More on Service
Apr. 15th, 2008 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosOn further reflection, I felt it important to mention that I believe an enlightened soul could also choose a path of service that involved remaining disincarnate.
The focus of most spiritual writing tends to be on the challenges of material, incarnate life -- but if we admit to belief in worlds and forms of existence beyond this one, it naturally follows that there is work to do in those other realms as well as this one.
It would be wrong, I believe, to assume that souls who choose not to return do so out of unwillingness to aid their fellows. The paths of the bodhisattva and the sacred king are simply two among many, and not all of them lead back into incarnation in this world.
The focus of most spiritual writing tends to be on the challenges of material, incarnate life -- but if we admit to belief in worlds and forms of existence beyond this one, it naturally follows that there is work to do in those other realms as well as this one.
It would be wrong, I believe, to assume that souls who choose not to return do so out of unwillingness to aid their fellows. The paths of the bodhisattva and the sacred king are simply two among many, and not all of them lead back into incarnation in this world.
