Here or Elsewhere.

It is easy and comfortable to go within and in an inner consciousness find and maintain a union, even a close union with the Divine. It is because of such a state of peace and bliss that many, nay, most who go there do not want to come back, to normal life upon this earth. And teachers great and small have taught that it is best like that, and perhaps the only thing to do under the circumstances. For this life and this earth mean the very opposite of that inner heaven and that highest good. But some are not given this comfortable solution of the difficulty. they are asked to turn back and live the life of the earth, add to the experience of the tranquil above the experience of the trouble below. surely in increases the scope of their consciousness. but to turn upon the world means also to re-enter into ignorance, for this world means ignorance, the role is once more to embrace ignorance, but with a view to bringing into it the light and bliss that he gained from above, permeating the stuff of the present world with the substance of the higher consciousness. It is a sacrifice demanded of him, thus to abandon the eternal felicity of the high heavens the unbroken union with the Divine and to enter into the depths of this great perilous world. But for them this is a privilege too, to bring solace to the afflicted, the transforming light to the obscure souls, the radiant energy to inert earth. It is a high privilege for which the luminous soul is thankful; He modestly accepts the gift of grace from the supreme. his role is that of a modest intermediary. (A)