HUMAN PERSONALITY SHAKING ITS LION-MANE

There is no cure for human suffering outside of man, as suffering is an inner ailment of the spirit. All joy is the health of the Spirit. All outer conditions stand their oppressions. This inward strength comes from the regions of inspiration. Without this help coming from within, the outer world is the world of enemies; the stars and the sky combine to reduce man to an amorphous power. Man is a dust flying after the chariot wheel of Time, unless he realizes himself and stands against the very elements, and by his love, tames them all, as he tames the wild animals to be his companions.

Mere systems of education, the mere routine experience of life, the mere analysis of human nature and its undertakings, do not impart this inner knowledge. Ethics too cast the human personality into a life-long prison. Genius is truly the gift of Heaven and a true genius turns its gaze inward upon itself. This state of the life self-realization is akin to immortality in the flesh. We wait with bated breath for the coming of even a single man of such power. And when he comes, we give up our hearths and homes and follow him. “Follow me and ye shall have everlasting life,” he declares. With this great renunciation comes to us, this apparent life and death of ours have thenceforward equal value. We then believe that there is a golden region beyond the ken of knowledge, where there is no pain of dual passion, no suffering of ignorance, no chaining of illusions, where the weary and the heavy-laden are truly comforted. There, only there, the right balance is struck, and no one is a loser. All are forgiven in the cosmic compassion, and everyone is made supremely felicitous within himself.