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conceived as anything apart from Nature. When you believe that the great forces of Nature-the Sun and the Moon, the planets and stars, and the great cleinents-Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth,--act blindly, without purpose, without law, with evil in. tent, and that their end is death--you do not, cannot. believe in God. But if you agree that there is a conscious purpose and a deliborate will acting through these great forces of Nature, that they act in accordance with a universal Law, intelligently and for universal good,--and that their end is life for evermore renewed-you believe in God.
MAHAVIR-Then, how is it that cven those who believe
in God are found so oflen to change ?
KRISHNA- There are inoments in the life of a man, when
he becomes weary or weak, when he grows sick of life, when he loses faith in Goodness or Happiness, and forgets his God. But when he tries to think and understand, he comes to believe in God again. There is no one who believes in Goodness, Intelligence, or Happiness, and can refuse to believe in God as I have explained to you. This is the ancient idea of Sacrifice,-an action which is conscious, deliberate, and self-controlled, which is devoid of self-interest, and meant for the benefit of all,---making for universal Happiness, And when the idea of Sacrifice is associated with Nature, it transforms it into God. There is God when an act
