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KARMA YOGA
life finds its most potent expression in the man who lives the ordinary life of men in the strength of the Yoga and under the law of the Vedanta. It is by such an union of the inner life and the outer that mankind will eventually be lifted up and he come mighty and divine. It is a delusion tu suppose that Vedanta contains no inspiration to life, no rule of conduct, and is purely metaphysical and quietistic. On the contrary, the highest morality of which humanity is capable finds its one perfect basis and justification in the teachings of the Upanishads and the Gita. The characteristic doctrines of the Gita are nothing it they are not a law of life, a dharma, and even the most transcendental aspirations of the Vedanta presuppose a preparation in lise, for it is only through life that one can reach to immortality. The opposite opinion is due to certain tendencies which have bulked large in the history and temperament of our race. The ultimate goal of our religion is emancipation from
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