Responsibility

As the disciple learns and grows in his understanding it becomes increasingly important that he share that understanding with his fellow man. To fail to do so would be akin to having the body refuse to share its food with its feet, or any other part. We are all parts of the one life and on a different level we are all part on one humanity. The body shares the food and vitality it gathers from its environment equally with all of its parts as needed for the survival of the whole. If we have a condition where one area of the body were to hoard resources such as nutrition or the awareness of danger the damage would be done to the whole. Cancer behaves this way and through its selfish theft of resources and unbalanced growth it can cause the destruction of the organism of which it is a part. It treats its host much in the same way that we are treating the earth. Selfish purposes work against the evolution of consciousness this way.

If one member of the human family foresees a danger or the possibility of some beneficial action and withholds this information from the body of humanity for some selfish reason we all fail to benefit from the information and humanity suffers as a whole, not just the few who the knower may have been able to inform directly. If greed causes one man to hold a secret formula which increases the quality and yield of a certain grain for selfish profit and the result is that there is less food for the community.

It is incumbent upon the disciple to share his understanding with those around him who are ready for the information so that he may ease their suffering, or more accurately, to enable them to ease it for themselves. This is inherent in the knowledge that we are all one and the same. Christ said “whatsoever thou doest unto the least f these, thou doest also unto me”. This is a statement which illustrates that understanding. My feet are a part of me and if I neglect them I neglect my own well being.

My fellow man also is a part of me and if he suffers or is lost and I refuse to help him, humanity suffers. By opening up our hearts and minds and sharing our discoveries we raise the consciousness and the quality of the life of the whole. The process helps to foster group awareness and accelerates our development as better servers of humanity as we help others to become servers themselves. Failure to do so is an act of selfishness and separateness and will effect the disciple’s growth. “You have no right to evoke that which you do not share”. (The Tibetan).

As disciples and Aspirants we are bearers of light and our presence on the path helps to make it easier for our fellow travelers. We always hear the analogies of those who have “lost their way”. We need the light of the soul carried down through the mind. With a little more light we can see perhaps a few more steps of the path before us and make better decisions. When we open our minds we open them to the light that shines and it shines forth in us.

In our full moon meditation the keynote says “He who faces the light and stands within its radiance is blinded to the issues of the world of men; he passes on the lighted way to the great center of absorption. But he who feels the urge to pass that way, but loves his brother on the darkened path, revolves upon the pedestal of light and turns the other way.”

He becomes a light on the path and then the way for his brother is not so dark. “The seven centers within him transmit the streaming light and lo! The face upon the darkened way receives the light”. This is the disciple living the life of the soul, actively radiating light through the centers he is awakening through his service. His selfless caring for his brother on the path propels him in his development. This is why he need not desire anything for the separated self. The act of caring for and serving humanity is what develops the disciple’s group and soul awareness.