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381 is revealed, we seek to drop off. On a miniature sea lei that is the experience of every Divine soul. Jesus has his Peter who says one day, ‘Come what may, I stand,’ and the next day, ‘I am no follower of his.’

We save our outer coverings, allowing the soul to be corrupted. They are people of a higher order to whom the soul is the inner gem and the body a mere covering. Unto them the inner gem is all in all. The inner soul is the piercing light which cannot be clouded. That is the difference between a firm soul and a faltei’ing spirit. Unto one like Bapaiya, the soul is the essential thing, while the skin is the outer covering and the body a temporary receptacle; and as long as there is the gem within, it must shed its lustre in all directions. ‘Love me, love my cause, love my prosperity’ is the world’s motto. ‘Love for its own sake’ is the motto of great men. They make love supreme and universal; and we make it subsidiary and individual. They stand up for the. triumph of truth and love but not, like us, for that of a certain cause or party.