Paramitas of Perfection – Blavatsky Lecture 1987

By Muriel Daw.

37 Pages | Blavatsky Lecture 1987 | Soft cover | The Theosophical Publishing House, London | No ISBN.

" Yea Lord, I see the PATH, its foot in mire, its summits lost in glorious Nirvanic. And now I see the ever narrowing Portals on the hard and thorny way to Jñana " - From: The Voice of Silence , 'The Seven Portals', p.  47.

" . . . O weaver of thy freedom, thou hast to master these Pāramitās of perfection - the virtues transcendental six and ten in number - along the weary path. " - From: The Voice of Silence, 'The Seven Portals', p. 48.

" The six and ten transcendental virtues ", (the Pāramitās), are not for ful-grown yogis and priests alone, but for all those who enter the PATH. " - Written to H.P.B. by her Master, from: Collected Writings 12, p. 598.

Most of us, as students of Theosophy, are already familiair with the second quotation from The Voice of Silence. However, although we may have meditated for years on the first of the transcendental virtues so richly described in THE SEVEN PORTALS, for some of us there remains a burning question: 'Ten Pāramitās are mentioned, what about the other four?

It may be thought perhaps these other four are unimportant, otherwise Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891) would have given us more information about them: but this is not true. In fact, Buddhists call them 'The Four Great Perfections'. They are so important that they are never given to beginners, only to students well advanced along the Way. It should also be noted, that in the Buddhist Scriptures, the Path of the Ten Pāramitās is always linked with the Ten Bhūmis (Stations or Earths) experienced along the Way.