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Rh We have, before we can proceed further, to gather up all that has been said in its main principles. The whole of the Gita’s gospel of works rests upon its idea of sacrifice und contains in fact the eternal connecting truth of God and the world and works. The human mind seizes ordinarily only fragmentary notions and stand- points of a manysided eternal truth of existence and butlds upon them its various theories of life and ethics and religion, stressing this or that sign or appearance, but to some entirety of it it must alwaystend to re- awaken whenever it returns in an age of large enlighten- ment to any entire and synthetic relation of its world-knowledge with its God - knowledge and self- knowledge. The gospel of the Gita reposes upon this fundamental Vedantic truth that all being is the one " Brahman and all existence the wheel of Brahman, a divine movement opening out from God and returning to God. All is the expressive activity of Nature and Nature a power of the Divine which works out the consciousness and will of the divine Soul master of her wokksandinhabitant of her forms. It is for his satisfaction that she descends into the absorption of- the forms of things and the works of life and mind and returns again through mind and self-knowledge to the conscious possession of the Soul that dwells within her. There is first an involving of self and all itis or means in an evolution of phenomena ; there is afterwards an evo- lution of self, a revelation of all it is and means, all that is hidden and yet suggested by the phenomenal creation,