Feeling of revenge are another enemy within you.You must not think about revenge because in the process of taking revenge upon your enemy, you are creating worse conditions than before.Let karma take care of things.As God says in the Bible, "Revenge is Mine."A revengeful person day and night poisons his nature and eventually creates a heavy karma upon his shoulders.
Fear and revenge kill in you the opportunity to be a free person .It s very interesting to note that fear,revenge, and hatred are especially found in religious circles.Fear in religion is so widespread.Revenge is also alive and very active.Hatred is prevalent.One wonders whether a religious person can hope to achieve the ideal state promised by his religion if he does not absolutely destroy in his heart the seeds of fear,hatred, and revenge.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Challenges of Discipleship
The test that the Master gives here should be applied to all our work.Suppose you are writing a letter;if you knew that the Master would come and read it over, it would be very carefully written, both as to its contents and its form.Whatever your work is, it is His work, if it is the best you can do;whether it is something that the Master wants done for some immediate purpose , or something that prepares you for his future work.Everything is for Him,if we are His;it cannot be for anybody else.Make this your normal and continual attitude of mind, and you make the atmosphere in which one-pointedness can grow.
You will continue to hold this thought foremost in your minds all through the time that you are disciples;all have to make the habit,and when it is made they must go on strengthening it.That will help us to do with all our might whatever work we have.We must do it with our might because so it becomes part of the divine work, and because of the training of character it gives.Make your work quite true,allowing nothing second rate to pass.
-Annie Besant, Talks on the Path of Occultism Volume 1
INNER PURIFICATION OR CHARACTER BUILDING IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.Without inner purification or character building, the weaknesses of a person will become so magnified that the person becomes worse instead of better.Character building is done through INNER REFLECTION AND FIRM RESOLUTION. Inner reflection means reflecting on what one has done during the whole day.Firm resolution means to mentally erase the mistake done during the day, and to repeatedly imagine you are practicing right thoughts and emotion, right speech and right action.This has to be done repeatedly.
The key word is to REPEATEDLY imagine.The question is why?It is part of ancient teachings that:
a.Repeated good thoughts will inevitably manifest as good actions.
b.Repeated good actions will eventually manifest as a virtue.
-Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, Origin of Modern Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga
No one can defeat a person if he does not defeat himself.We defeat ourselves with the defeating elements we manufacture in our physical, emotional and mental realms.A defeating element is a thought,word or action which is against beauty, goodness, truth, joy, honesty, nobility and purity. If you have defeating elements within you, you will never feel strong.And because you do not feel strong, you will never have the courage and daring to stand for truth, freedom and beauty, you will never have the courage to make discipleship commitments.
Only those whose hearts are not defeated by dark elements can dare to be disciples and can dare to stand in the life of discipleship and make spiritual commitment.Weak ones look for shallow and muddy waters in which to pass their time, but disciples try to climb where a summit exists.Powerful and victorious people are those who have no defeating factors in them.Never fear an enemy that is outside of you.Every outside enemy conquers you only through the enemy you have within you.
-Torkom Saraydarian,Challenges of Discipleship
