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| translations = [https://ru.teopedia.org/lib/Блаватская_Е.П._-_Чела Russian] | | translations = [https://ru.teopedia.org/lib/Блаватская_Е.П._-_Чела Russian] | ||
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{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[''The Theosophist'', Vol. VI, No. 1(61), October, 1884, p. 1]}} | |||
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These questions arise because many persons have entertained very absurd views for a time about Chelas, and when it was found that those views should be changed, the reaction has been in several cases quite violent. | These questions arise because many persons have entertained very absurd views for a time about Chelas, and when it was found that those views should be changed, the reaction has been in several cases quite violent. | ||
The word “Chela” simply means a disciple; but it has become crystallized in the literature of Theosophy, and has, in different minds, as many different definitions as the word “God” itself. Some persons have gone so far as to say that when a man is a Chela he is at once put upon a plane when each word that he may unfortunately utter is taken down as ex cathedra, and he is not allowed the poor privilege of talking like an ordinary person. If it be found out that any such utterance was on his own account and responsibility, he is charged with having misled his hearers. | The word “Chela” simply means ''a disciple''; but it has become crystallized in the literature of Theosophy, and has, in different minds, as many different definitions as the word “God” itself. Some persons have gone so far as to say that when a man is a Chela he is at once put upon a plane when each word that he may unfortunately utter is taken down as ''ex cathedra'', and he is not allowed the poor privilege of talking like an ordinary person. If it be found out that any such utterance was on his own account and responsibility, he is charged with having misled his hearers. | ||
Now this wrong idea must be corrected once for all. There are Chelas and Chelas, just as there are | Now this wrong idea must be corrected once for all. There are Chelas and Chelas, just as there are {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahatmas}} and {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahatmas}}. There are {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahatmas}} in fact who are themselves the Chelas of those who are higher yet. But no one, for an instant, would confound a Chela who has just begun his troublous journey with that greater Chela who is a {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahatma}}. | ||
In fact the Chela is an unfortunate man who has entered upon “a path not manifest,” and Krishna says that “that is the most difficult path.” | In fact the Chela is an unfortunate man who has entered upon “a path not manifest,” and Krishna says that “that is the most difficult path.” | ||