A Test of Spiritual Practice
A TEST OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICE As we push back the boundary and enlarge the area of our consciousness, our “self” grows and expands in the same proportion, till at last, when we have so widened our circle of interests and removed back our threshold of consciousness that it embraces the Universe, then, in the language […]
Self-Devised Efforts
SELF-DEVISED EFFORTS H.P. Blavatsky writes that each student is responsible for their own self-devised efforts of learning and service in the pursuit of Truth. However, all human beings have a germ of the Divine spark within, and, as a ray of the Divine, have access to an inner light of understanding which enables them to […]
Real Devotion
REAL DEVOTION Real devotion is a return to one’s true nature. All human souls in the Third Root Race were natural exemplars of humanity, and were joyously devoted. In the infancy of the human race immortal souls did not know any way other than devotion and harmony, which is why devotion has often been compared […]
Searching for Wisdom
SEARCHING FOR WISDOM Seek this wisdom by doing service, by strong search, by questions, and by humility; the wise who see the truth will communicate it unto thee, and knowing which thou shalt never again fall into error. SHRI KRISHNA,Bhagavad Gita In the same Sub-Category Share on email Email
Knowledge As Spiritual Discernment
KNOWLEDGE AS SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT Abstract space and eternity are indivisible; and therefore to try to fix time and place, as though they were absolute realities, is neither metaphysical nor philosophical. However, an objective standpoint is essential, as has been already pointed out. In the economy of Nature, everything is right in its place, and to […]
Self-Examination
SELF-EXAMINATION Self-examination is the examination of the lower and personal self by the Higher and Impersonal Self. W. Q. JUDGE In the same Sub-Category
Humility
HUMILITY In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there […]
Work in the Present
WORK IN THE PRESENT Then regret nothing, not even the greatest follies of your life, for they are gone, and you are to work in the present which is both past and future at once. So then, with the absolute knowledge that all your limitations are due to Karma, past or in this life, and […]
Spiritual Inspiration
Theosophy as Divine Wisdom ⮎ Spiritual Inspiration “When people come together, truly forgetting themselves and united by the magnetic attraction of the good, they emulate and serve in some small measure the Teachers of Humanity, the great galaxy of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.”From Hermes, “The Zero Principle”by Raghavan IyerPublished by permission of theosophytrust.org.
Theosophy As a Living Power
Theosophy as Divine Wisdom ⮎ Theosophy As a Living Power A man may seek the Golden Thread that binds all religions, sciences and philosophies, and yet never be wholly successful unless he becomes a universal man, a Renaissance man, a man of all cultures.RAGHAVAN N. IYER, Hermes, November 1976