Probation
Master K.H. wrote:
TO be accepted as a chela on probation—is an easy thing. To become an accepted chela—is to court the miseries of “probation”. Life in the ordinary run is not entirely made up of heavy trials and mental misery: the life of a chela who offers himself voluntarily is one long sacrifice. He, who would control hereafter the events of his life here and beyond, has first of all to submit himself to be controlled, yet triumph over every temptation, every woe of flesh and mind. The Chela “on probation” is like the wayfarer in the old fable of the sphinx; only the one question becomes a long series of every day riddles propounded by the Sphinx of Life, who sits by the wayside, and who, unless her ever changing and perplexing puzzles are successfully answered one after the other, impedes the progress of the traveller and finally destroys him.[1]
Online resources
Articles
- Probation at Theosopedia
Notes
- ↑ Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa (comp.), Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, vol. 2 (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, ??), ??