All
personal experience really exists for the sake of another: namely, the
spiritual man. By perfectly concentrated meditation on experience for the
sake of the Self, comes a knowledge of the spiritual man."
The wise person seeks experience in order that he may attain to the
standard of the spiritual man; doing all things for the lessons that they
teach; working "as those work who are ambitious," and yet having no
personal ambition. Looking on all life, and at the self of personality and
knowing the illusion of the self he is raising the personal self to the
spiritual plane; but always he has the handicap of the desires of the lower
self, the personal, which "seeks to feast on life," because it is born of
the external, and its inherent appetites are for the satisfaction and
pleasures of that physical self.
We do not say to look upon the body with its needs and its desires, as an
enemy to be overcome; or that its allurements are dangerous although
pleasurable. No. We say to the student, "control the desires of the body.
Pages:
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328