husband undertakes to promote the welfare of the wife, religion can never prosper; there is no hope for religion. Sensuous pleasures, in their essence, are strictly speaking religion, but the mode of realizing religion, involved in them. may be compared to getting a peep into the Durbar through the grating of a dirty gutter. Gods laugh in their sleeves at our concessions and courtesies. 0 how ridiculous perjuries we commit in trying to be faithful to our distant neighbour. Threats and punishments never prevented sin Crimes are called by many names, matricide, homicide, and the like, but by not feeling the Divinity within each and all, you commit the crime of Godcidc or Deicide. Moral pauperism is produced by giving precepts. The world thinks, most religions believe, and many moralists practically advocate, that precepts and rules will cure matters. Never ! Never H Never!!! Sometimes moral weakness passed by the name of purity, just as attachment assumes the name of love. Purity of heart does not simply mean abstaining from conjugal sins, it means that; but it means a great deal more. Your soul is not impure and sinful by nature, it has not fallen through the sin of one man, and does not depend upon the virtue of another man to Save it. Let people differ from you, let them subject you to all sorts of difficulties, let them revile you, but despite their favours and frowns, their threats and promises, from the lake of your mind there should flow nothing but divine, infinitely pure fresh water, Nectar should flow out of you, so that it may become as impossible for you to think evil as for the pure fresh spring to poison those who drink from it. Here is a divine law which should be proclaimed on all corners and all bazars. Try to throw dust into
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