Selections from Great Master’s Letter The doctrine we promulgate being the only true one, must – supported by such evidence as we are preparing to give – become ultimately triumphant, like every other truth. Yet it is absolutely necessary to…
Raj Yoga encourages no sham, requires no physical postures. It has to deal with the inner man whose sphere lies in the world of thought. To have the highest ideal placed before oneself and strive incessantly to rise up to it,…
1. Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson.2. Harmony is the…
The Eternity of the Universe in tōtō [in total] as a boundless plane; periodically “the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing,” called “the manifesting stars,” and the “sparks of Eternity.” “The Eternity of the Pilgrim” is like a wink of the Eye of…
The fundamental identity of all Souls with the Universal Over-Soul, the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root; and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul—a spark of the former—through the Cycle of Incarnation (or “Necessity”) in accordance with…
. . . The ever unknowable and incognizable Karana alone, the Causeless Cause of all causes, should have it shrine and altar on the holy and ever untrodden ground of our heart–invisible, intangible, unmentioned, save through “the still small voice” of our spiritual consciousness. …
Every one of us possesses the faculty, the interior sense, that is known by the name intuition, but how rare are those who know how to develop it! It is, however, only by the aid of this faculty that men…
True knowledge has to be gained through an increasing perception of the universality of all law and the universal line of progress for every being of whatever grade. We have to think and practice altruism before the higher and more…
The meditation they urged on us has been explained as the ‘inexpressible yearnings of the inner man to go out into the infinite.’ But that Infinite we would enter is living. It is the ultimate being of us. Meditation is…
And now my grief I see Was but the ancient shadow part of me, Not yet attuned to good, Still blind and senseless in its warring mood, I turn from it and climb To heroic spirit of the prime, The…
Each aspirant has to perform daily actions in the natural course of his life, using his own free will and knowledge. He has to eat to build his body as a shrine of his soul; again he has to sacrifice…
It is he alone who has the love of humanity at heart, who is capable of grasping thoroughly the idea of a regenerating practical Brotherhood who is entitled to the possession of our secrets. He alone, such a man—will never…