Annie Besant was president of Theosophy movment for number of years. Annie Besant was also instrumental in the education and upbringing of enlightened mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti. When Jiddu Krishnamurti broke away with Theosophy movement, Annie Besant did not complained to J Krishnamurti and relation between them always remain friendly. Annie Besant always supported J Krishnamurti and remain in touch with him till her last days.
- The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no
energy, misses no opportunity.
- Mysticism is the realisation of God, of the Universal Self.
- Service is that which is done for love's sake for another. It is
not true service which is paid with wages.
- Desire draws together the Desirer and the Desired. — You see the
one motive power in the universe as attraction everywhere. So long
as it is drawn out from you by outer objects, we call it Desire.
When the same power is directed from within, we call it Will.
Everything you desire to possess is drawn towards you by desire,
because there is One Life in all, and the lives separated by their
different forms are ever trying to rejoin.
- As you give Happiness or Misery to others, so shall you reap
Happiness or Misery for Yourself. — According to the effect of our
action upon others comes a similar reaction upon ourselves. As by
sowing rice you reap rice, so by sowing pleasure you reap pleasure.
But if done for a selfish motive, it works out as a selfish
character.
- When a man feels devotion to the Supreme, he has turned his back
on evil and has turned his face to the goal; he may stumble, stray,
even fall, but his face is turned in the right direction, he is
going homewards; he must needs become dutiful by the force of his
devotion.
- We are free always; none can give us freedom, none can withhold
it. But only long experience and effort can remove from us the
delusion that we are bound. All the purification is but the cleaning
of the lamp-glass which hides the Light; the purification does not
light the lamp, it only permits the ever-burning light to send forth
its rays. So effort does not give liberation; it only removes the
delusion of bondage. Anywhere, at any stage, the Self may know and
assert his freedom; steps are nothing, stages are nothing, time is
nothing; the Self abides in eternity, the ever-free.
- The first step to the finding of the Self is, as the Upanishad
declares, the 'ceasing from evil ways'. Until evil is deliberately
put away by a full effort of the will and a resolute unwavering
determination, the very beginning of the finding of the Self may not
be. The feet which tread the miry ways of sin may not place
themselves upon the path of Holiness.
- I hold that alcohol itself is essentially a destructive,
mischievous agency, and therefore its use ought to be entirely
opposed, entirely renounced, as of no benefit in the economy of the
human body.
- No one can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal without having
used the hand of a man as slaughterer. Suppose that we had to kill
for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our
table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the
slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig?
- Liberation is the state of the spirit when he realizes his own
nature, his own eternity; when he knows himself as the reality, and
not as one of the passing phenomena of the world in which he happens
to be manifesting.
- Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not
prepared to act.
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly
lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure
in which you are setting into an unknown country, to face many a
danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose
many a battle.
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant's Mantra:
(This mantra is used in the Theosophical Society Adyar all over the world)
Oh hidden Life
Vibrant in every atom
Oh hidden Light
Shining in every creature
Oh Hidden Love
Embracing all in Oneness
May all who feel themselves
As one with Thee
Know they are therefore
One with Every Other
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