence that the pupil must learn to slay the lunar form1 (1 Ante., Vol. I, Part I, Ch. 2: Initiation and the approach thereto. Vol. II, p, 128.) at will – to get rid of his astral body. The words “at will” give us the key to the expression.

We must not destroy the astral body, because if we did so we should become monsters, with great mental development but without any sympathy. Many people find emotion a great trouble to them because it overwhelms them, but they must try not to destroy it, but to purify and control it. It must be a force which we can use and not something which overwhelms us.

We must not kill it out, because without it we could never understand emotion in others, and we could therefore never help people who are along that line; but it must be refined and all self must be weeded out from it.

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08 Mar 2021