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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

world or by its suffering. The ecstasy of
the divine embrace will not abandon him
because he obeys the impulse of divine
love for God in humanity; or if it seems to
draw back from him for a while, he knows
by experience that it is to try and test him
still farther so that some imperfection in
his own way of meeting it may fall away
from him. Personal salvation he does not
seek except as a necessity for the human
fulfilment and because he who is himself in
bonds cannot easily free others, — though
to God nothing is impossible; for a heaven
of personal joys he has no hankerings even
as a hell of personal sufferings has for him
no terrors. If there is an opposition between
the spiritual life and that of the world, it
is that gulf which he is here to bridge, that
opposition which he is here to change into a
and selfishness, however spiritual in their harmony. If the world is ruled by the flesh
guise or trend, he can have no dealings; a and the devil, all the more reason that the
divine strength and courage and a divine children of Immortality should be here to
compassion and helpfulness are the very conquer it for God and the Spirit. If life is
stuff of that which he would be, they are an insanity, then there are so many million
that very nature of the Divine which he souls to whom there must be brought the
would take upon himself as a robe of light of divine reason; if a dream, yet is it
spiritual light and beauty. The revolvings real within itself to so many dreamers who
of the great wheel bring to him no sense must be brought either to dream nobler
of terror or giddiness; he rises above it dreams or to awaken; or if a lie, then the
in his soul and knows from above their truth has to be given to the deluded. Nor, if
divine law and their divine purpose. The it be said that only by the luminous example
difficulty of harmonising the divine life of escape from the world can we help the
with human living, of being in God and world, shall we accept that dogma, since
yet living in man is the very difficulty that the contrary example of great Avataras is
he is set here to solve and not to shun. He there to show that not only by rejecting the
has learned that the joy, the peace and the life of the world as it is can we help, but
deliverance are an imperfect crown and also and more by accepting and uplifting
no real possession if they do not form a it. And if it is a play of the All-Existence,
state secure in itself, inalienable to the soul, then we may well consent to play out our
not dependent on aloofness and inaction part in it with grace and courage, well take
but firm in the storm and the race and the delight in the game along with our divine
battle, unsullied whether by the joy of the Playmate (5).”

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