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Laukika or Lokothra
Since the earliest days of Theosophical Society,
H P Blavatsky warned that acquiring Psychic powers
does not necessarily denote Spiritual Development.
Posted 1/1/07
In her
article “Spiritual Progress”, H P Blavatsky includes this warning against being
led up a blind alley by adopting a philosophy which merely opens up the psychic
faculties which are latent within us rather than pursuing real spiritual
progress.
There are
of course those who pursue psychic powers as an end in themselves and they will
sooner or later have a Karmic bill to pay for this.
Extract
from Spiritual Progress
By H P
Blavatsky
“we would
warn all our members, and others who are seeking spiritual knowledge, to beware
of persons offering to teach them easy methods of acquiring psychic gifts; such
gifts (laukika) are indeed comparatively easy of acquirement by
artificial means, but fade out as soon as the nerve-stimulus exhausts itself.
The real seership and Adeptship which is accompanied by true psychic
development (lokothra) (sometimes lokottara) , once reached, is never
lost.”
Lakika and Lokothra (Lokottara) are Sanskrit words often found
in Hindu and Buddhist philosophies.
Laukika is commonly used and relatively easy to define:-
Laukika - worldly,
mundane, secular, pertaining to the material world.
Laukika-jnana
- worldly knowledge, knowledge of worldly phenomena.
Laukika-sraddha
- worldly regard; faith which is based on custom or tradition and not on a deep
understanding of the sastra.
Lokothra
(Lokottara) means transcendent but is used to denote a number of esoteric
concepts and purification of the soul.
Spiritual Progress By H P Blavatsky
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