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Rh The kinetic man is not satistied with any ideal which does not depend upon the fulfilment of this cos- mic nature, this play of the three qualities of that nature, this human activity of mind and heart and body. The highest fulfilment of that activity, he might say, ts my idea of human perfection, of the divine possibility in man ; some ideal that satisfies the intellect, the heart, the moral” being, some ideal of our human naturen its action can alone satisfy the human being; he must have something that he can seek in the workings of his mind and life and body. For thatis his nature, his dharma, and how can he be fulfilled in something ou%- side his nature ? for to his nature each beingis bound and within it he must seek {or his perfection. Accord- ing to our human nature must be our hyman perfec- tion ; and each man inust strive for it according to the line of his personality, his swadharma, but in life, in action, not outside life and action. Yes, there is a truth in that, replies the Gita ; the fulfilment of God in man, the play of the Divine in life is part of the ideal ‘ pertection. But if yon seek it only in the external, in life, in the principle of action, ycu will never find it; for you will then not only act according to your nature, which isin itself a rule of perfection, but you will be —and this is a rule of the imperfection—eternally sub- ject to its modes, its dualities of liking and dislike, pain and pleasure and especially to the rajasic mode with its principle of desire and its snare of wrath and grief and longing,—the restless, all-devouring principle of desire, the insatiable fire which besieges your worldly action, the eternal enemy of knowledge @ which it is covered over here in your nature as is a fire by smoke or a