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can be given in no time. He would require no laboratories, nor stand in need of experiments to learn wisdom about nature's ways. What should he do, then, with himself for the rest of his time, for the rest of all eternity? And how do we know that Gods did not impart knowledge of useful things to men before leaving the world? We have seen that Bharata himself imparted the knowledge of Medicine to the Aryan race. Is a God to be blamed because men are unable to retain what they are taught?
The very essence of Divinity consists in the sense of Freedom. The Gods alone are truly free! They have no work left to be done ; there are no worries; no anxieties, to mar Their immeasurable Peace. No private loves and hatreds remain to sway Them now in one way and again in another. They are at all times filled with such happiness that cannot be rescribed in words. And it is not that They have taken a leap in the dark, or bought a pig in a poke. They have deliberately worked for Their ideal and status, life after life, steadfastly and with unswerving fidelity. They could have gone back at any time, if They did not know that happiness lay that way. As a matter of fact, ascetics feel such joy, when on the higher rungs of the ladder, that they cheerfully endure all kinds of sufferings to attain to
