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towards the goal, and, as such, is called moral. That definition, you will find, holds good in every religion and every system of ethics. In some; systems of thought, morality is derived from a Superior Being—God. If you ask why a man ought to do this and not that, their answer is, "Because such is the command of God.” But. whatever be the source from which it is derived, their code of ethics also has the same central idea—not to think of self but to give up self. And yet same persons, in spite of this high ethical idea, are frightened at the thought of having to. give up their little personalities. We may ask the man who clings to the idea of little personalities to consider the case of a person who has become perfectly unselfish, who has no thought for himself, who does no deed for himself, who speaks no word: for himself, and then say where his "himself” is. That "himself” is known to him only so long as he thinks, acts or speaks. for himself.... If he is only conscious of others, .ól the universe, and of the all, where is his." himself"?. It is gone for ever.
