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mising cleavage of church and laity, or, in the north, the world of folk-fed monks has become, not the buttress only of a folk-fed monarchy, but the very monarchy itself.
In a minute I have done, but I would still speak frankly. It is for creeds of to-day-old creeds, but sheltering much new-will,to bring themselves to exercise that new will, with reference to initial mistakes, in two ways. Where they as yet countenance, where they as yet respect, as institution, or only in idea, the ascetic, the monk,-here the new will bids them seek man's forgiveness for those old hindering errors by an earnest repudiation of them. To do otherwise is to cut themselves off from new worldwill. It is to will old world-will in imitating an old dead world. The world is not as it was. We can now see better what life is, whither it is taking us, what we most need. We are without excuse, if we are ever looking backward and saying: Then this was held to be right; it must be right now. Never was argument less binding on man than that. Into our hands have come at our birth treasures of the new world: the expansion of the world, the will to win to the truth about the worlds, the race-fellowship with so much of the world,-with the whole of the Aryan world-and world citizenship, awaiting our entrance upon it, with all the world. It is with a life worthy of that citizenship that we have to do and not with a little cluster of unclothed men in a corner of the dim past, overmuch concerned each with his own unworthy past. Gone for ever, in that wider fellowship, is the unwise worsening, by those earnest little men and by their unwise followers, of the word deed,' action. It was not honest wording. How shall we advance without action-the three fold action of limbwork, speech and will? The ideal of Not-doing belongs to that besetting weakness in Indian cults-the weakness of all ascetic, monkish cults-in both East and West of naming the good by 'disnaming' the bad. The new Will teaches just the opposite. Its new methods of healing say: 'Dwell not upon your disease. To think about fosters Dwell upon, word with system, your getting better, your werden towards well. Think on health.' Now India had only a negative word for health. It was not a healthy symptom. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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