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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism410
who are growing into that understanding, consciousness and perception—
you who are beginning to feel the meaning of the I Am—be you as the
rock against which dashes and beats the waves of the sea. Let the relative
things dash themselves upon you, but be undisturbed, for they cannot harm
you. They can but refresh and cleanse you, and as they roll back into the sea
you will still stand there strong and undisturbed. Or, as one gazing from
his window upon the groups of little children playing, quarreling, disputing,
“making up,” playing their games, making rules, imposing forfeits, awarding
prizes—so view the world of men and women around you who are taking
it all so much in earnest. And in both cases, send them forth your Love and
Understanding, though they know not what you mean—though they cannot
understand your view-point.
We trust that we have made plain to you that the three generally recognized
theories of ethics—revelation, conscience or intuition, and utility, are not
antagonistic, but are complementary. Each presents its own phase of the
truth—each teaches its own lesson. And the three pillars support Dharma.
Let us now consider Dharma as a whole.
As we stated in our last lesson, Dharma may be defined as “Right Action”
or, to be more definite, we might say that “Dharma is the rule of action
and Life best adapted to the requirements of the individual soul, and best
calculated to aid that particular soul in its next highest step of development.”
And, as we said in the same lesson: “When we speak of a man’s ‘Dharma,’ we
mean the highest course of action for him, considering his development and
the immediate needs of his soul.”
The student will have gathered, by this time, the idea that the philosophy
of Dharma holds that “right” and “wrong” are relative terms, and that the
only absolute “right” there is must rest in the Absolute itself. And that there
is no such thing as absolute “wrong,” the relative wrong that we see when we
use the term, being merely an action resulting from either a low conception
of “right,” or else an action falling short of complying with the highest
conception of “right” on the part of the actor. In short no action is absolutely