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 ALTRUISM OCEANIC

Here Vishnu sleeps, there find his foes their rest; The hills have taken refuge; serried lie

Their armies in deep Ocean’s sheltering breast;

The clouds of doom are of his heart possessed, He harbours nether fire whence he must die.

Cherisher of ali in vast equality,

Lo, the wide strong sublime and patient sea!

THE ARYAN ETHIC

Hear the whole Gospel and the Law thereto :— Speak truth, and in wise company abide; Slay lust, thine enemy; abandon pride;

Patience and sweet forgiveness to thee woo;

Set not in sin thy pleasure, but in God;

Follow the path high feet before thee trod;

Give honour to the honourable; conceal Thy virtues with a pudent veil of shame, Yet cherish to the end a stainless fame; Speak sweetness to thy haters and their weal Pursue; show pity to unhappy men, Lift up the fallen, heal the sufferer’s pain.