Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00150)

Interesthing subject!
Do you know such person(s) or can you give an example of that?

I think I know one EST'er living that way and you are right; without 
having the Ultimate Reality it is more than painful and a wrong 
experience.
That is why I hate experiences in such way!

Christina


-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" <AnandGholap@A...> 
wrote:
> Person approaching the path of discipleship feels worthlessness of 
> things of the ordinary world and he is not satisfied with them. In 
> this stage, in a sense, he has left ordinary world but has not 
gained 
> knowledge of Ultimate Reality by direct experience. So it is 
painful 
> state. 













However Theosophy greatly helps and reduces sorrow because it 
> explains to the aspirant importance of experiences which made him 
> evolve and brought to a state where he seeks even higher knowledge 
of 
> spiritual things. And when aspirant knows by study of Theosophy 
this 
> gradual process of evolution he becomes certain that same 
> evolutionary process will ineviably take him to Nirvana although 
time 
> taken for it will depend on how wisely he lives his life and 
> cooperate with factors working for evolution. So Theosophy, when 
> understood properly, can reduce pain and sorrow of the aspirant 
> greatly.
> Anand Gholap
> 
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Anand Gholap" 
<AnandGholap@A...> 
> wrote:
> > [ www.AnandGholap.net - Online Books on Theosophy ]
> > " For the Masters are the distributors of the spiritual energies 
> that help on human evolution, and the use of these for the swifter 
> growth of a single soul is only permitted when that soul shows a 
> capacity for rapid progress and can thus be quickly fitted to 
become 
> a helper of the race, returning to it the aid that had been 
afforded 
> to himself. When a man, by his own efforts, utilising to the full 
all 
> the general help coming to him through religion and philosophy, has 
> struggled onwards to the front of the advancing human wave and when 
> he shows a loving, selfless, helpful nature, then he becomes a 
> special object of attention to the watchful Guardians of the race, 
> and opportunities are put in his way to test his strength and call 
> forth his intuition.In proportion as he successfully uses these, he 
> is yet further helped, and glimpses are afforded to him of the true 
> life, until the unsatisfactory and unreal nature of mundane 
existence 
> presses more and more on the soul, with the result already 
mentioned –
> the weariness which makes him long for freedom and brings him to 
the 
> gateway of the probationary Path. 
> > 664. His 
> entrance on his Path places him in the position of a disciple or 
> chelâ, on probation, and some one Master takes him under His care, 
> recognising him as a man who has stepped out of the highway of 
> evolution, and seeks the Teacher who shall guide his steps along 
the 
> steep and narrow path which leads to liberation. 
> > 
> > 665.  
That 
> Teacher is awaiting him at the very entrance of the Path, and even 
> though the neophyte knows not his Teacher, his Teacher knows him, 
> sees his efforts, directs his steps, leads him into the conditions 
> that best subserve his progress, watching over him with the tender 
> solicitude of a mother, and with the wisdom born of perfect 
insight. 
> The road may seem lonely and dark, and the young disciple may fancy 
> himself deserted, but a "friend who sticketh closer than a brother" 
> is ever at hand, and the help withheld from the senses is given to 
> the soul. 
> > 
> > 666.  
There 
> are four definite "qualifications" that the probationary chelâ must 
> set himself to acquire, that are by the wisdom of the great 
> Brotherhood laid down as the conditions of full discipleship. They 
> are not asked for in perfection, but they must be striven for and 
> partially possessed ere Initiation is permitted.The first of these 
is 
> the discrimination between the real and the unreal which has been 
> already dawning on the mind of the pupil, and which drew him to the 
> Path on which he is now entered; the distinctions grows clear and 
> sharply defined in his mind, and gradually frees him to a great 
> extent from the fetters which bind him, for the second 
qualification, 
> indifference to external things, comes naturally in the wake of 
> discrimination, from the clear perception of their worthlessness. " 
> > 
> > Complet book can be read at
> > 
> > http://www.anandgholap.net/Ancient_Wisdom-AB.htm