Ideal of Karmayogin

Author(s): Aurbindo Ghose
Publisher: Prabartak Publishing House

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THE STRESS OF THE HIDDEN
SPIRIT.
THE world is a great game of hide and 1 seek, in which the real hides behind
the apparent, spirit behind matter. The apparent masquerades as real, the eal is seen dimly as if it were an unsubsantial shadow. The grandeur of the isible universe and its laws enslaves Den's imaginations. "This is a mighty nachine," we cry, “but it moves of its 'wn force and needs neither guide nor naker; for its motion is eternal.” Blinded 'y a half truth we fail to see that, instead f a machine without a maker, there is cally only an existence and no machine. he Hindus have many images by which hey seek to convey their knowledge of
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