Mahatma Letter to H. S. Olcott - LMW 2 No. 23
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Written by: | Serapis Bey |
Received by: | Henry Steel Olcott |
Sent via: | unknown |
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Written on: | unknown |
Received on: | 16 August 1876 |
Other dates: | none |
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Sent from: | unknown |
Received at: | New York |
Via: | none |
This is Letter No. 23 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series. Mahatma Serapis Bey rebukes Henry Steel Olcott for not defending Helena Petrovna Blavatsky from an acquaintance who spoke against her. Serapis quotes verses from Buddhist texts.[1]
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THREE SENTENCES FROM DHAMMA PADAM ONE FROM SUTRAS Daily Observances XXII. He who hears his brother reviled, and keeping a smooth face leaves the abuse unnoticed, tacitly agrees with the enemy, as if he admitted the same to be proper and just. He who does it is either mouse-hearted, or selfishness is at the bottom of his heart. He is not fit as yet to become a “companion.” LXI. Revenge is sinful and throws the “companion” in the embrace of and power of Zahak. He who permits his left hands to be polluted with dung without immediately wiping it with his right cares little for the cleanliness of his whole body. What constitutes the integral? – Parts. Of what is composed a human body? – Of limbs. If one limb cares not for the appearance of another limb, is not Zahak ready with trowel and brush to blacken the whole? Such a “companion” is not ready to become a Brother. XXXI. It is easy to destroy the poisonous houâbà in its first germination. It is difficult to arrest its progress when once allowed to mature. Its unhealthy emanations will fill the atmosphere with miasms. It will spread and infect its healthy brethren and cause the limpid waters of the lake to stagnate and dry. Avoid the houâbà and its husbandman, Beloved. LXXII. It is as difficult to become a Buddha as to find the flowers of Udumbara and Palaca along the highway. It is easy to try, and even follow the path of Buddha.
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- ↑ C. Jinarājadāsa, Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, Second Series (Adyar, Madras,India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925), 48-49.