In the Outer CourtTheosophical Publishing House, 1895 - 164 páginas |
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In The Outer Court Annie Besant,The Theosophical Publishing Society Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
achieved action ante-chamber Arhat Arjuna aspirant become begin to realise begin to understand bliss Brahman Buddha building of character candidate climbing comes consciousness definite deliberate desire Devachan Dhammapada Diamond Soul disciple Divine earnestness earth energy entered essence evermore everything evil evolution exoteric feel fetters gain Gate gateway gathered give glimpse gradually grasp growing heart higher Holy of Holies human ideal ignorance illusion Kalpa knowledge Law of Sacrifice light lives longer look lower nature lower world manifestation matter means mighty mind ness once onwards Outer Court outer world pain pass Path peace perfect purified qualities race recognised round and round round the mountain seeking seems sense separation side sorrow speak spiritual alchemy stage stand step struggle suffering Temple temptations THEOSOPHICAL things thought threshold tion transmutation tread truth Upanishads upwards virtue whole wisdom words Yoga
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Página 140 - Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound.
Página 137 - If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law — then his glory will increase. By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
Página 161 - The gods even envy him whose senses, like horses well broken in by the driver, have been subdued, who is free from pride, and free from appetites.
Página 155 - Ho ! ye who suffer ! know Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss Its spokes of agony, Its tire of tears, its nave of nothingness.
Página 162 - There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.
Página 137 - A Bhikshu (mendicant) who delights in earnestness, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness, moves about like fire, burning all his fetters, small or large.
Página 132 - I, Buddh, who wept with all my brothers' tears, Whose heart was broken by a whole world's woe, Laugh and am glad, for there is Liberty! Ho! ye who suffer! know Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels...
Página 89 - Fearlessness, cleanness of life, steadfastness in the Yoga of wisdom, alms-giving, self-restraint and sacrifice and study of the scriptures, austerity and straightforwardness, harmlessness, truth, absence of wrath, renunciation, peacefulness, absence of crookedness, compassion to living beings, uncovetousness, mildness, modesty, absence of fickleness, vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of envy and pride — these are his who is born with the divine properties.
Página 109 - But the man who rejoiceth in the Self, with the Self is satisfied, and is content in the Self, for him verily there is nothing to do. For him there is no interest in things done in this world, nor any in things not done, nor doth any object of his depend on any being.
Página 137 - He who is earnest and meditative obtains ample joyWhen the learned man drives away vanity by earnestness, he, the wise, climbing the terraced heights of wisdom, looks down upon the fools; serene he looks upon the toiling crowd, as one that stands on a mountain looks down upon them that stand upon the plain.