LIGHT ON THE PATH - 134 : 20. do you enter into a partnership of joy, which brings indeed terrible toil and profound sadness, but also a great and ever-increasing delight. - 3

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 134 🌹

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

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 10 - THE Note on 20th RULE

🌻 20. do you enter into a partnership of joy, which brings indeed terrible toil and profound sadness, but also a great and ever-increasing delight. - 3 🌻

That is only natural, but at the same time one does feel that many of them might take up the new ideas a little more quickly, and it is certain that things of this sort do spread in a definite sort of ratio. One man can state a view and make a little impression; ten men can make more than ten times the impression; a hundred men can make vastly more than a hundred times the impression that one man could, unless he happened to be a rare genius.

We have some thirty thousand members in our Society; I think if all of them were really taking this higher philosophical view of life, and were thereby obviously avoiding a great amount of suffering, they would form a powerful and striking example. In that way we could help a vast number who as yet do not know anything about the higher side of things.

509. When we begin to see that what is being done is always the best – the best under the circumstances for everybody – our sorrow is no longer of the same kind as before. We are just as sympathetic towards others, but we are no longer overwhelmed by their suffering; we sympathize with them but do not share their feelings. The Masters are profoundly sympathetic with people who are suffering, and yet we could not say that They Themselves share in that suffering, because of Their insight.

As I have said before, a Master is never sad, never depressed. It has seemed to me sometimes, however, as though even They could be disappointed with people. I do not know that I ought to say even as much as that, but I know this, that They make very strong efforts sometimes to bring about certain results, and yet those results, through the failure of Their instruments, are not brought about. I do not know whether They foresee from the beginning that those efforts will fail.

I cannot but feel that in many cases They do, but yet They make them precisely as though They expected them to succeed. For example, much work was done before the great war in an attempt to avoid it. That effort failed, but whether the Adepts who inaugurated it knew from the beginning that such would be the result I do not know: They worked at it as though They expected it to be successful.

510. Madame Blavatsky in many cases offered people opportunities in a similar way. Sometimes she made every endeavour to persuade them to take them, when she knew from the beginning that they would not do so. I well remember one occasion on which some people came to her to make enquiries. They seemed to me obviously unsuited for any Theosophic knowledge or -work, since they were not at all in the frame of mind in which it would be of use to them. She spoke to these mere casual strangers, and told them about quite intimate things which she hoped to do in the Society.

They were rather sneering people, who did not seem in the least worthy of such confidence, and when they went away the Countess Wachtmeister said: “Madame, why did you tell those people these things? It seems certain they are not the sort of people to whom it would do any good. They will only go away and sneer, and perhaps do us harm.” Madame Blavatsky replied: “Well, my dear, some karma has brought them to me, and I must give them their chance, and do all I can for them.”

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14 Apr 2021