It is the natural right of every
human being to be happy to escape all this miseries of life. Happiness is the
normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. It is unnatural
to suffer and it's only because of our ignorance that we do suffer. Happiness is
the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the aim of
life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is
to put an end to all hurting, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us.
Perfect wisdom is un-shadowed joy.
Why do we suffer in lifetime? Because
in the scheme of nature we are being forced forward in evolution and we lack the
spiritual illumination that alone can light the best way and enable us to move
safely among the obstacles that lie before us. Usually we do not even see or
suspect the presence of trouble until it suddenly leaps upon us such as a
concealed tiger. One day our family circle is complete and happy. A week later
death has come and gone in addition to joy is replaced with agony. Today we have
a friend. Tomorrow he will be an enemy and we do definitely not know why. A
little while ago we had wealth and all material luxuries. There was a sudden
change and there are now only poverty and misery and yet we seek in vain for a
reason why this should be. There was a period of time when we had health and
strength; but they have both departed and no trace of a reason appears. Aside by
these greater tragedies of life innumerable things of lesser consequence
continually bring to us little miseries and minor heartaches. We most earnestly
prefer to avoid them but we never see them until they strike us, until in the
darkness of our ignorance we mistake upon them. The thing we lack is the
spiritual illumination that will enable us to look far and wide, finding the
hidden causes of human suffering and revealing the method by which they may be
avoided; and if we can but reach illumination the evolutionary journey can be
made both comfortably in addition to swiftly. It is as though we must pass
through a long, dark room filled with furniture promiscuously scattered about.
From the darkness our progress would be slow and painful and our bruises many.
But if we could press a button that may turn on the electric light we could then
make the same journey quickly and with perfect safety and comfort.
The
old means of education was to store the mind with as many facts, or supposed
facts, as could be accumulated and to supply a certain exterior polish to the
personality. The theory was that when a man was born he was a completed human
being and that all that is certainly done for him was to load him up with
information that would be used with more or less skill, using the native ability
he happened to be born with. The theosophical idea is that the physical man, and
all that constitutes his life from the physical world, is but a very partial
expression of the self; that in the ego of each there is pretty much unlimited
power and wisdom; that these may be brought through into expression in the
physical world as the physical body and invisible counterparts, which together
constitute the complex vehicle of the ego's manifestation, are evolved and
adapted to the purpose; and this in exact proportion that conscious effort is
given to such self-development will spiritual illumination be achieved and
wisdom attained. Thus the light that leads to happiness is kindled from within
and the evolutionary journey that all are making may be robbed of its
hurting.
Why does death bring misery? Chiefly because it separates us
from those we love. The only other reason why death brings grief or fear is
because we don't realize it and comprehend the part it plays in human evolution.
But the moment our ignorance gives way to comprehension such fear vanishes as
well as a serene happiness takes its place.
Why do we have enemies from
whose words or acts we suffer? Because in our limited physical consciousness we
do not perceive the unity of all life and realize that our wrong thinking and
doing must react upon us through other people a situation from which there is
absolutely no possible escape except through ceasing to think evil and then
patiently awaiting the time when the causes we have without a doubt generated are
fully exhausted. When spiritual illumination comes, and we no longer stumble in
the night of ignorance, the last enemy will disappear and we shall make get rid
of forever.
Why do people suffer from poverty and disease? Only because
of our blundering ignorance that makes their existence simple for us, and
because we do not comprehend their meaning and their lessons, nor know the
attitude to assume toward these individuals. Had we but the wisdom to understand
why they come to people, why they are necessary factors in their progress, they
would trouble us no longer. When nature's lesson is fully learned these mute
teachers will vanish.
And so it truly is with all forms of suffering we
experience. They are at once reactions from our ignorant blundering and
instructors that indicate the better way. When we have comprehended the lessons
they teach they are no longer necessary and disappear. It seriously isn't by the
outward acquirement of facts that men become wise and great. It is by developing
the soul from within until it illuminates serotonin levels with that flood of
light called genius.
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