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 "Brahma-Vihara" and the harmony betwixt earth and heaven. We seem, as we listen to him, to be passing out of a great town—symbol of our crowded civilisation—on a summer morning, and looking up into a concave of sky which watches for the pure eyes of Sita below it. The vessel receives the pure element according to its depth of innocence. "Where the sight has passed into the void, there is the real personality of the eye." "If the eye is satisfied, the sun is satisfied; if the sun is satisfied, heaven is satisfied." So with the innocence of the eye (to use Ruskin's phrase), and with the heart of a child, one can enter into the joy of the four regions and conquer the worlds.

In his fifth discourse Rabindranath brings his series of realisations to a period with his pages on the mystery of love. "Who could have breathed or moved if the sky were not filled with joy, with love?" The soul is on pilgrimage: it is travelling from the law, which assigns its relative place in the moral order, to love, which is its moral freedom. Buddha named this infinite love Brahma-Vihara—"the joy of living in Brahma." And he taught that whoever would attain to it must purge himself