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Rh calm universal love, sympathy, compassion, but for the hands freedom to work out impersonally the good, not'of this or that person only without regard to or to the detri- ment of the divine plan, but the purpose of the creation, the progressing welfare and salvation of men, the total good of all existences.

Oneness with God, oneness with all beings, the rea- lisation of the eternal divine unity everywhere and the drawing onwards of men towards that oneness are the "law of life which arises from the teachings of the Gita. There can be none greater, wider, more profound. Liberated oneself, to live in this oneness, to help man- kind on the path that leads towards it and meanwhile to do all works for God and help man also to do with joy and acceptance all the works to which he is called, kr'itsna-karma-kv'it, sarvakarmadni joshayan, no greater or more liberal rule of divine works can be given. This freedom and this oneness are the secret goal of our human nature and the ultimate will in the existence of the race. It is that to which it must turn for the happiness all mankind is now vainly seeking, when once men left their eyes and their hearts to see the Divine in them and around, in all and everywhere, sarveshu, sarvatva, and learn that it is in him they live, while this lower nature of division is only a prison-wall which they must break down or at best an infant-school which they must outgrow, so that they may become adult in nature and free in spirit. To be made one self with God above and God in man and God in the world is the sense of liberation and the secret of perfection.