Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00799)

Friends, 

The end of another year makes one think about the passing of Time. 

What is the final assessment one can do about 2006 in one's life? 

Is it the time which passes, or is it one's life that does so,  and the time is in itself eternal and it stands  undisturbed?  

Does the time passes in one's life, or do one's life pass through time? 

And is one using one's life time in a correct and effective way?

An article in the ULT magazine "The Theosophical Movement" says:

"Procrastination has been well called 'the thief of time,' for it is of the quality of Tamas, indifference or darkness, which, as Krishna tells Arjuna in Chapter Fourteen of the Bhagavad-Gita, 'is the deluder of all creatures...it imprisoneth the Ego in a body through heedless folly, sleep, and idleness'. "

The text goes on: 
"Those who have had the good Karma of being favourably situated to study Theosophy are especially unwise, from the standpoint of their own interest, if they procrastinate. If they do so, they let slip the opportunity which they must have earned, in this life or in previous ones, and who knows whether they may not be thereby postponing the recurrence of such a chance for spiritual growth and service? Such postponement may not only retard their own progress but also that of the Cause of Theosophy and of those whom their example of faithful study and practice of the Theosophical teachings might have led to emulate it."

And still: 

In 'The Great Master's Letter,' published as No. 33 of the U.L.T. Pamphlet Series, He had written that there was 'hardly a Theosophist in the whole Society unable to help it effectually by correcting erroneous impressions of outsiders, if not by actually propagating the ideas himself '. "

See more at TTM magazine for  August 2003 at 

http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7310time.html 


Best regards,   Carlos. 


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