This volume assembles the addresses and articles of Mr Surendra Narayan, mainly published in The Theosophist during the period fro 1980 to 1995 when he was the international Vice-President of the Theosophical Society. With characteristic wisdom, clarity, humanism and catholicity of outlook, these essays, written in an easy style, serve to enlighten and inspire the reader intellectually and spiritually All serious students of life should find them interesting and useful.
Foreword: I am privileged to introduce to the world this priceless booklet of Letters from the Elder Brothers, Who were the true Founders of the Theosophical Society. Many a Pilgrim on the Probationary Path will find in it much of help and inspiration, and it will serve to deepen the sense of the reality of our Teachers, sometimes blurred in the minds of neophytes by the tumultuous happenings in the outer world, as the notes of a vina are drowned if played in the rattle of an engine-shed. May it speak to those who have ears to hear. Annie Besant
Foreword
I am privileged to introduce to the world this priceless booklet of Letters from the Elder Brothers, who were the true Founders of the Theosophical Society. Many a Pilgrim on the Probationary Path will find in it much of help and inspiration, and it will serve to deepen the sense of the reality of our Teachers, sometimes blurred in the minds of neophytes by the tumultuous happenings in the outer world, as the notes of a vina are drowned if played in the rattle of an engine-shed. May it speak to those who have ears to hear.
Annie Besant
Foreword
I am privileged to introduce to the world this priceless booklet of Letters from the Elder Brothers, who were the true Founders of the Theosophical Society. Many a Pilgrim on the Probationary Path will find in it much of help and inspiration, and it will serve to deepen the sense of the reality of our Teachers, sometimes blurred in the minds of neophytes by the tumultuous happenings in the outer world, as the notes of a vina are drowned if played in the rattle of an engine-shed. May it speak to those who have ears to hear.
Annie Besant
'A Teacher is not the body, the head, or the beard, visible to man. He is in reality the inner being by the side of Gd, in the region of Truth, clothed in Divine Mercy and glory.....Perfect discipleship consists in perfect love for the beauty of the teacher's godly strength... O brother, know for certain that this work has been before thee and me (i.e., in bygone ages), and that each man has already reached a certain stage. No one has begun this work for the first time.'
In three inspiring and illuminating lectures, Annie Besant reveals the Reign of Law in the Universe and the need for man to understand and act according to that Law for his material,moral and spiritual progress.
Man can realize his true nature as the Higher Consciousness only in proportion as he 'tranquillizes the senses and restrains the mind'.
He advances towards that realization in proportion as he obeys'Dharma', the Law of Duty, by setting himself definitely and resolutely to the fulfilment of all his obligations.