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only of life, but even of the Ego, the living Soul, may be said to be universally acceptable. Indeed, with just a little care and attention, it can be easily verified by anyone, anywhere. It is this great principle, Life or the Soul, which in all ages has claimed and enchanted the deepest and the sublimest feeling, thought and action of mankind. The great Philosopher has summed up the fact in the aphorism Gnothe seauton Know Thyself.
This is a far-reaching precept. It embraces the Self and Non-self, Soul and the Non-soul, the living and the Non-living. Its horizon is wide and eternal as the Universe. Omniscience is its scope. Its subject-matter includes all the substances with all their infinity of qualities and conditions, of attributes and modifications. Knowledge is Power. Knowledge is diagnosis and cure also. It is the only perennial cure and never-failing remedy to the infinite ills of life. All mankind is weltering in the chaos of pain and misery. Wealth, power, beauty, art, religion, caste, creed, politics all fail to fill the heart of men and women. All fail to drive away the ever present and universal misery of Living beings. All the great prophets, reformers
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