Theos-Talk Archives (July 1998 Message tt00123)

Good points. With all the work HPB did, HPB showed the practical side of
helping others. Two instances come to my mind. One was her exchanging her I
class ticket to a deck so that she could purchase tickets for a young woman
and her children who were stranded at the port by a scam artist and her
donating a couple of shillings (?) to a charitable cause operated by a priest.

....doss


At 12:32 PM 7/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>M K Ramadoss wrote:
>> If one cannot help, get out of the way.
>
>Dear doss:
>Well received comments.  Thanks.
>As a result of the postings on the List, last night my husband got out
>the HPB "bible" and read some passages to me.  Nothing she said was
>different than the majority of comments on the List about compassion,
>ascendency by example.
>One thing that my husband said, that *I* think is *his* interpretation
>of her words, was that, "this brotherhood, this ascended state can only
>be achieved on a higher plane, not here in the physical."
>Did HPB imply this?
>
>If one comes to believe that she meant that, then one would stay "out of
>the way".  One would not believe that help in the physical was possible,
>or that action was even "help".  One would believe it was ego
>satisfaction.  One would come to the conclusion that whatever has to
>happen will happen as part of the larger plan that we have no control
>over.
>
>Interesting?
>
>I understand what you mean by your above statement, but I don't think
>one can "get out of the way".  I think that every circumstance presented
>to one is involvement by default, and that every action manifests the
>future.  In fact, I think that if no-one was able to "get out of the
>way", this whole process would start working again, instead of being
>stalled as it now is generally.
>
>> PS: The analogy I use is this. When you see someone injured on the road,
>> you just stop and help any way you can. I don't try to investigate why and
>> how. May be too simplistic an approach. It has worked for me.
>
>This used to be my approach too, and even as short a time as 15 years
>ago, stopping to help did not generally put the helper in any danger.
>Nowadays one stands just as much chance of being sued for "helping"
>instead of being appreciated.  It's a stress.  The intuitive reaction is
>to simply stop and help.  The brain can list all the reasons why not.
>
>I think *that* internal conflict is why I decided the only way was to
>return to a state of being that included the occult, otherworlds, more
>than the physical.  To be a "help", it seemed to me that one needed to
>be able to see beyond the moment, to glimpse the threads of Karma.
>It's a difficult task.
>Cheers
>Annette