| 117.) As Lord Summarized In Agni Yoga Book Two: I shall specify the qualities distinctive in those seeking the Common Good: (1) Constancy of striving. (2) Ability of containment, for poor is he who denies, but the seeker of truth is worthy to work for the General Good. (3) Ability to labor, because the majority do not know the value of time. (4) The desire to help, without prejudices and usurpation. (5) Renouncement of personal property and the acceptance for safekeeping of the fruit of the creativeness of others. (6) Expulsion of fear**. (7) Display of vigilance amidst darkness. |
| ( ** (i) “There is infinite power inherent in the human heart. […] When you develop a firm faith in God, you will never have any fear whatsoever. … “Your faith in the omnipresent divinity is the key to developing fearlessness. Only when you lose faith will you develop fear. Only when you forget your True Self will fear arise. You have forgotten your own true nature. You have forgotten the Atma.” ( Sai Baba Gita, Ch. 28) (ii) “.. When I speak of the heart it means that salvation can be found along this channel. […] One must understand still more firmly how unfit by now are the old measures. Only one bridge remains from the highest worlds— the heart. Let us approach the source of the sensing of Light. […] The time is a difficult one! Thus shall we repeat, fearless of the derision of the ignorant. They do not have even an idea of the significance of the heart.” (AY, Heart, 405.) (iii) “One must understand that a boundary runs between Light and darkness. True, it is a tortuous line, but according to the heart the adherents of darkness can unerringly be recognized. Can he who is dark in heart strive upward? Will he reject lie and self-love in the course of life? Will he conquer fear when facing the future? Thus, discern that he who fears the future belongs to darkness; this is the surest touchstone.” (AY, Heart, 403.) ) |