The Way Reached by Action—Continued
Now let us consider what is meant by action. There are certain actions, such as eating, drinking, sitting, and walking that are not different from those of animals. Therefore, if a person’s actions do not show something not found in animals, then that person has not awakened to human nature. That person cannot show something of the characteristics of a human being. We might ask, what are these?
The very same actions such as eating, drinking, sitting, and sleeping have at the back of them a guiding light. For example, the instant a person thinks they must not push another back while walking, saying, “I am sorry,” they show a tendency to be different from the animal. For in that case they must rub against one another and a human being shows they will not do so. Animals will pass before one another and instead of bowing to one another, they show their horns and their greeting will be a howl. Human beings will be different. What are the special characteristics of humanity but consideration, refinement, patience, thoughtfulness? Once a person has practised these characteristics, it leads to another action that leads to the practice of self-sacrifice, which leads to Divine Action. When a person sacrifices their time and advantage in life for the sake of someone they love, respect, and adore, this sacrifice raises that person higher than any standard of ordinary beings. This is the Divine Nature, which is not human. Because the human being begins to think as God thinks, because a person’s actions become more and more divine becoming the actions of God, that person is greater than the person who merely believes in God, for their own actions have become the actions of God.
The one whose soul is awakened sees all the doings of grown-up people as the doings of children of one Parent, Father and Mother. This person looks upon them as a Parent would look upon all human beings on the earth without thinking that they are Germans or Englishmen or Frenchmen. They are equally dear to God. God looks at all full of forgiveness; not only at those awakened souls who deserve it, but also at the others, who do not deserve it. God understands, for God understands the reason behind all.
By seeing good in everyone and everything, a human being begins to develop the Divine Light, which expands itself, throwing itself upon the greater part of life, making the whole life into a scene of Divine Sublimity. What the mystic develops in life is a wider outlook, and this wider outlook changes the mystic’s action. The mystic develops in themself a point of view that may be called a Divine Point of View. You cannot help calling this the Divine Point of View. A person rises to this state when they feel everything that is done to them comes from God. When you do right or wrong, you feel that you do right or wrong to God. Once a person has arrived at this state, they know true religion. There can be no better religion than that, the religion of God on earth.
This is the point of view that makes a person as God, divine. This person is resigned when badly treated; but they will take themself to task if they happen to find a shortcoming in their own action, for that is the action to God. Then the mystic’s conception of the Deity is not only of a Ruler or Judge or a Creator. The mystical conception of God is the Beloved, the only Beloved there is. To this person all the love of this world is like little children playing with their dolls, loving them. In that way, they learn the lesson they have to realize later in their life of taking care of home and family. The mystic learns the same lesson by proving sincere and devoted to all sorts of creatures. The mystic must devote and make themself devoted, to waken their self to the Beloved, the only Beloved there is and to Whom all love is due.
Undated
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