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Belief In Karma Ought To Make The Life Pure, Strong, Serene And Glad. Only Our Own Deeds Can Hinder Us; Only Our Own Will Can Fetter Us. Once Let Men Recognize This Truth, And The Hour Of Their Liberation Has Struck. Nature Cannot Enslave The Soul That By Wisdom Has Gained Power And Uses Both In Love.

The World, With All Its Beauty, Its Happiness And Suffering, Its Joys And Pains, Is Planned With The Utmost Ingenuity, In Order That The Powers Of The Self May Be Shown Forth In Manifestation.

The Soul Which Is Approaching Its' Liberation, As It Looks Back Over Past Lives... Down The Vistas Of The Centuries Along Which It Has Slowly Been Climbing,... Is Able To See There The Way In Which The Bonds Were Made, The Causes Which Set It In Motion. It Is Able To See How Many Of Those Causes Have Worked Themselves Out And... How Many... Are Still Working Themselves Out.

The Highest Hindu Intellectual Training Was Based On The Practice Of Yoga, And Produced, As Its Fruit, Those Marvellous Philosophical Systems, The Six Darshanas And The Brahma Sutras, Which Are Still The Delight Of Scholars And The Inspiration Of Occultists And Mystics.

Never Forget That Life Can Only Be Nobly Inspired And Rightly Lived If You Take It Bravely And Gallantly, As A Splendid Adventure In Which You Are Setting Out Into An Unknown Country, To Face Many A Danger, To Meet Many A Joy, To Find Many A Comrade, To Win And Lose Many A Battle.