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in the world. God is the principle of goodness, intelligence, and happiness in the world; and if we do not believe in him, we destroy the basis of our own existence; and, if we are sincere, must put an end to 'our life as soon as possiblc. If we wish to live, we must believe in him both as within and without the universe, both as a spectator and an actor, as law and love. He is unborn, eternal, beyond thought; and yet he lives and creates in the midst of Nature, is immeasurably good, has no self-interest in anything, and is supremely happy. He is Sat-chit-ananda - a Person, a Truth, a Reality, without whom Man cannot live. When we think of him in relation to Nature, we transform Nature itself into God by associating with it the idea of Sacrifice. There is God wlien a man performs an act of Sacrifice: and God ceases to exist when Man
denies Goodness or Sacrifice in the world. MIRA--Who taught you this? I have heard it
somewhere before. Was it in that dream ? How wonderful ! You were there too. Do you remember those lines?
I wander in quest of thee, O Lord,
I wander in quest of thee ! I repeated them before I went to sleep, and then I saw something, and was lost in the wonder of his eyes. They were soft and deep like the throbbing noon-day sky, when it is unruffled by the wind. They had the glory of the sun and the gentleness of
