By
Understanding Suffering We
Become
Apt to Experience Happiness
Carlos
Cardoso Aveline
There
is a time to build structures that serve the Law of Life
* Transcending is different from despising. One can only
transcend that which has been thoroughly known and whose value is duly
acknowledged.
* It is naive to pretend one can leave his physical
body apart as something destitute of spiritual value. The keys to understand
every sacred level of universal knowledge are present in the physical vehicle
of human beings. Many high sages of mankind use physical bodies.
* Our task as seekers of truth is not to get rid of
material life, but to liberate our physical existence from unnecessary
ignorance, an unavoidable task which will probably take some time yet, and more
than one effort.
* It is useless to talk about problems, except if we
do this while looking for healthy ways to overcome them. It is helpful to talk
about difficulties, as long as the reason for the dialogue is to find practical
means to reduce them.
* Life and karma depend on the point of view from
which knowledge is built and actions are performed.
* In true theosophy, Raja Yoga and Psychoanalysis may
complement each other. Raja Yoga helps us focus on the divine, while
Psychoanalysis shows the mechanisms of pain and ignorance. The theosophical
forms of Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga are also necessary, among other
areas of knowledge and action.
The Bliss and the Punishment
* Difficulties come to us as punishment or as positive
possibilities. Their meaning depends on our attitude towards them.
* If we complain about unpleasant facts, they become mere
punishment, a reflection of previous mistakes, an expression of the limitations
in the present human karma.
* If while confronting obstacles we make an effort to
understand their causes, to remove their original basis and learn the spiritual
lessons they bring to us, then the difficulties are but the door to a new and
higher type of blessings. The suffering is then seen as the master who makes
sure we don’t fail, and pain becomes an elder sister who zealously protects us
from irresponsible childishness.
* By understanding suffering we become apt to
experience happiness.
A Time to Build
* The universe as a whole - says Patanjali - exists to
serve the evolution of the soul. In our daily life, too, that which is material
can be legitimate as long as it helps the learning of one’s spirit. And all
existing things obey to the law of the tides. The most different aspects of
life are inevitably cyclic.
* That which starts, must conclude. Whatever degenerates must fall at the same
time as new instruments are emerging to help the inner evolution.
* There is a time to dismantle old structures that
hinder the growth of the soul. And there is a time to build structures which humbly
serve the core of life, the heart of things, the Law of the universe, the
dynamics of the essence.
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“Thoughts Along the Road - 45” was
published as an independent text on 04 May 2020. An initial version of it, with no indication as to the
name of the author, is included in “The Aquarian Theosophist”, December 2018
edition, p. 07. Also from that edition of The
Aquarian the notes “The Bliss and the Punishment” (p. 03) and “A Time to
Build” (p. 01) are included in the present article.
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See other writings of Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
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