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of the whole being to God. Itis not merely a passive submission, but an active self-giving ; not only a seeing and an accepting of the divine will in all things, but a giving up of one’s own will to be the instrument of the Master of works, and this not with the lesser idea of being a servant of God, but, eventually at least, of such a complete renunciation both of the consciousness and the works to him that our being becomes one with his being and the impersonalised nature only an instru- ment and nothing else. All result good or bad, pleasing or unpleasing, fortunate or unfortunate, is accepted as belonging to the Master of our actions, so that finally not only are grief and suffering borne, but they are banished: a perfect equality of the emotional mind is established. There is no assumption of personal will in the instrument ; itis seen that all is already worked out in the omniscient prescience and omnipotent eftect- ive power of the universal Divine and that the egoism of men cannot alter the workings of that Will. There- fore, the final attitude is that enjoined on Arjuna in a later chapter, “All has been already done by Me in my divine will and foresight; become only the occasion, O Arjuna,” mimitta-mdtram bhava savyasichin. This at- titude must lead finally to an absolute union of the per- sonal with the Divine Will and, with the growth of know- ledge, bring about a faultless response of the instrument to the divine Power and Knowledge. A perfect, an absolute equality of self-surrender, the mentality a passive channel of the divine Light and Power, the act. ive being a mightily eftective instrument for its work in the world, will be the poise of this supreme union of the Transcendent, the universal and the individual.