The Fly That Touches Honey

The Progressive Growth Of The Finite Consciousness Of Man Towards This Self, Towards The Universal , The Eternal, The Infinite, In A Word His Growth Into Spiritual Consciousness By The Development Of His Ordinary Ignorant Natural Being Into An Illumined Divine Nature, This Is For Indian Thinking The Significance Of Life And The Aim Of Human Existance.

Thus To Act Under The Guidance Coming From Above, This Is One Side Of The Sadhana, The Dynamic Side. The Other One Is The Discrimination Between The Purusha And The Prakriti. The Purusha Will Calmly Observe, Give Sanction, Choose, But Will Realise That All This Does Not Belong To Him - All These Are Outside Him. This Is The Static Side Of The Sadhana. These Two Aspects Constitute The Basis Of Yoga.

The Existence Of Poverty Is The Proof Of An Unjust And Ill-organised Society, And Our Public Charities Are But The First Tardy Awakening In The Conscience Of A Robber.

Each Religion Has Helped Mankind. Paganism Increased In Man The Light Of Beauty, The Largeness And Height Of His Life, His Aim At A Many-sided Perfection; Christianity Gave Him Some Vision Of Divine Love And Charity; Buddhism Has Shown Him A Noble Way To Be Wiser, Gentler, Purer, Judaism And Islam How To Be Religiously Faithful In Action And Zealously Devoted To God; Hinduism Has Opened To Him The Largest And Profoundest Spiritual Possibilities.

There Are Four Great Events In History, The Siege Of Troy, The Life And Crucifixion Of Christ, The Exile Of Krishna In Brindaban And The Colloquy On The Field Of Kurukshetra. The Siege Of Troy Created Hellas, The Exile In Brindaban Created Devotional Religion, (for Before There Was Only Meditation And Worship), Christ From His Cross Humanized Europe, The Colloquy At Kurukshetra Will Yet Liberate Humanity.