The Path of Discipleship: Four Lectures Delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, at Adyar, Madras, December 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1895Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896 - 150 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 67 - ... precept of Those Who have gone before. Books tell of the difficulties in the way and the methods to be used in overcoming them. Bhagavad Gita, Light on the Path, The Voice of the Silence, The Path of Discipleship, and The Outer Court are recommended. Mrs. Besant's words are here most instructive: "How shall a man build ,himself into purity? By, in his morning meditation, taking purity as part of the subject on which he thinks, realizing what it means. No impurity of thought must ever touch him;...
الصفحة 72 - Teacher stands waiting till the do-r be opened in order that He may cross the threshold and illuminate the mind. Do you say: How do They know among the myriads of men one soul that works for Them and makes itself fit for Their coming? The answer was once given in the form of a picture; that as a man standing on a mountain-top looking over the adjacent valley sees a light in a single cottage because the light shines out against the surrounding darkness, so does the soul that has made itself ready...
الصفحة 69 - ... he will strive to lighten it. He will live compassion as well as think it, and so make it part of his character. So with Fortitude. He will think of the nobility of the strong man, the man whom no outer circumstances can depress or elate, the man who is not joyful over success nor miserable...
الصفحة 59 - I see not a stable foundation for it, owing to restlessness; For the mind is verily restless, O Krishna; it is impetuous, strong and difficult to bend; I deem it as hard to curb as the wind.
الصفحة 73 - ... the disciple and what may really be done by him: but let me leave you this morning with this thought in your minds: that the Teacher is watching, is waiting, is desiring to find you, desiring to teach you: that you have the power to draw Him to you, that only you can let Him come. He may knock at...
الصفحة 72 - They may not break down the doors and come in by force. If a man choose his own way and if he lock the doors, none other may turn the key; we are locked up by worldly desire; we are locked up by grasping after the things of the earth ; we are locked up with the keys of sin and indifference and sloth ; and the Teacher stands waiting till the door be opened in order that He may cross the threshold and illuminate the mind.
الصفحة 85 - The Karma that would have spread over hundreds of lives will have to be passed through in a few, perhaps in one, and so naturally the path is difficult to tread. Family troubles come round the man, business troubles press upon him, troubles of mind and of body assail him...
الصفحة 5 - But sometimes men have said to me when discussing these lofty topics: "What bearing have these on the life of men in the world, surrounded as we are with the necessities of life, surrounded as we are with the activities of the phenomenal world, continually drawn away from the thought of the one Self, continually forced by our Karma to take part in these multifarious activities ? What bearing then has the higher teaching on the •t:a...
الصفحة 91 - This expansion of consciousness is the note as it were of Initiation, for this expansion of consciousness gives what is called " the key of knowledge"; it opens up to the Initiate new vistas of knovvlege and of power, it places within his hand the key which unlocks the doors of nature.
الصفحة 9 - ... why should men go wrong so much before they go right, why should they run after the evil that degrades them instead of following the good that would ennoble them...