Meditation on Virtues
according to
J.I. Wedgwood
Reflect that like all other virtues this is an attribute of the Divine Consciousness; try to understand its nature and function in the world; consider it as a binding power uniting one particularized self to another. Compare it with love: sympathy implies understanding of another and the power to place oneself in his position; love need not imply this understanding; on the other hand for its complete expression sympathy requires the strong inner motive power which love alone can supply. Picture the divine sympathy as poured forth into the world through the ideal man – the Christ or the Master – and then as directed towards one's self individually.
The student should then with a strong active aspiration merge himself into the stream of this ineffable influence radiating from the Master, and to seek to reach the object of his devotion. (Here the stage of contemplation may be attained). He should then think of this virtue as applied in his daily life, to his friends and loved ones—even to those with whom there is need for better understanding; let him picture them one by one before him and wrap them round with the influence which is pouring through him.
Meditation for Beginners, “Meditation on Sympathy”
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The student should then with a strong active aspiration merge himself into the stream of this ineffable influence radiating from the Master, and to seek to reach the object of his devotion. (Here the stage of contemplation may be attained). He should then think of this virtue as applied in his daily life, to his friends and loved ones—even to those with whom there is need for better understanding; let him picture them one by one before him and wrap them round with the influence which is pouring through him.
Meditation for Beginners, “Meditation on Sympathy”
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