Theos-Talk Archives (May 2004 Message tt00083)

Hallo Kristas,
I saw it on our new too.
There is only one answer It is the animal in human.
And if he does not se that in him or herself, that kind of instinct 
stays.
All have to do with that, the upbringing and developement of a person.

Light on the path says:
1. Kill out ambition
2.Kill out desire of life
3.kill out desire of comfort.
4. Work as those work who are ambitious.Respect life as those do who 
desire it.Be happy as those are who live for happiness.

Seek in the HEART the source of EVIL and EXPUNGE IT.
It lives fruitfully in the heart of the devoted disciple as well as 
in the heart of the man of desire.
ONLY THE STRONG CAN KILL IT OUT.

The weak must wait for its growth, its fruition, its death.
And it is a plant that lives and increases troughout the ages.
It flowers when the man has accumulated unto himself innumerable 
existences.

He who will enter the path of power must tear this thing out of his 
heart.And then the heart will bleed and the whole life of the man 
seeem to be utterly dissolved.
This ordeal must be endured; it may come at the first step of the 
perilous ladder which leads to the path of life; it may not come 
until the last.
But, O disciple, remember that it has to be endured and fasten the 
energies of your soul upon the task.
Live neighter in the present nor the future, but in Eternal.
This giant weed cannot flower there; this blot upon existence is 
wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.

5. Kill out all sense of separateness.
Note- Do not fancy you can stand aside from the bad man or the 
foolish man. They are yourself,though in a less degree than your 
friend or your master.But if you allow the idea of separateness from 
any evil thing or person to grow up within you, by so doing you 
create KARMA which will bind you to that thing or person till your 
soul recognizesthat it cannot be isolated. 
Remember that the sin and shameof the world are your sin and shame; 
for you are a part of it.; your karma is inextricably interwoven with 
the great Karma.
And before you can attain knowledge you must have passed trough all 
places, foul and clean alike.
Therefore, remember that the soiled garment you shrink from touching 
may have been yours yesterday, maybe yours tomorrow.
And if you turn with horror from it, when it is flung upon your 
shoulders, it will cling the more closely to you.
The self-righteous man makes for himself a bed of mire.
Abstain because it is right to abstain-
not that yourself shall be kept clean.

6. Kill out desire of sensation.

7. Kill out the hunger for growth.

8. Yet stand alone and isolated, because nothing that embodied, 
nothing that is conscious of separation, nothing that is out of 
Eternal, can aid you.
Learn from sensation and observe it, because only so can you commence 
the science of selfknowledge and plant your foot on the first step of 
the ladder.
Grow as the flower grows, unconciuosly, but eagerly anxious to open 
its soul to the air.So must you press forward to open your soul to  
the Eternal that draws forth your strenght and beauty, not desire of 
growth. For the one case you develop in the luxuriance of purity; in 
the other you harden by the forcible passion for personal stature.

9. Desire only that which is within you.

10. Desire only that which is beyond you.

11. Desire only that which is unattainable.

12. For within you is the LIGHT of the world- the only light that can 
be shed upon the path.
If you are unable to perceive it within you, it is useless to look 
for it elsewhere.
It is beyond you, because when you reach it you have lost yourself.
It is unattainable because it for ever recedes.YOU WILL ENTER THE 
LIGHT, but you will never touch the flame.

written down by M.C






--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> wrote:
> Freiends
> Good night.
> I hate politics, but today my theosophical brain got over-chocked  
with the published photos about the abuses and below dignity tortures 
from american soldiers against iraqians.It may sound a primitive 
sensation but I cannot help it.
> Two questions appear in mind: What rights have they to act like 
barbarians against people they always considered fanatic barbarians?
> And second, what are these publications for?
> What do they try to show the world?
> What kind of justice is there for the acts of war?
> We are arrested if we rob, we are arrested if we rape, but in war, 
what is the punishment?!
> Sorry, so many prayings, so many rituals converting and irradiating 
positive and constructive emanations and the world is aways in war or 
preparing for one.
> I picture what it would be of our globe if there weren´t holy 
people watching us, such as bodhisatwas and mahatmas, preachers, 
religious monks and all sorts of people who emit good vibrations...
> Wouldn´t it be worse?
> 
> Krishtar
> 
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