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268 having no need at all in the world, yet he does works always and is present everywhere supporting, helping, guiding the labour of creatures. This equality is found- ed fipon oneness with all beings. It brings in what is wanting to the philosophic equality ; for its soul is the soul of peace, but also it is the soul of love. It sees all beings without exception in the Divine, it is one self with the self of all existences and therefore it is in supreme sympathy with all of them. Without exception, ageshena, not only with all that is good and fair and pleases ; nothing and no one, however vile, fallen, crimi- nal, repellent in appearance, can be excluded from this universal, this whole-souled sympathy and spiritual oneness. Here there isnoroom, not merely for hatred or anger or uncharitableness, but for aloofness, disdain or any petty pride of superiority. A divine compassion for the ignorance of the struggling mind, a divine will to pour forth on it all light and power and happiness there will be, indeed, for the apparent man ; but for the divine soul within him there will be more, there will be adoration and love. For from all, from the thief and the harlot and the outcaste as from the saint and the sage, the Beloved looks forth and cries to us, “This is I.” “He who loves Me in all beings,” —what greater word of power for the utmost intensities and profundities of divine and universal love, has been attered by any philosophy or any religion?

Resignation is the basis of a kind of religious equal- ity, submission to the divine will, a patient bearing of the cross, a submissive forbearance. In the Gita this element takes the more ample form of an entire surrender