cover image: The Path of Discipleship. Four Lectures Delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society  at Adtar  Madras December 27  28  29 and 30  1895

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The Path of Discipleship. Four Lectures Delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society at Adtar Madras December 27 28 29 and 30 1895

1918

For we begin to see that the result of the universe is to be the evolution of the LOGOS of another universe of the mighty pevas who are to be the guides of all the kosmic forces of that universe in the future and of the divine Teachers whose duty it will be to train the infant humanity of another Kosmos. [...] And the great scripture of Yoga as it may be called the scripture of this Karma-Yoga is that which was reproclaimed by Shri Krshna on the field of Kurukshetra when He taught this form of Yoga to Arjuna to the prince to the warrior the man who was to live in the world FIRST STEPS 11 to fight in the world to rule the State and take part in all external activities ; here is the eternal lesso [...] 2"18 THE PATH OF DISCIPLESHIP Next there is the sacrifice to the Ancestors ; the recognition of what man owes to those who went before him in the world the paymenof the debt that he owes to those who worked in the world ere his last coming the gratitude and veneration which are due to those who partly made the world for us and brought about improvements that we should inherit them. [...] You may have that in the lower brutal form—the animal passion between the sexes of the very lowest and the poorest kind which cares nothing for the character of the one for whom the aftachment is felt which cares nothing for the beauty of the mental and of the moral nature ; it cares only for the physical beauty the physical attraction and the physical pleasure. [...] When we say a man is self-controled we mean that his mind is stronger than his passions : that if you take the lower nature the passions and the emotions and over against that you set the intellectual nature the mind and the will and the reasoning power and the judgment that these last are stronger than the first ; that the man is able in a moment of temptation under an appeal to his pass
philosophy religion
Pages
139
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141967
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii Annie Besant view
First Steps
1-33 unknown view
Qualifications for Discipleship
34-64 unknown view
The Life of the Disciple
65-99 unknown view
The Future Progress of Humanity
100-136 unknown view

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