Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00583)

>I don't have a mandate to liberate people from 
> darkness.

What is your duty or approach you know and you are free to decide 
that. Each person has different role and duties in this world. 

> > When negative side is shown you don't like it. Facts are facts. 
Let 
> > us face them.
> 
> Why negative? Negative according to whom? Are you saying that 
> Blavatsky's personal traits (smoking, swearing, non-vegetarian 
diet, 
> etc) were negative? 

One more trait you forgot to mention and it is power to make people 
dogmatic and fundamentalist.


> > Thanks for Annie Besant's wise passages. They support my views 
and 
> > show how ridiculous dogma is.
> 
> Before you stay with your own conclusion, please read again what 
> Besant wrote: "But no one in the TS has any authority to lay down 
> what people shall think, or not think, on any subject." 
Do you think this passage doesn't apply also to you?

I don't tell people what they should and should not think. Of course 
I am free to express opinion about what should be done and what 
should not be. Others are free to accept or reject.

> to her who had shown them the path to a deeper understanding, to 
what 
> really matters in life: a self-effacing dedication to the spiritual 
> good of humanity as a whole. But, who knows, all this could only be 
> just my own projections.

I never said we should be ungrateful. Showing faults does not mean 
ungratefulness. Only those who can understand both plus and minus 
points can wisely carry on Theosophical work, otherwise it becomes 
ISKON style devotional sect where people keep on worshipping deities.

Anand Gholap