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Re: Theos-World things seem hopeless

Jul 22, 1999 07:12 AM
by Andrew Basler


clint mccray wrote:

Blavatsky stated in the key that life on the whole, for most, is
sorrow.  She also stated that to us this life, each individual
incarnation seems an eternity.  And finally, that this is the
punishment interval of the soul's cycle, devachan being the restful and
good time.

Are you telling me that the goal is to completely disassociate with
pain, with select feelings?  To tell myself this is some grand
illusion, and I need not be troubled by my neighbor's plight, nor my
own?  When HPB herself said we are meant to suffer in this nighttime of
the soul.  Do the greater mystics let go of feeling altogether?  How
can there be compassion without involvement, empathy without pain?
Suffering inherent in the phenomenal world is a fact, cessation of this suffering is another fact. The first is transient and due to our ignorantly seeking security and happiness in the impermanent and acting as if we had already found it.

The goal is to realize the Truth for the benefit of humanity. When we succeed in identifying our consciousness with higher Self, permanent love consciousness and knowledge of things mundane and supra-mundane will be natural accompaniments.

The Adept is indeed dead to the world; he is oblivious of its pleasures, careless of its miseries, in so far as sentimentalism goes, for the stern sense of Duty never leaves him blind to its very existence. In words of one of HPB's teachers: "It is . . . the business of 'magic' to humanise our natures with compassion for the whole mankind as all living beings, instead of concentrating and limiting our affections to one predilected race.....human and purely individual personal feelings -- blood-ties and friendship, patriotism and race predilection -- all will give away, to become blended into one universal feeling, the only true and holy, the only unselfish and Eternal one -- Love, an Immense Love for humanity -- as a Whole"

I am not complaining, just trying to make sense of it all, I know there
is no one to blame, I just want some direction, I just want to know
what the heck I'm supposed to do in this crazy world!

Your concern of what appears to you as unreasonable suffering of others is noble and there is nothing wrong with inquiring of its cause provided you do not allow it to corrupt you with negative emotion or cause you to be entrapped in discursive thought. Cheerfulness is one of the indispensable qualifications for those who desire to be able to help others. What is the use of a doctor if he fainted or wept at the sight of an accident?

Best wishes,

-Andrew


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