The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.Various
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The Path, Vol. I.—1886-'7.: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature.
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The only effectual way to get out of family defects is to discharge
all our duty to our family before leaving it, as ascetics, or before
we die. Blessed is he[86] who, in each of his incarnations, _then and
there_, gets rid of the defects of the family into which he is ushered,
thereby converts those defects in his parents, brothers and sisters,
into noble qualities, thus strengthening and developing the good
qualities both of himself and of his family, then strives to be born in
the same family again and again, until he himself becomes a Buddha and
assists his family to become a family fit for a Buddha to be born into,
while he becomes the cream of all the noble qualities of the family
without being tainted with its idiosyncrasies. A Dugpa (Black Magician)
is frequently born in the same family and becomes the cream of all its
evil propensities. Here again is the operation of the sublime and
divinely intelligent law of universal and natural economy asserting
itself. This is beautifully allegorized in the story of a Jivanmukta
churning out of the ocean, the elixir of life and leaving the _visha_
(the poison, all the evil propensities) for the Dugpas. This is one
of the meanings of the allegory. Avoiding all personalities and
questionable facts, I shall rely solely upon our Puranas and scriptures
to prove that in every family where Adepts and Gnanis are (or choose to
be) frequently born, often Dugpas are also born, as a matter of course.
Krishna was the greatest of Gnanis and his uncle Kausa (for our present
purpose) was a terrible Dugpa. The five Pandavas had a hundred wicked
cousins, the Kauravas. Devas and the whole brood of wicked Asuras were
born of the same parent. _Vibhishana_ had for his brother, _Ravana_ the
prince of Dugpas; so had the good Sugriva a brother like Vali. Prahlada
had a monster for his father.
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