🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀
✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
CHAPTER 10 - THE Note on 20th RULE
🌻 20. Seek it by testing all experiences - 4 🌻
484. Suppose such persons did not exist; there would be no link between humanity and the Great Ones. They preserve a link, and in Their perfect purity They feel in Themselves the sufferings of others. This stage comes immediately before that of the Master; it is the last stage of the Arhat.
A Master cannot suffer pain, His consciousness is so perfect; He can image past experiences without suffering. The experience is to Him a perfect image, without pain. But in the advanced condition of the stage before that, though the man cannot sin, and the personality is pure, it yet transmits a sense of suffering.
485. In exoteric books this stage is sometimes confused with that of the Masters, and a feeling of suffering is attributed to Them. It is in the stage before that that there is suffering, where those in the stage of Arhatship are sharing the work of the Master, without having lost the susceptibility of feeling pain.
The Master transcends all suffering. The Arhats take part in building the “guardian wall”, but they build it with pain. People are apt to apply to the Master what is true of higher disciples only, who are still in a stage where sin is transcended, though the power to suffer is left.
486. At the lower level we may sympathize with friends until we lose all sense of difference, and we must suffer if we sympathize thus deeply. Until ahamkara is transcended sympathy and suffering must go hand in hand. If we go out of this stage too soon we lose our power of sympathy; that is one of the temptations on the Path.
Great Ones fall back even when they have reached the last stage, because if they lose suffering altogether, they lose sympathy, and if sympathy is not perfect, the wall of separateness is not thrown down.
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02 Apr 2021
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