The last six months ,I have been reading various books and booklets on theosophy and finally on a recommendation, started reading this book by CWL which I found lucidly clear and precise.
I will concise the learnings from this book as follows- The three basic tenets of theosophy are-
1. There is God and he is benevolent and immortal.
2 Man himself is also immortal .
3 There are certain laws of karma which naturally occur in man's life-as he sows, so he reaps.
Man is born from god and goes back to him, but the process going back is a process of getting the traits of god in himself.
Man's physical body, his astral body and his mental body play key roles in each of his lives on earth. While Man spends a lot of his time on earth serving the physical and the astral or emotional body, if he diverted this and spent time developing,nourishing his mental body-its this mental body and its quality that decides his position in the evolutionary scale.
When a noble man dies the initial decades he lives in his astral body and goes through still wanting all the things that he craved for while living-now in absolute frustration since his physical vehicle is no more. Slowly this 'wanting' nature of his burns up in frustration and he begins to accept his fate and then he transcends to the next higher level of the mental or devachanic plane.
Here, in this more enriching and happy phase he learns to gather all the good thoughts, aims, learnings that he collected in his earth life and lives in this state of vibration for many centuries, until once again his soul decides to be born again. Its the spirit within the soul (a spark of the divine) that decides on what the soul needs to learn and sends it back to the exact circumstances which will teach him broadly what he needs. If at a early age, man learns the basics of being an excellent human being and is constantly striving for mental beauty and perfection, this amount to be learned is reduced, the number of rebirths reduced, the difficulties faced lesser. The purpose of a student of theosophy has to be strive towards this internal excellence, through various methods. The path of polishiing this inner self is meandering one and one has to find one's loop holes and keep correcting as one goes along...so that towards the end of one's life -you can proudly stand up and say, 'I am a far better person that when I started out at first. I worked at it and I am proud of this achievement. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from them. I was haughty, arrogant, mean, rude, selfish, miserly, jealous but I learnt to replace each with humility, kindness, soft speech, charity, generosity and admiration for those who were better than me. I have done for myself, what was needed for my soul and now am ready to leave,until the next adventure beckons me.'
I will concise the learnings from this book as follows- The three basic tenets of theosophy are-
1. There is God and he is benevolent and immortal.
2 Man himself is also immortal .
3 There are certain laws of karma which naturally occur in man's life-as he sows, so he reaps.
Man is born from god and goes back to him, but the process going back is a process of getting the traits of god in himself.
Man's physical body, his astral body and his mental body play key roles in each of his lives on earth. While Man spends a lot of his time on earth serving the physical and the astral or emotional body, if he diverted this and spent time developing,nourishing his mental body-its this mental body and its quality that decides his position in the evolutionary scale.
When a noble man dies the initial decades he lives in his astral body and goes through still wanting all the things that he craved for while living-now in absolute frustration since his physical vehicle is no more. Slowly this 'wanting' nature of his burns up in frustration and he begins to accept his fate and then he transcends to the next higher level of the mental or devachanic plane.
Here, in this more enriching and happy phase he learns to gather all the good thoughts, aims, learnings that he collected in his earth life and lives in this state of vibration for many centuries, until once again his soul decides to be born again. Its the spirit within the soul (a spark of the divine) that decides on what the soul needs to learn and sends it back to the exact circumstances which will teach him broadly what he needs. If at a early age, man learns the basics of being an excellent human being and is constantly striving for mental beauty and perfection, this amount to be learned is reduced, the number of rebirths reduced, the difficulties faced lesser. The purpose of a student of theosophy has to be strive towards this internal excellence, through various methods. The path of polishiing this inner self is meandering one and one has to find one's loop holes and keep correcting as one goes along...so that towards the end of one's life -you can proudly stand up and say, 'I am a far better person that when I started out at first. I worked at it and I am proud of this achievement. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from them. I was haughty, arrogant, mean, rude, selfish, miserly, jealous but I learnt to replace each with humility, kindness, soft speech, charity, generosity and admiration for those who were better than me. I have done for myself, what was needed for my soul and now am ready to leave,until the next adventure beckons me.'
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