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ESSAYS ON THE GITA

of their happiness and sorrow by which he is not himself affected or subjected. The perfect sage, the Gita more than once repeats, is everengaged with a large equality in doing good to all creatures and makes that his occupation and delight, sarvabhiita-hite vatah. The perfect Yogin is no solitary musing on the Self in his ivory tower of spiri- tual isolation, but, yukiah kvishna-karma-krit, a many- sided universal worker for the good of the world, for God in the wotld. For he is a bkakia, a lover and devotee of the Divine, as well as a sage and a Yogin, a lover who loves God wherever he finds Him and who finds Him every- where ; and what he loves, he does not disdain to serve, nor does action carry him away from the bliss of union, since all his acts proceed from the One in him and to the One in all they are directed. The equality of the - Gita is a large synthetic equality in which allis lifted up into the integrality of the divine being and the divine nature.