Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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in the past, he burns up the action of the present by devotion. Then it is that he attains the state spoken of by "John the divine” in Revelation, in which the man goeth no more out of the Temple. For the soul goes out of the Temple many and many a time into the plains of life, but the time arrives when he becomes a pillar, " a pillar in the Temple of my God"; that Temple is the universe of liberated souls, and only those who are bound to nothing for themselves can be bound to everyone in the name of the One Life.
These bonds of desire then, of personal desire, nay of individual desire, must be broken. We can see how the breaking will begin; and here comes in a mistake which many young students are apt to fall into, a mistake so natural and easy that it is constantly occurring. We do not break the “bonds of the heart” by trying to kill the heart. We do not break the bonds of desire by trying to turn ourselves into stones or pieces of metal unable to feel. The disciple becomes more sensitive, and not less so, as he nears his liberation, he becomes more tender and not more hard; for the perfect “ disciple who is as the Master” is the one who answers to every thrill in the outside universe, who is touched by and responds to everything, who feels and answers to everything, who just because he desires