Book Title: Karmayogi
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________________ KARMOYGOIN.. the develop the intellect tends intellectual self which was involved in A TASK UNACCOMPLISHED to djwpol and it assumes therefore in the body and overclouded by the depires all-important place in brman evolution. of the prand. In the laoguage of the There is no question so wtal to the But it is not only through the intel: Upanishads the manahkosha sad the future of this nation as the spirit in leat that man rises. If the clarified intel buddhiksha are more than the front which we are to set about the regeneraTest is not suported by purified kosha and annakosha and it is to them tion of our national life. Either India mnotions, the intellect ands to be do- that man rises in his evolution. lieli- is rising again to fulfil the function for minated once more by the body and to put giod farther seeks a higher term for our which her past national life and devlopitself at its service and the lordship of the evolution than the purified emotions or ment seem to have prepared her, a by or the whole man becomes more the clarified activity of the obserring leader of thought and faith, a defender dangerous than in the natural state be. and reflecting intellect. The highest of spiritual truth and experience des cause the ianocence of the natural state term of evolution is the spirit in which tined to correct the conclusions of is lost. The power of knowledge is placed knowledge, love and action, the threefold materialistic Science by the higher at the disposal of the senses, surttua serves dharma of humanity, find their fulfil Science of which she has the secret tamas, the god in us becomes the glare of ment and end. This is the atman in the and in that power to influence the world's tho brute. The disservice which scienti anandakosha, and it is by communion civilisation, or she is rising as a faithful Ar Materialism is unintentionally doing and identity of this individual self pupil of Europe, a follower of methods the world is to encrage & return to this with the universal self which is God that and ideas borrowed from the West, a cddition, the suddenly awakensi 18-man will become entirely pure, entirely copyist of English politics and society. As of men, un accustomed to deal intellec- strong, entirely wise and entirely bliss. In the one case her aspiration must be tually with ideas, able to grasp the ful, and the evolution will be fulfilled. great, her faith unshakeable, her efforts hrad attractive innovatious of free thou. The conquest of the body and the vital self and sacrifices such as to command the ght but unable to appreciate its delicate by the purification of the emotions and admiration of the world; in the other terrations, verge towards that reeling the clarification of the intellect was the no such greatness of soul is needed or back into the beast, that relapse into principal work of the past. The purifica- possible ;-a cautious, slow and gradual barbarisin which was the condition of tion has been done by morality and reli- progress involving no extraordinary the Roman Empire at a high ntage of aa gion, the clarification by science and effort and no unusual sacrifices is suthterial civilisation and intellectuual cult. philosophy, art, literature and social cient for and end so small. In the one Tim and which a distinguisheil British and political life being the chief niedis Cilse her destiny is to be a gonation stateinan declared the other day to he in which these uplifting forces have remoulding and leading the civilisation the condition to which all Europe appro. work. The conquest of the enotions of the world, in the other it is to be a Ah. The desclopment of the emotions and the intellect by the spirit is the subordinate part of the British Empire is therefore the first condition of a work of the future. Yngs is the means sharing in the social life, the political * mind human evolutiva Unless the feel by which that dunquest becomes possi- privileges, the intellectual ideals and atin s tend away from the body and the ble. tainments of the Anglo-Celtic race. These los of others takos increasingly the plan o'th bruto live of sell there an In Ynge the whole past progress of are the two ideals before us, and an ideal 1,9 1. pr.gress upward. T'he argraisation humanity, * progress which it holds on is not mere breath, it is a thing comof human city tends to develop the a very uncertain lens pelling which determines the spirit of is rapidly grim. altruistic element in in which makes w our action and often fixes the method. up, antirmed and are an inalienfor life and little with and conquers ablo p osuion. The body is conquered, No policy can be successful which does not take into view - III not invertortly as by the ordinary civi. the end to be w I is therefore not the #rela for lite, or at least not the lized man hitt entirely. The vital part attained and the amount and nature of rely for the effort needed to effect it. r The wn lit, is purified but made the instrument of the wrzzle for th. 1.fo if others the higher emotional and intellectual | leader of industry who enters on a which is the mist important term self in its relations with th: outer world. commercial enterprise, first looks at the in aviation-rout.children, for our by ideas which youtward are replaced magnitude of his field and intended family, for our 1943. fororoonmunity, The the ideas which more within the output and cquips himself with capital and plant accordingly, and even if he for w racant nation, for humanity. ! bager quilities are worked out of the An over cannot commence at once on the scale bulering self takwth place of min and replaced by thoue which are 114 old narrow kell which is conful to higher, the lower einations are crowded of his ideal he holds it in view himself, utir individul muntland Iwdy and it out by the nobler. Finally all ideas puts it before the public in issuing his in this miral growth whicla society his aud motions are stilled and by the per prospectus and estimating the capital and organises. feet awakening of the intuitive reason necessary, and all the practical steps Mc So far there is little esantini diir. wheb places mind in communion with takes are conceived in the light of his enn betwionour own ideas of human spirit spirit the Whemin 18 the while man is ultimately mately original aspiration and ordered towards progress and th of the West except in place at the service of the Infinite. All its achievement. So it is with the this vital print out the What believex folo self merces into the true Self. Man political ventures of a nation. To this evolution to be a development of acquires likeness, union or identification place before himself a great object and, r and the satisfaction of the reason, with Od. This is mukti, the state in then to shrink in the name of expedienth: reflective and observing intellect, to which hunsnity throughly realises the cy from the expenditure and sacrifice be the highest term of our progress freedom and inmortality which are its called for in its pursuit is not prudence Here it is that our religion parts com fernal goal. but ineptitude. If you will be prudent, pany with Science. It declares the evo. be prudent from the beginning. Fix lution to be a conquest of matter by the your object low and creep towards it. out if you fix your ob cet in the skies, Toorory of the deeper valotional aud m

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