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 come 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