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CONCLUSION another day, it was not a running about seeking and searching for aims, it was not a turning about looking for a purpose ; for the whole was designedly done, the purpose was recognized and the aim was known. In him there was no trace of wavering, no shadow of doubting. Slowly and slowly did he come to acquire wider knowledge; slowly and slowly did he come to understand that there was a better and a higher life, that there was a great scheme and that man was an important part of that scheme. Realizing this, and realizing the splendour and the glory of the plan, he immediately resolves to become an intelligent part of it; be resolves to take his place in it, not merely as a straw that is swept along by a storm, but rather as one who has understood and recognized his share in the mighty work that is being done.
A LONG AND LIVING SACRIFICE As soon as he gains the glimpse of the real amid the fleeting, of the permanent amid the transitory, he leaves his parents and friends, he leaves his home and his native place, he leaves his pleasures and his comforts, and enters forthwith within the gateway of the glorious Temple, which shuts him out for ever from all earthly objects, from all the interests of the lower world, save that of Service; which separates him from all human desires, save as he works for the helping of the world, for the helping of Humanity. To him the law of sacrifice has now become the law of life, and he voluntarily associates himself with it, in order that he may
