Sooner or Later, Everyone
Discovers the Path to the Highest
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Human soul, says the Yoga of Patanjali, adopts the form and substance of the topics or matters to which it pays attention. Elevated subjects make the mind noble. Superficial topics cause it to organize itself to function as if it were superficial.
For this reason, poor and narrow feelings – such as personal pride, resentment, frustration, and ill will – can only occur in the absence of that natural and benign emotion that every human being experiences when observing the eternal immensity of the cosmos.
He who gazes at the sky on a beautiful starry night feels neither envy nor anger. On the contrary, peace is then experienced.
In the New Testament, James 3:16 teaches:
“…Where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.” In the Yoga Sutras, Book I, Aphorism 33, Patanjali clarifies that the feeling of envy can only occur in a wandering mind; a distracted, unfocused soul.
The solution for the problem is in recovering one’s humbleness.
The lesson of modesty emerges in various forms. Perhaps an envious and ambitious individual is deprived of conscious contact with the divine world, or with ethics. Even so, he can be momentarily cured of the disease of envy if he honestly remembers two basic facts:
1) The first is that he was born fragile, small, defenseless, unable to do anything for himself, and totally dependent on the goodwill of others.
2) The second fact is that sooner or later he will die under similar conditions and totally defenseless, before he is reborn – this time with no physical body – to the subtle afterlife transition.
Although extremely simple, such a lesson in humility helps to remove the egocentric illusion of feelings such as envy and resentment. Through the direct experience of modesty, we rediscover peace.
Every sensible pilgrim adopts humility as his advisor. He observes the world from the perspective of his spiritual soul and always tries to listen to the voice of conscience.
When the Blessings Come to Us
A heavenly bliss gradually descends upon the soul of the pilgrim as he studies the cosmic law that governs his life.
And he may smile while asking himself:
“What importance can my personal discomfort have in the more universal context of the Local Group of Galaxies?”
Any dispute between personalities then becomes a source of bitter disdain for the student – if not laughter. His soul is, in part, free from such trifles. He no longer has patience for this form of wasting time.
According to theosophy, knowledge depends on syntony. When we focus our mind and soul on that which is elevated, we change ourselves accordingly: but at the same time we lose syntony and affinity with those lower layers of life that are now outside of our priority.
Each pilgrim must make his own choice: however, sooner or later everyone discovers the path to the highest. It is not possible to eternally postpone the moment of meeting Truth.
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“The Cure for Envy Was Discovered” is available as an independent item in the associated websites since 20 November 2022. An initial and anonymous version of it is part of the July 2021 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, page 12. The text was revised and updated on 8 June 2026.
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Helena Blavatsky (photo) wrote these revealing words: “Deserve, then desire”.
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